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“I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.”

“I went to an art high school in Washington D.C., and I majored in visual art. When I started there, I was horrible - couldn't draw, couldn't sketch, couldn't do anything. I remember at one point I came to terms with the fact that I had to work my ass off to do well and that's exactly what I did. I drew and drew and drew, and it worked - I ended up getting the award for best artist and went on to apply to design school because I loved it so much. I think it really speaks to the idea that you can in fact excel at whatever you put your mind and your heart to.”

Thinking Mind Heart Art School Remember Artist Speak Term Design High School Horrible Ass Visual Art Best Artist

Author:Njena Reddd Foxxx

“I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if thats what youd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.”

Ifs Years Firsts Art School Saws New York Fine Eight East Village Brooklyn Fine Arts Art School East Village

Author:Bill Griffith

“I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!”

Thinking Art Stills Kids School Given Black Land Drama Training Visuals Dancer Nightmare This Day Art School Visual Art Tights Wearing Black

Author:Jake Epstein

“I went to an auction in the late '70s and bought a small Renoir. People said, "Why did you buy a Renoir that size?" I said, "I can put it in the safe with my diamonds." And that was a true story. I bought it to put it in the safe.”

People Diamond True Story

Author:Laurence Graff

“I went to an audition the other day, they were casting 13 people to be clouds, 14 people showed up, it was overcast.”

People Clouds Auditions Casting Overcast

Author:Jay London

“I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.”

Black College Limitation

Author:Terrence J

“I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.”

Persons Different Reason Home School Actors Challenges Cities Careers New York Ordinary My Family New York City Family Life

Author:Brooke Shields

“I went to Annapolis for tougher laws to hold cops accountable. I'm fighting to bring back the trust between the police and the community.”

Law Fighting Community Police Cop Annapolis

Author:Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

“I went to Art College and during the summer I made a movie with my brother. I got hold of a little camera, wrote a script and dragged my brother, Tony, out of bed to help me (which he did not like), so that we could shoot a film every day for six weeks. It was made for £65 and it was called Boy On A Bicycle.”

Littles Art Made Helping Film Boys Week College Brother Bed Six Summer Cameras Scripts My Brother Help Me Bicycle

Author:Ridley Scott

“I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.”

Art School High School Photographer Painter

Author:David LaChapelle

“I went to art school actually when I was sixteen years old.”

Years Art School Sixteen Art School Sixteen Year Olds

Author:David Hockney

“I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace it and run with it for as long as you can, and I did. I did that for as long as I felt I could.”

Long Art Running School Felt Stuff Band Embrace Come Up Art School

Author:Gerard Way

“I went to art school and never thought I'd be a musician, but then punk rock came along in the late 70s and kind of ruined my life. So I quit art school to get involved in music and I've been doing it ever since.”

Kind Art School Rocks Involved Late Musician Quitting Punk Ruined Get Involved Punk Rock I Quit Art School

Author:Michael Gira

“I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family who didn't have the funds to say, "Here, kid. Here's your money for school." So I worked real hard during the summer and saved money and was able to go to school for a year and borrowed a little money which I paid back after that first year.”

“I went to art school for fine art and then I started doing performance art, and then I started making fun of performance art, and it turned into comedy.”

Art School Fun Comedy Fine Performances Fine Arts Art School Performance Art

Author:Mary Lynn Rajskub

“I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.”

Years Art Whole Wanted School Plans College Masters Development Green Architecture Chicago Construction Sustainable Development Art School Columbia Business School

Author:Nico Tortorella

“I went to art school when I was little.”

Littles Art School Art School

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.”

Knows Littles Art School Energy Too Much Lessons Singing Balls Obsessed Kicks Ballet Art School

Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.”

Ifs Looks Art School Difficult Break Painting Duty Draws Female Exciting Western Males Upset Friday Taboo Tuesday Art School

Author:Peter Greenaway

“I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.”

Art Wanted School Band Art School Internships

Author:Gerard Way

“I went to art school, but I didn't last because in those days you couldn't take comics as a course. And they weren't even teaching you to draw real things, they were really into abstracts, and I was not into abstracts, so art school and I did not work out.”

Art Real School Lasts Courses Teaching Draws Work Out Real Things Art School

Author:Trina Robbins

“I went to art school, I think it helped me a great deal because it taught me who I am.”

Thinking Art School Deals Taught Who I Am Art School

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“I went to art school... but I worked at the Museum of Modern Art. I worked in fundraising at the information membership desk. I ended up, over a period of time, doubling the amount of membership revenue that came in through people entering the museum, so people would ask me to come and work for them.”

People Art School Asks Modern Information Amount Periods Ask Me Museums Desks Entering Revenue Membership Art School Modern Art Fundraising

Author:Jeff Koons

“I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'”

Knows Littles Said Village Do You Know Mice Mickey Bali Small Villages

Author:Matt Groening

“I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.”

Years Whole School Happened Performances Nine Agents Ballet Auditions Visiting Nine Years

Author:Sarah Sutton

“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.”

Thinking Stills Faces Night Felt Sleep Heard Middle Cry Bed Rain Window Dry Slips Weeping Middle Of The Night Dripping Night Thinking

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I went to bed feeling melancholy, wishing I could have poured out all my fears and insecurities to my mom. Wasn’t that what normal mothers and daughters did?”

Feelings Mother Wish Mom Bed Normal Daughter My Mom Insecurity Melancholy Mother And Daughter

Author:Richelle Mead

Source: Bloodlines

“I went to bed hungry many nights as a child. It was a Dream that dressed me up when I was ragged, and it was a Dream that filled me up when I was hungry. Now it's my Dream to see that no child in this world ever goes hungry, certainly not here in America, the most bountiful country in the world. We can do better...we must!”

World Children Country Dream America Night Can Do This World Bed Filled Hunger Hungry World Hunger Ragged Ending Hunger Hunger Awareness Hunger In America

Author:Dolly Parton

“I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just as happy as I could be. No one can ever accuse me of being a pessimist! If I had a husband and twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day, I'd bob up smilingly the next morning and commence to look for another set. ~Jershua Abbott”

Ifs Thinking Looks Children Character Lasts Beautiful Night Next Morning Amount One Day Bed Husband Planning Thrown Plot Twelve Bob Last Night Earthquakes Pessimist Dejected

Author:Jean Webster

Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated

“I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam!― they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent.”

Relationships Boys Behavior Ya Richelle Goodrich Richelle E Goodrich Richelle Crying

Author:Richelle E. Goodrich

Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

“I went to Beijing for the Olympics and was literally right across the track from Usain Bolt. And when he gets to full stride, for every two steps the other guy's taking, he's just taking one.”

Two Guy Steps Track Olympics Other Guys Bolts Stride Beijing

Author:Wendell Pierce

“I went to Bergdorf Goodman as an assistant in the fashion office and that was really my first exposure into the world of retail. Dawn Mello was president at the time and she had just left Gucci where she found Tom Ford.”

World Firsts Found Left President Fashion Office Dawn Toms Exposure Assistants Retail Gucci Goodman Bergdorf Goodman

Author:Roopal Patel

“I went to Berlin and Warsaw and Kraków to do research. Right after we got started, I had already booked this trip, so I went. Seeing the history and the posters, and hearing from the guy certain phrases and words and images, it's stunning how much they're playing from the handbook of the little mustache that isn't Chaplin. With Rudy Giuliani as Mussolini.”

Littles Guy Certain Seeing Research Hearing Phrases Berlin Posters Stunning Mustache Chaplin Rudy Warsaw

Author:Joss Whedon

“I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I lived in total absence of culture. I come from a house where there was nothing like reading or art.”

Years Art Culture Reading House Half Absence Berlin

Author:Lea Seydoux

“I went to boarding school and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.”

People Knows School Certain Easy Know How Groups Ordinary Ordinary Life Oxford

Author:Mark Haddon

“I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.”

School Seven Cried

Author:Rupert Everett

“I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.”

School Left Religious Southern

Author:Chris Hughes

“I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.”

College Catholic Yeah Jew Boston Nicknames

Author:Gary Gulman

“I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great - tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Cant complain; the food is great.”

People Feels Song Skins Complaining Beach Hanging Out Chill Cant Brazil Great Women

Author:Theophilus London

“I went to Brazil, and you get on the ground and you see it, and you could tell the government was in trouble two years ago. This was just going to sweep the government aside, and it was a force you could feel. Brexit, the same thing.”

Feels Years Two Government Force Trouble Years Ago Two Years Brazil Two Years Ago

Author:Ken Moelis

“I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.”

Shows Fun My Own Ready Spots Guests Broadway Glee Entourage

Author:John Stamos

“I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.”

Children Beautiful Girl Three Dark College Hair Mets Married Brilliant Brooklyn Exotic Dark Hair

Author:Dominic Chianese

“I went to Brunel University and very much wanted to go on to do a PhD in management, but then my acting career started to take off. In those days when you switched on the box there were hardly any brown or black faces.”

Wanted Faces Black Acting Careers Goes On Management University Boxes Brown Phds Black Face

Author:Archie Panjabi

“I went to Buckingham Palace and I wanted to take something from there, but there was nothing good to steal, although I did nick some serviettes with ER and Her Majesty on them from the Jubilee celebrations.”

Wanted Stealing Celebration Majesty Palaces Jubilee Buckingham Palace

Author:Konnie Huq

“I went to business school but left after four months because I just didn't want to be a puppet of society, stuck in an office, craving some sunlight.”

Want School Left Four Months Office Stuck Sunlight Craving Puppets Business School

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.”

Years Firsts Bigs Kids Wanted School Left Careers Products Birth Daughter Bills Nine Consumers Ran Division Microsoft Nine Years Chunks Business School

Author:Melinda Gates

“I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any.”

Humor Funny Trousers Camouflage

Author:Tommy Cooper

“I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.”

Grows Corners Cambridge Tweed

Author:Stephen Fry

“I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .”

Feet Stage Singing Window Tiny Bars Canada Animated Mojo

Author:Dar Williams

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