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“Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Art I Can School Film Careers Yeah Stem Stumbling

Author:Karen O

“I loved my boarding school, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I didn't have a career.”

Knows Wanted School Careers

Author:Lilly Pulitzer

“By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning acting career.”

School Acting Careers High School Favors Forsaken

Author:Michael J. Fox

“It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.”

Kind Different Character School Careers Drama All Kinds Range Different Characters

Author:Lance Reddick

“You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!”

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Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.”

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Author:Judy Woodruff

“Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.”

World Government School Steps Careers Policy Television Fellows Presses Corporate Publishing Harvard Public Policy

Book:Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

Source: Lies: And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them

“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.”

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Author:Al Franken

“At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin.”

School Father Careers Roles Months High School Mathematics Filled Eight Medical I Realized Greek Feminine Latin Gaps Permission Medical School Professional Career

Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini

“My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.”

School Parent Careers Dad High School My Dad Graduates Lots Of Money Printing Salesman Working Life Graduating High School

Author:Al Franken

“I remember going to my school careers advisor and asked about jobs that required scuba divers. It was a phase.”

School Jobs Remember Careers Phases Advisors Scuba Scuba Divers

Author:Paul Putner

“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.”

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Author:Buzz Bissinger

“I was going to be a High School teacher. I was studying at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, up in Canada. I was also acting in a wonderfully supportive theatre community in Edmonton. There's a lot of support for theatre there. So, I was having a great time, but I didn't consider acting as a serious career initially, because even the most successful actors that I know in Edmonton are not super successful. Acting over there is just not a success-oriented career.”

“I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.”

School Careers High School Moved Pursued

Author:Skylar Grey

“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.”

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Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“The great break of my literary career was going to law school.”

School Law Careers Break Law School

Author:Scott Turow

“I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.”

Source: Hereditary Genius: An Inquiry Into Its Laws and Consequences

“When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.”

Writing Art Today School Song Careers Following Performing Muse Writing Songs Art School Versatility Dabbling

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.”

“I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.”

World School Careers Teaching Worldly Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You know what happens to guys? There's what I call the individual time of their career, and the team time of their career. This is the team time. You don't care about all the other stuff. You just want to live in one place, and watch your kids grow up and go to the same school. You say, 'Hey, maybe I'd better play well and be a good enough guy that they keep me.'”

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Author:Mike Babcock

“It's not my fault Snow didn't have any other options coming out of high school. If going to college gets you a career backup goaltender job, and my route gets you a thousand points and a thousand games, and compare the two contracts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out whose decision was better.”

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Author:Jeremy Roenick

“Most people are operating out of repetition. If you come to work or school each day with the same mind-state, you probably can't get more out of it than you did yesterday.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“I never went to drama school. I went straight into the theater. We had the most extraordinary voice teacher. I worked with her when I was starting out in my career. How to place my voice from a very relaxed position was all wonderfully reminiscent of going back to the basics. But I always like to do that with any role that I do, to dismantle it and put it all back together again.”

School Together Voice Careers Roles Teacher Position Drama Theater Extraordinary Starting Relaxed Back Together Basics Starting Out Together Again Back Together Again

Author:Ben Kingsley

“The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.”

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Author:Laura Mennell

“I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there.”

“The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.”

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Author:Arne Duncan

“When I was in high school, I would perform every year in those plays and there was something I really loved about it. But I was completely unaware that you could sort of get into an acting career.”

Years Play School Acting Careers High School

Author:Nick Offerman

“When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.”

Kids School Easy Acting Careers Cry Grades Translate

Author:Albert Brooks

“I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.”

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Author:Nancy Allen

“I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.”

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Author:Adam Shankman

“I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.”

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Author:Ed Asner

“I have always considered myself a fast learner. I try to retain and absorb as much information and knowledge about the [music] business as I can. I don't want to just sit back and have other people do the hard work for me. I try to be involved in every process of my career as possible. I run my own social media, record, and try to vocal produce myself as much as possible, write my own songs, style myself, and learn the business side. If I didn't do acting or music, I was going to school for business. God has put me on this path and I can honestly say I wake up every day doing what I love.”

“I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.”

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Author:Charlie Trotter

“But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.”

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Author:Colin Hanks

“I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?”

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Author:Temple Grandin

“A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?”

“I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I never had the opportunity to associate with anybody my own age due to my career. I miss being around kids my own age.”

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Author:Selena

“In high performing countries, principals are working with highly qualified teachers who come from the top tiers of the graduation range, who have been rigorously prepared in universities and through supervised practice in schools, and who remain in education for all of their careers.”

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Author:Andy Hargreaves

“Other than a few years of piano as a kid, I don't have all that much musical training. I played piano for all the musicals in high school and was in a few bands, but never really considered music as a viable career until I was in college.”

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Author:John Keltonic

“I went through a change in my life and my career where I finally understood how to train and prepare. I finally understood what it meant, and I've had so many fantasies about being able to go back and be 16 again. And redo parts of my high school career. Redo all of my college career. Redo my attempt to make an Olympic team.”

Able School Careers Fantasy Team College Understood High School Train Changing My Life Redos

Author:Chael Sonnen

“The anger I have about high school - which I do have because they discouraged every interest I ever had; actually I call it anti-education - that anger led to my career.”

School Interest Careers High School Discouraged

Author:John Waters

“I've had much more down in my life than I've had up. And much more struggle. First of all, when I went into the film school everybody said, "What are you doing? This is a complete dead-end for a career."”

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Author:George Lucas

“I had always been able to make people laugh in school, so I really developed that and worked on it and I got pretty good at it and it turned into a career.”

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Author:Andy Andrews

“The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career].”

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Author:George Carlin

“I spent much of my college life prepping for other careers, but I was always drawing and painting whenever I had free time. Eventually, thanks to the internet, I started noticing that there were such things as art schools, and professional artists, and people making a living doing a variety of types of art.”

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Author:Julie Dillon

“Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.”

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Author:Cate Blanchett

“I feel like no matter what happens in my career endeavors after today, going to grad school is one of the best decisions I've ever made.”

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Author:Gene Weingarten

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