“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.” WayKindHas BeensSchoolFilmActingClassCareersRolesCollegeLateTrainSticksTheatreSteadyTeensBugsSlow And Steady Author:Laura Mennell
“A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.” KnowsWantWritingYoungCoursesCan DoNovelCreativeTaughtCollegeLateMarkChessNovelistsCreative WritingTypewritersNovel Writing Author:James M. Cain
“I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.” FirstsStoriesValuesNovelCollegeLateUnderstoodFirst TimeAwakeningIronyObsessedSubtext Author:Shane Carruth
“Often low-income parents give their children every other thing they need for successful participation in school and the world of work except the planning and organizing skills and habit patterns needed to operate in complex settings. Many intelligent and able college students from low-income backgrounds confront these deficits when faced with a heavy assignment load. . . . These patterns are best acquired at an early age and need to be quite well developed by late elementary school or twelve or thirteen years of age.” WorldNeedsGivingYearsWellsChildrenAgeAbleSchoolParentSuccessfulStudentsCollegeNeededHabitSkillsLateLowsIntelligentComplexesPatternsHeavyPlanningBackgroundsIncomeSettingSettingsTwelveLoadParticipationDeficitAssignmentsThirteenElementary SchoolCollege StudentsLow Income Book:School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project Source: School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project
“It is too late in the century for women who have received the benefits of co-education in schools and colleges, and who bear theirfull share in the world's work, not to care who make the laws, who expound and who administer them.” WorldCareSchoolLawEducationShareCenturyCollegeBearsBenefitsLateToo LateSuffrageWoman Suffrage Author:Judith Ellen Foster
“I'm a guy who has always been a late bloomer on every level. I've always wanted to get into the league as a kid. Who would have thought during my senior year at college that I would be where I am now? It's been a lot of hard work and never stopping.” YearsHardWould BeKidsWantedGuyLevelsCollegeHard WorkLateLeagueSeniorStoppingSenior YearNever Stopping Author:Kevin Martin
“I don't do sketch anymore and sometimes I miss it. But I think what I really miss is that time in my life, it was kind of like college. No kids, no real responsibilities, just comedy, food and late nights.” ThinkingKindRealSometimesKidsNightResponsibilityComedyMissingCollegeLateLate Night Author:Alex Borstein
“The late Rev. Peter Gomes at The Memorial Church at Harvard was a true mentor to me when I was in college. He instilled in me a commitment to service, saying that it's not enough to believe in service, or support those who serve - you ought to find a way yourself to serve. When I looked at different options after college, nobody inspired me more than the 18- and 19-year-olds who serve on the front lines of our nation's military. Serving with them in the Marines as we together served our country was the greatest honor of my life to date.” WayYearsBelieveDifferentCountryEnoughTogetherNationsChurchLinesSupportMilitaryFrontsCollegeOughtHonorLateCommitmentInspiredOur CountryServingPeterMentorMarineMemorialHarvardTrue Man Author:Seth Moulton
“In the late 60's I was enrolled at Occidental College majoring in philosophy and taking several studio art classes, but I dropped out. It was a very confusing time with the war in Vietnam and the social changes sweeping the nation.” ArtWarPhilosophyNationsSocialClassCollegeLateStudiosVietnamConfusingSocial ChangeSweepingArt Class Author:Stephen Beal
“Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.” PeopleThinkingChildrenBigsGrowsWaitingCareersKindnessCollegeLatePercentOppositesBottomCrueltyRemoveBrutalMortgage Author:Jack Welch
“John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate intake. When I joined Toyota in Toyota City (where for a time I was the only American) in late 1983, every newly hired college graduate employee began learning his job by being coached [...]” ImportantShowsJobsCitiesCollegeSkillsLateEmployeeGraduatesCollege GraduatesToyota Author:Martin Burns
“The Jews celebrate Passover by eating unpalatable food to remind them what will happen to their people if they ever leave New York City. The traditional meal often includes gefilte fish. For those of you who don't know what gefilte fish is, it strongly resembles a ball of tuna fish that has been passed nasally. It's not good. During Passover, the angel of death passed over the Jews - an event that, up until the late 1950s, was re-enacted every year by Ivy League colleges and suburban country clubs.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsHas BeensCountryHappensCitiesEventsNew YorkCollegeLateEatingAngelBallsFishesJewClubsTraditionalCelebrateLeagueMealsNew York CityIvyTunaIvy LeagueCountry ClubsAngel Of DeathTuna Fish Author:Jon Stewart
“I did stand up first in high school, joined an improv group in college, kept doing stand up after that, no one could deter me. And I have no other skills really, so I'm sorta stuck with this now. It's a little late to switch over to an ornithologist.” FirstsLittlesSchoolGroupsCollegeSkillsLateHigh SchoolStuck Author:Greg Proops
“I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New York and working a job and could barely bother to be a college student and had my own apartment, but I couldn't possibly get married before I was thirty-nine.” WayJobsMy OwnNew YorkStudentsCollegeLateMarriedTwentiesNineBotherThirtyApartmentCollege StudentsPrecocious Author:Meghan Daum
“I was a gay kid in high school in the late '90s, and I was in theater club. I was never a thespian. I was much more of a lighting guy or a backstage guy. Because I wanted to do something easy for the rest of my life, I thought, "Maybe I'll go and apply to colleges that specialize in theater set design. I'll do that. That's what I want to do". With theater, really, I'd be around the gays.” WantKidsWantedSchoolGuyEasyDesignCollegeGayLateHigh SchoolTheaterClubsLightingThespians Author:James Pearse Connelly
“I do the meatball recipe a lot. I think the army stew probably too. It's the most useful dish because it was born out of necessity and poverty and any idiot can make it in 20 minutes on a hot plate. It's cheap and uses readily available commercial ingredients. And it's delicious. It should be the great American dish - perfect late-night stoner dorm food for college kids on a budget.” ThinkingShouldUseKidsNightBornPerfectPovertyMinutesCollegeLateArmyHotAvailableIdiotBudgetsIngredientsPlatesDishesDeliciousRecipesGreat AmericanLate NightStewDormsStonersMeatballs Author:Anthony Bourdain
“In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties... to his college, eventually the navy, the Democratic Party and certain ideals of our country. Those are the things that became broken with my generation.” CountryCertainFatherPartyGenerationsCollegeBrokenLateIdealsDemocraticLoyaltyOur CountryTransitionNavyDemocratic PartyMy Generation1930s Author:Whit Stillman
“Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.” WayYearsKindBookShowsAnswersClassPiecesCollegeParticularFindingsLateYears AgoEastAdmireCoastTherapeuticEast Coast Author:Al Pacino