“I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.” StuffPartyCollegeAmbition Author:Miles Teller
“I have stage combat training from college, which is drastically different than fighting for the screen, but I do enjoy that kind of stuff.” KindDifferentFightingStuffEnjoyStageCollegeTrainingScreensCombat Author:Sonequa Martin
“Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our house, we would just never even dream of making anywhere else. Just sick, horrible stuff. That wasn't anything new to college.” RealDreamHouseStuffCollegeJokesMy FamilySickHorribleSense Of HumorTwisted Author:Seth MacFarlane
“I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.” ChildrenArtStillsUseCertainStuffLinesCreativityTalentTaughtCollegeColorDrawsCollecting Author:Beverly L. Kaye
“I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.” CertainStuffMysteryCenturyStyleCollegeAwful19th CenturyDickensFluidity Author:Josh Lieb
“I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.” MenDoeSaidI CanDoneProblemRememberYoungUsedNamesStuffCollegeKeysConversationComputerCompetitionFingersYoung ManExtensionsMechanicElectronicsPasswords Author:William Shatner
“When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.” GuyFeltStuffClassCareersCollege Author:Aaron Staton
“When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like Madea, and Night, Mother, and Sam Shepard, and all that kind of stuff. Thats what I really wanted to do.” KindWantedMotherNightStuffGoalStageNew YorkCollegeMovedActressesDramaticMother NightMadea Author:Rachael Harris
“I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.” SchoolStuffRocksCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolDancingSingersPunkPunk RockRock Bands Author:Brian Dietzen
“In college I didn't dress up every day, for class or stuff like that, but when it came time to do certain things I'd dress up for sure.” CertainStuffClassCollegeDresses Author:Russell Westbrook
“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.” YearsDoeArtStatesEnoughRunningSchoolStuffClassFourCollegeLuckyPhotographyTestsGradesFour YearsGreyHippieArt SchoolBlah Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!” YearsFirstsKindLongI CanTwoKidsUsedStuffCitiesCrazyCollegeAll KindsBeachPianoPrizeTwo YearsContestsAnnualsCrazy ThingsLong Beach Author:Eddie Van Halen
“Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.” PeopleWantWritingReasonAbleWantedFilmStuffBehindsClassCollegeMaterialsInvolvedSceneMajorsBehind The ScenesScreenwriting Author:Miranda Cosgrove
“Once I was in college, I was actually trying to write a comedy screenplay and I wrote basically the worst movie ever and just threw it away and never showed anybody. Everyone needs to get that first bad screenplay out of your system before you start writing other stuff.” NeedsWritingTryingFirstsStuffComedyWorstCollegeScreenplaysWorst Movie Author:Scot Armstrong
“There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.” StuffComedyHappenedGroupsCollegeFemaleMalesSketch Comedy Author:Missi Pyle
“If you did go to high school and then college, there's definitely a solidarity with someone that is from your hometown and knows your mom, and all that stuff. There's this weird politeness that we have, as a society. You don't want to make it hard for anybody.” IfsKnowsWantHardSchoolStuffCollegeMomHigh SchoolSolidarityPolitenessYour MomHometown Author:John Krasinski
“For those two years in college I was constantly singing and writing and playing in coffee houses and stuff.” WritingYearsTwoHouseStuffCollegeSingingCoffeeTwo YearsCoffee Houses Author:Dan Fogelberg
“When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.” TryingKindAgeCultureHouseLostLeftStuffYouthCollegeDaughterMy DaughterPatheticConsultantsYouth Culture Author:Emily Yoffe
“As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.” PeopleChildrenDifferentKidsSchoolStuffCommunityActingClassNew YorkCollegeGrewGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolTheaterFortunateReally GreatGreat People Author:Andrew Rannells
“If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.” IfsWould BeStuffSportsCollegeBaseballSouthRadioStationsCarolinaRadio StationsSouth CarolinaBroadcastersPlaying Baseball Author:Brian Roberts
“I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me.” GivingHas BeensAgeStuffChanceResponsibilityStupidCollegeAppreciateBaseballTwinsSecond ChanceSpotlightStupid ThingsBad StuffPlaying Baseball Author:Delmon Young
“What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would do my homework and I think I could do a decent job. I don't think a degree in education would make me a better teacher. I sometimes teach in college. I don't teach for long periods of time, but I give workshops and I think I can communicate stuff. So, it's about communicating.” IfsThinkingKnowsGivingLongI CanSometimesKidsJobsYoungStuffTeachTeacherWeekCollegePeriodsDegreesMathematicsCommunicateDecentHomeworkWorkshopsLong Periods Of Time Author:Philippe Falardeau
“I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this. Watching Mel Brooks and Monty Python and SNL and all that stuff really informed me as a writer and then at high school I started a satire magazine and the college like The Lampoon really introduced me to like you know a lot of very like-minded people who really wanted to like comedy was the center of their lives.” PeopleKnowsFirstsBelieveI CanWantedSchoolRememberReadingStuffCan DoComedyCollegeLike YouHigh SchoolFirst TimeMagazinesSatireBrooksDaveBelieve You CanPythonSnlMonty Author:Nicholas Stoller
“I've got people who like Tommy Boy, but they're getting older and there's a whole new wave of college kids who see that and Joe Dirt, and Just Shoot Me is a little older, so I wanted stuff for everybody.” PeopleLittlesWholeKidsWantedStuffBoysCollegeWaveDirtGetting OldGetting OlderMy Boys Author:David Spade
“I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.” YearsTwoSchoolThreeStuffCollegeHigh SchoolIndependentTwo YearsThree Years Author:Jeremy Camp
“I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.” SaidAgeGirlStuffCollegeNormalFifteenLiedThat Girl Author:Ian Bremmer
“My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until I was out of college that I decided I wanted to make this my career.” WantedStuffCareersCollegeMomDecidedCookingMy MomCooks Author:Anne Burrell
“I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.” PeopleUsedStuffVoiceClassLaughingCollegeSkillsClown Author:Steve Coogan
“There were people I knew that came to college and had never drank before, and never partied, and maybe got a little bit too carried away with it when they did finally get out of the house... I feel like I got that stuff out of my system when I was sixteen and knew to balance things - but at the same time - it's not like I was out getting my medical degree. Playing in a band, you can still have plenty of fun!” PeopleFeelsLittlesStillsHouseFunStuffBitsCollegeBalanceBandDegreesLittle BitMedicalPlentyDrankSixteenCarried Away Author:Chris Baio
“I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had Bush elected, 9/11, we were at war, so I was sort of having my political and spiritual awakening at the same time I was becoming an adult, and that's a lot of stuff at once. I became very focused on the state of the world, and I started studying that stuff more, and I just had a real identity crisis. I couldn't even really just study literature.” WorldWritingYearsWarRealStatesSpiritualPoliticalLiteratureStuffStudyIdentityCollegeCoupleBecomingAdultsCrisisFocusedAwakeningSpiritual AwakeningIdentity CrisisBecoming An Adult Author:Gaby Hoffmann
“Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.” PeopleKindAbleWantedStuffTalentCollegeHollywoodRan80sSteam Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“[People] think [the government is] coddling people, like when people's feelings are hurt at the colleges and they send somebody in to make them feel better. Stuff like that drives [voters here] crazy.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFeelingsGovernmentStuffHurtCrazyCollegeVotersFeel Better Author:Collin Peterson
“I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn't read like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is so well written and funny.” WritingWellsSchoolStuffCreativeWrittenCollegeMajorsFairsVanityGraduatesCreative WritingDickensWell WrittenGraduate SchoolSwitchingVanity Fair Author:Stephen Dobyns
“That America is in the calamity is a result of a certain amount of elitism in the Democratic Party where they're tied to the sensibility of the college-educated, multicultural crowd, of which I'm a part, which has created a sense where it's OK to say, "All the red state voters are stupid, they're all dummies, they're all racist, they're all backwards mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging ..." all that stuff. And that kind of elitism, which is first of all not true, is also not fair. It's also dumb strategy.” FirstsKindStatesAmericaCertainStuffResultsPartyStupidCollegeAmountMouthsRedFairsStrategyDemocraticCrowdsEducatedDumbBreathingRacistVotersTiedSensibilityBackwardsCalamityDemocratic PartyNot FairMulticulturalElitismKnucklesDummy Author:Van Jones