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“Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.”

“I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.”

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Author:William Mapother

“Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.”

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Author:Alfred Molina

“When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.”

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Author:Alfred Molina

“Art-school girls are very nice.”

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Author:Anthony Mackie

“At Juilliard, I couldn't afford to have fun. I went to school and stayed home.”

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Author:Anthony Mackie

“I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.”

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Author:Anthony Mackie

“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.”

Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

“A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.”

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Author:Callan McAuliffe

“In high school I was on the basketball team, but the coach did something I didn't dig and the next day he looked up and saw me practising with the football team.”

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Author:Charles Mingus

“I'm an advocate of music in schools. It's important to me that music is in as many schools as possible across this country and across the world. I think that it's a lost art form because kids aren't as exposed to it as maybe they used to be, or should be. I was exposed heavily to jazz and that's why I love it.”

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Author:Chrisette Michele

“When I was in school I used to prank my teachers all the time. But I was really, really nice. I love to make people laugh. And even in those pranks, the teachers would laugh most of the time.”

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Author:Chrisette Michele

“As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.”

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Author:Chuck Mangione

“I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.”

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Author:Debbie Macomber

“I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.”

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Author:Debbie Macomber

“If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.”

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Author:Denise Mina

“In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.”

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Author:Don McLean

“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.”

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Author:Ed Markey

“Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure.”

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Author:Eric McCormack

“I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.”

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Author:Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

“My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.”

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Author:Gary McCord

“Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.”

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Author:Jacqueline McKenzie

“You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!”

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Author:Sofia Vergara

“I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.”

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Author:Steve Vai

“I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.”

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Author:Allison Williams

“I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.”

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Author:Merritt Wever

“All my family has very good mathematical abilities - like, so dorky. I was the dork then in school - on any maths exams I'd get 100%. I just knew how to do maths and most people would hate it, but for some reason it just came.”

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Author:Rebel Wilson

“I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.”

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Author:Rita Wilson

“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”

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“I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.”

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Author:Barry Zito

“Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!”

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Author:Daphne Zuniga

“When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.”

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Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“I was out in L.A. and I had gone to film school and I was out here for a couple of years. For a lot of years, I was bartending and having a good time.”

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Author:Justin Zackham

“The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.”

“I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.”

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Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.”

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Author:Sara Zarr

“My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.”

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Author:Sara Zarr

“I toned down my accent at school; otherwise, people would pick on me.”

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Author:Michelle Ryan

“I like acting, but I like filmmaking better. I went to film school. I want to make films.”

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Author:Art Alexakis

“I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.”

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Author:Tom Shadyac

“I like the idea of up-and-coming actors nowadays being a little different and not necessarily the drama-school stereotype, being a bit more edgy.”

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Author:Kaya Scodelario

“I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

“I would always be the kid that got in trouble in school, that's for sure, for joking around.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

“I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.”

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Author:Matthew Perry

“This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.”

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Author:Pat Boone

“I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.”

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Author:Faith Evans

“I'd like to go to NYU business school and then go on to film school.”

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Author:Alexa Vega

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