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“My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.”

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Author:Katie Leclerc

“I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.”

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Author:Kevin McKidd

“Right after I graduated high school, I joined a sushi restaurant to learn how to make Japanese food. And then spent seven years. Then that time - that's enough. Then sushi restaurant - butchering fish and they make your body smell like fishy.”

Years Enough Body School High School Seven Fishes Smell Your Body Restaurants Seven Years Sushi Japanese Food Fishy

Author:Masaharu Morimoto

“I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70!”

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Author:Rose McGowan

“I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.”

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Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.”

People Years Home School Past Three Gone Generations Modern Ready Cooks Meals Relevant Modern Life Over The Past Home Life Three Generations Processed Food Takeaways

Author:Jamie Oliver

“To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.”

Knows Years Has Beens Play Able School Law Stuff Talking Lawyer Faster Belts Law School Courtroom

Author:Jerry O'Connell

“When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years. But that all gets forgotten.”

Years School Gone Drama Forgotten London Auditions

Author:Julia Ormond

“I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.”

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Author:Barry Levinson

“The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.”

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Author:Jim Leach

“I didn't really have the entire high school experience. I've been working since I was six years old, so I didn't go to the classic high school.”

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Author:Thomas Ian Nicholas

“I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.”

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Author:Adam Oates

“Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.”

Knows Years Stories School Left Car High School Yeah Moved Typical Idaho

Author:Aaron Paul

“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.”

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Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published.”

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Author:Karrine Steffans

“I spent most of my high school years on movie sets and I'd have like one teacher, which was really bad.”

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Author:Devon Sawa

“With the frenzied pace in our own country, with the degenerating school system, with a crime rate that rises 30% a year, and with politicians that seem more interested in posturing than in governing, it has become more difficult, or should I say challenging, to achieve that inner symbiosis with life.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.”

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Author:Jason Segel

“I don't want to return to the past. I don't yearn for when I was 18 years old. I was in high school then. I had acne. I had a terrible hairdo. I'm sure I was sporting polyester pants.”

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Author:Joe Scarborough

“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.”

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Author:Sarah Sutton

“I was kicked out of school one year for streaking.”

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Author:Steve Sabol

“I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.”

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Author:Joe Tex

“My name is James Edward Franco. Ted is a nickname for Edward. That's what my parents called me. I also got 'Teddy Ruxpin' a lot. It just got to a point where I got sick of it, so when a teacher called out 'James Franco' my junior year of high school, I didn't correct her.”

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Author:James Franco

“When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short films. I started making films based on short poems.”

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Author:James Franco

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

Years School Social Cities Careers Study Teaching High School Years Ago Retired Social Studies Inner City Younger Sister Teaching History

Author:Judy Woodruff

“But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.”

Years Kind Two School Form Three University Clubs Medical Three Years Psychiatry Covering Calendars Medical School

Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“My dad didn't graduate from high school, ended up being a printing salesman, probably never made more than $8,000 a year. My mom sold real estate and did it part time.”

Years Made Real School Mom Dad High School My Dad My Mom Graduates Estates Printing Salesman Part Time Graduating High School

Author:Al Franken

“I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.”

Thinking Years School Voice Theater Musical Musical Theater Forte Legit

Author:Cristin Milioti

“I went out with the same girl throughout all four years of high school.”

Years School Girl Four High School Four Years

Author:Jesse Metcalfe

“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

“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.”

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“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 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.”

Years School Born Century Paper Summer Raised Seven Various Studios Selling Department Vacation Foxes 20th Century Papers Seven Years Born And Raised Timer Summer Vacation Old Timers

Author:Richard D. Zanuck

“TRYING TO BE POPULAR IN HIGH SCHOOL IS LIKE TRYING TO BE MAYOR OF A CITY THAT WON'T EXIST IN FOUR YEARS.”

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Author:Jenny Holzer

“I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.”

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Author:Charles William Eliot

“I remember feeling ashamed, for some reason. I was ashamed of my parents. I couldn't face some of my friends at school anymore, because I desperately wanted to have the classic, you know, typical family. Mother, father. I wanted that security, so I resented my parents for quite a few years because of that.”

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Author:Kurt Cobain

“Schools are compulsory for about ten years of a person's life. They are, perhaps, the only compulsory institutions for all citizens, although those with full membership in schools are not yet treated as full citizens of our society.”

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Author:Marie Brennan

“Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.”

Years School Remember Names Strange Nicknames Dummy

Author:John Lydon

“We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools that present a potential opportunity, a young man or a young woman has to be happy with their decision. If they are unhappy, then their whole four years of college are going to be some of the most miserable memories of their lifetime.”

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Author:Craig Biggio

“I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.”

Writing Years Firsts Play School Jobs Class College

Author:Zoe Kazan

“Everybody remembers what it's like to be in high school. We really never leave those years behind.”

Years School Remember Behinds High School

Author:Nikki DeLoach

“I moved to New York between my junior and senior years of high school to just see what it was like, to go to a modeling agency and see how to get representation.”

Years School New York High School Moved Agency Representation Senior Modeling Juniors Senior Year

Author:Teri Polo

“My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.”

Ifs Years School Guy Found Changed Dad Easier Army Moved My Dad New Friends Funny Guy

Author:Jason Gann

“In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.”

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Author:Andrew Lau

“The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.”

Years Long Has Beens School Church Universal Dimensions Forty Introducing Bishops Good School

Author:Karl Lehmann

“I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.”

Years Wanted School High School Died Drummer Hendrix

Author:Narada Michael Walden

“I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've been sort of part of the culture, part of the geography, since I was quite young - the imprint was there. And I loved it.”

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Author:Charlotte Rampling

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