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I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.
Caitlin Rose
Tags: Music About Out
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Due to financial reasons, I dropped out of school after eight years of formal schooling.


Philip Emeagwali
Tags: Out Years After
I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible.
Jason Woliner
Tags: Out Up Some
My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
Daniel Goldstein
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
V. S. Naipaul
Tags: Work Out Really
I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
Dave Grohl
Tags: Out Go Myself
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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.


Friedrich Nietzsche
Tags: Best Who Will
Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
Alia Shawkat
Tags: Just Out Then
The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.
Jackie Cooper
Tags: Just Out Had
The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.
Philip Kerr
Tags: Best Make Done
I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.
Kevin Whately
Tags: Best Because Up
As we get older, we tend to become more risk averse because we tend to find reasons why things won't work. When you are a kid, you think everything is possible, and I think with creativity it is so important to keep that naivety.
Heston Blumenthal
Tags: Work You Think
I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.
Terry Riley
Tags: Just Out Had
There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.
Taylor Phinney
Tags: Me Think Out
You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.
Scarlett Johansson
Tags: Work You Think
Life being so short, and the possible books to write so many, it's good to function by night as well as by day; but would anybody become a writer if they realised at the outset what the working hours were?
Hilary Mantel
Tags: Good Life Would
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
Jane Hirshfield
I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.
Snoop Dogg
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.
Patrick Duffy
Tags: Dad Me Then
My father told me when I went to college that I needed to take an accounting class. I enrolled and went the first day. I didn't understand a thing that was being said and dropped the class. I really regret that decision. I should have stuck it out and learned the basics of accounting, but I took the easy way out.
Georgina Bloomberg
Tags: Me Out Really