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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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I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.


Ken Jeong
I studied voice when I was at school, and I was in the chamber choir, and I studied music theory as well, so I guess a lot of it came from being taught at school.
Lily Allen
Tags: Music Being Lot
I worked at a movie theater in Tempe, Arizona, when I went to community college there. And I got fired because a sorority had rented out a theater to watch 'Titanic,' and they were being really rude to me while they were waiting for the movie. So as I tore their tickets, I told them the end of the movie.
Bill Hader
Tags: Me Because Out
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I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.


Lev Grossman
Tags: Time Up Little
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So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.


Robert Plant
Tags: Time Long Having
My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there.
Shreya Ghoshal
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It took me a long time to find my voice as a singer, and I'm happy that I did.


Wes Borland
Tags: Time Me Did
The economic piece is still missing, since it's so hard to attract industry to reservations, but spiritually and educationally, they're doing just fine. Each tribe has a community college now, and they teach the language, they teach the traditions.
James Welch
Tags: Just Now Doing
I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.
Alexis Denisof
Tags: Some Then Doing
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I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.


Patti Scialfa
Tags: Time Music Been
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
Thomas Carlyle
Tags: Great God Me
I've become more and more aware of the promise and struggle to teach the global mind nowadays because I use every chance I get to ask faculty and administrators of management education programs why we don't offer at least one course - not even required, just an elective - on the world's religions.
Warren Bennis
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A quarter century of running a restaurant - that's a long time to do one thing.


Charlie Trotter
Tags: Time Thing Long
Everyone is taught the essentials of writing for at least 13 years, maybe more if they go to college. Nobody is taught music or tap dancing that way.
Tom Wolfe
Tags: Music More Way
I like to surf. I like to play guitar. I want to do college classes online. I wanted to do marine biology for a long time, but I don't know.
Ali Lohan
Tags: Time Like Know
I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.
Julia Sweeney
Tags: Time Just Because
Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
Damon Albarn
Tags: Time Music Me
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
Melissa George
Tags: Time Great You
My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
Vik Muniz
Tags: Time Me Just