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I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble finding my place. But when I found the music, I had a place of my own.
Brittany Howard
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My father was a truck driver. That's where it all started, and academically I was a disaster at school. My cousin got his name on the honour board; I, at Melbourne High School, I carved mine on the desk.
Lindsay Fox
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I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
Naveen Andrews
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We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.


Peggy Fleming
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I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.
Patrick Ewing
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.


Karel Capek
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You know I'm always in trouble.


Tony Yayo
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In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now and again, but I didn't have enough time to be devoted to it.
Natalie Morales
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I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
H. L. Hunt
I'm interested in generating work for myself. I have trouble with this waiting-for-the-phone-to-ring lifestyle, especially after drama school, which was so creatively fulfilling.
Lupita Nyong'o
Tags: Work Which Myself
The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening.
Brian De Palma
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I love America. I think it's the best country in the world. But I also think we're not tending to our sauce.
Thomas Friedman
When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.
Joe Manganiello
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My dad was a great business guy, and he always taught us that his business acumen would put his workers' kids through school, and their great artistry... would put my brothers and me through school.
Tim Kaine
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Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.


Ian Schrager
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In work, never have any regrets and always leave everything on the field.


Jake Gyllenhaal
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It's not like my body has changed since I've played in high school, beyond being more mature. It's not like my power has changed, either.
Giancarlo Stanton
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I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.


Vivian Campbell
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In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself.
Richard P. Feynman
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I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live TV and being there as it happens that's always appealed to me. I think there's great value to bearing witness to these events as they're actually happening.
Anderson Cooper
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