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		I was just finishing high school and entering college in 1988, when the Creator's Bill of Rights was drafted, and had already set my sights on building a career as a writer of comics. Discovering the Creator's Bill of Rights - in an issue of 'The Comics Journal,' if I'm not mistaken - I accepted it as gospel.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Roberson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jenna Ushkowitz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matt Groening
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was 18, I began attending college for art and design, and I designed all sorts of things from furniture to industrial designs and even watches.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aldis Hodge
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There's slowly been a kind of shift in how we think about childhood. It's like childhood almost extends to 20 or 22 even after the end of college. When I was growing up, there was this expectation that you were on your own now.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Meno
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dylan O'Brien
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeffrey Donovan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lewis H. Lapham
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Debbie Meyer
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I wanted college to be a real American adventure for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mark Kurlansky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was bored at college, so I put $10 in a jukebox in this place where people played ping-pong and pool. I put in $10 of 'Jingle Bell Rock,' and this was back in the '90s, so it played 'Jingle Bell Rock,' like, 40 times in a row. It was just really fun to watch because after the fourth time, people were just losing-their-minds angry.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kyle Dunnigan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eileen Myles
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				John Katzman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lou Holtz
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up listening to Mary J. Blige's music. When I initially met her, it was like, 'Oh, wow. I'm meeting this woman whose music was the soundtrack of my college years.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dee Rees
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Avi