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		School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sarah Rees Brennan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I started to wear the sunglasses all the time at school, hiding behind them... I'd walk down the hallways, practically hugging the wall, dragging my head against it like I was crazy.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				R. Kelly
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marisa Miller
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Jenkins
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As children, in our own school of life, we soak up clues about our world just as eagerly as small squirrels. Exposure to children's books provides verbal and visual material to help us along the way. So subtle and varied can the lessons be that it may take years before we use everything we absorbed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anita Silvey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Steve Laurence is the only person that was on the first 'Tonight Show,' right to the end. He was a little high school boy, 14 years old.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jayne Meadows
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Don Rickles
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Hill
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Comedy and tragedy co-exist. You can't have one without the other. I'm of the school that anything can be funny if seen from a comedic point of view.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harold Ramis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Basically, I left Northern Telecom after 7.5 years of being in one company after school. And then, I ended up in a series of start-ups. The first of those was a company called Sitech, and they were in local area networks.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ram Shriram
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jack Quaid
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		It's the weird thing Eton does - you're at school next to lords and earls and, in my case, Prince William, so you end up being used to dealing with those sorts of people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eddie Redmayne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				La'Porsha Renae
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've managed to completely reeducate myself into making eating secondary. I used to eat all the time because the food was there. Now I feel like a kid in school who is gaining points for behaving. And I love myself for it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nell Carter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tavi Gevinson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up listening to country music with my dad on the way to school.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lauren Daigle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Flea
			
			
				Jane's Addiction