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I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in.
Harvey Pekar / Film Writer
Familiar
Junior High
School High School High
Collected
Junior
Junior High School
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In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.
Meg Cabot / Author
College
Courses
Creative Writing
School
Writing
School High School High
Novelist
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Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.
Jean Chatzky / Journalist
Entering
High School Students
Misconception
School High School High
School High School Only
Aid
Intended
Luckily
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In high school, I worked at The Video Room in Oakland, California. It had the largest selection of laser discs in the Bay Area. One guy owned all of them.
Colin Trevorrow /
Bay Area
California
High School
Oakland
Selection
Video
School High School High
Area
Bay
Largest
Room
Owned
Worked
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I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.
Duane G. Carey / Astronaut
School High School High
Intentions
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I started writing songs in high school, so you had to write this stuff out and register it with the Library of Congress. You had to learn how to do that stuff.
Gordon Lightfoot / Singer-Songwriter
Congress
Library
Register
School High School High
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I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'
Harmony Korine / Film Director
Creative Writing
Nashville
Nyu
Program
School High School High
School High School First
Graduated
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After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.
Zachary Knighton / Actor
Bunch
College
School
Stuff
School High School High
Card
Professionally
Throughout
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When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high school students.
Brian Greene / Theoretical Physicist
Firsts
General Relativity
High School Students
Math
Relativity
School
Unfamiliar
School High School High
School High School First
Advanced
Physicists
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
Laura Osnes / Actress
Musical Theatre
Wisconsin
Studied
School High School High
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I studied a lot from bossa nova, and I used to listen to it a lot as a kid because my mum would play it. I even wanted to learn Portuguese in high school so I could sing in it.
Amber Mark /
Portuguese
Studied
School High School High
Nova
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I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.
Stephanie Szostak / Film Actress
France
Golf
School
Teenager
School High School High
Month
Dropped
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After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.
Casey Affleck / Actor
High School
Saved
School High School High
Agent
Auditioning
Bell
School Who High School
Friend
Drove
Graduated
Mine
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Defense not only wins games; it's what gets you on the floor at every level you play at. Once you get to high school and get to college, if you don't play defense, you won't play.
Avery Bradley / Basketball Player
Defense
Games
High School
School High School High
School High School Only
Floor
Wins
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I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.
Joel Edgerton / Actor
Jordan
Rugby
Schwarzenegger
School High School High
Arnold
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Michael
Michael Jordan
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I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.
John C. Reilly / Actor
Choir
Chorus
Dragons
Dungeons
Founding
High School
Outcast
School
Swings
School High School High
Among
School High School Group
Club
Group
School Group High School
Member
Swing
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When I was in high school, I started writing a serial novel, longhand, set in the Arthurian mythos, and influenced not incidentally by Marion Zimmer Bradley's 'The Mists of Avalon.'
Greg Rucka / Comic Book Writer
High School
Novel
School High School High
Set
Influenced
Longhand
Marion
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When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do; I should write one-liners.' And I did. My first album is mostly one-liners.
Mike Birbiglia / Comedian
Brilliant
Comedian
High School
School
School High School High
School High School First
Album
High
Saw
Mostly
One-Liners
Steven
Wright
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I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.
Ryne Sandberg / Baseball Player
Baseball
Baseball Player
Basketball
High School
Player
Quarterback
School
School High School High
Central
Washington
High
Intent
Letter
North
Signed
Though
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When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass / Poet
Brando
Buttons
Dean
School
Stanford
Trios
School High School High
Cal
Elvis
Headed
James
Shirt
Trio
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The only autograph I ever got, which I do not have anymore, was Matthew Fox when he was on 'Party Of Five.' I was in high school, and he came to our local amusement park, and I stood in line and got an autograph.
Riki Lindhome / Actress
Amusement
Matthew
School High School High
School High School Only
Anymore
Autograph
Fox
Local
Park
Stood
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Started playing indoor volleyball in 5th grade. Started playing club volleyball when I was 15. Played in high school and at Florida Gulf Coast University. Started playing beach volleyball after graduating from FGCU.
Brooke Sweat /
Volleyball
Beach
Coast
Florida
School High School High
Grade
Gulf
Gulf Coast
Indoor
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In high school, all my friends' older brothers had these cars. I had a number of friends whose brothers collected Dodges and Plymouths and some of the coolest cars I've ever seen when I was a kid. I was just flabbergasted.
Bill Goldberg / Actor
School High School High
All My Friends
Collected
Coolest
Older Brothers
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The sole forms of social interaction I was aware of as a kid involved a jungle gym and a sticker book. It was only in high school that ICQ - a prehistoric form of instant messaging - was first incorporated into my cultural vocabulary.
Dan Levy /
Instant
Interaction
Jungle
Prehistoric
Social Interaction
Sole
Sticker
Vocabulary
School High School High
Incorporated
Messaging
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I went to Detroit Public Schools: Harms Elementary, Bennett, which is now called Phoenix Academy. This is all in Southwest Detroit. I graduated from Southwestern High School, so I'm a 'Prospector,' which is what we used to call each other.
Rashida Tlaib /
Academy
Detroit
Phoenix
School High School High
Bennett
Elementary
Graduated
Public Schools
Southwest
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Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.
Flea /
Band
Bass
Chili
Guitar
Guitar Player
High School
Peppers
Player
School
Two Weeks
Started
School High School High
Guitar School High School
Bass Player
Became
Original
Weeks
Close
High
Later
Met
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I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped quite considerably. I did read fiction as a teenager as well, mostly because I was forced to read fiction, of course, to go through high school.
Daniel Tammet / Writer
Non Fiction
School
Teenager
Thinking
School High School Through
School High School High
School High School Go
Considerably
Forced
Mostly
Ratio
Recent
Recent Years
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In 1980, when I graduated from high school, my goal was to be on 'The Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson at least once before our ten-year class reunion. Our class reunion was in June of 1990, and I was on 'The Tonight Show' in April 1990, so I made it by a few months.
Jeff Dunham / Ventriloquist
April
Class
High School
June
Months
Reunion
School
Tonight
Years
School High School High
Once
Before
Show
High
Few
Graduated
Johnny
Least
Tonight Show
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I went to a college prep high school in St. Louis, Missouri. When I graduated from school, I owned this thing called the Headmaster's Cup, and the Headmaster's Cup is for the student who exemplifies the spirit of the institution and is recognized by the faculty and administration.
Sterling K. Brown / Actor
Administration
College
Faculty
High School
Missouri
Spirit
School High School High
Louis
Cup
Student
High
Graduated
Institution
Owned
Prep
Recognized
St. Louis
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When I was going to high school, in the high school band we would play these kind of hour-long concerts for our parents. All the parents would come to the gymnasium, and the band would play an hour-long kind of orchestra piece. 'Synchestra' is supposed to be similar, like a high school band orchestra piece.
Devin Townsend / Musician
Band
Concerts
High School
Orchestra
School
School High School High
High
Gymnasium
Parents
Piece
Similar
Supposed
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