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I started singing in my church choir, and then when I got to middle school, I had the coolest musical theatre director, and we actually did 'The Wiz' in seventh grade, and I was Addaperle, and my grandma was like, 'Why didn't you audition for Dorothy?' But I was too nervous for that.
Shanice Williams /
Choir
Church
Middle School
Musical
Nervous
Singing
Theatre
Audition
Director
Coolest
Dorothy
Grade
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In, like, seventh or eighth grade every day after school, my friend Andrew and I would watch 'Wayne's World.' And I think it's a great example of a sketch effectively turned into a movie and a story that really works with a good journey. Not easily accomplished, but such a good journey.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Accomplished
Andrew
Eighth Grade
Wayne
Good Great Journey
Effectively
Eighth
Grade
My Friend
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When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.
Hawa Abdi / Activist
Children
Decided
Diagnosis
Died
Mother
Pain
Pregnant
Terrible
Young
Child
Became
Doctor
Eyes
Feeling
Front
Help
Her
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The blues scale was the first thing I learned. It's just a pentatonic scale with a flat seventh and a few notes that sound cool when you bend them. And because people have amalgamated the blues into this rock-blues scale, if you're using it, you better sound like a real authentic blues player.
Steve Vai / Guitarist
Notes
Player
Real
Rocks
Scale
Authentic
Bend
Blues
First Thing
Flat
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Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'
Mike Birbiglia / Comedian
Bus
Driving
Showing Up
Announcement
Directing
Grade
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Showing
Trip
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To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them.
Dino De Laurentiis / Film Producer
Jobs
Producers
Real
Stars
Best Work Me
Closely
Draft
Outline
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During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
Irvin D. Yalom / Author
Bicycle
Childhood
Library
Midst
Neighborhood
Refuge
Streets
Supplies
Twice
Central
Washington
Hazardous
Indoor
Perilous
Segregated
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Trek
Twice A Week
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Behind the scenes, I'm friends with everyone at work, but without a doubt, my best friend is Bray Wyatt. The man pretty much brought me into the industry when they tagged me up with The Wyatt Family; it was my seventh match I'd ever had. I didn't know the difference between a headlock and a beetle throw.
Braun Strowman /
Best Friend
Tagged
Best Family Work
Beetle
Match
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I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.
Chris Cornell / Musician
Eighth Grade
Finished
Showing Up
Alternative
Twice
Eighth
Grade
Ninth
Mainly
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I did a film in Nairobi, Kenya called 'The Last Elephant,' with John Lithgow, Isabella Rosallini, and James Earl Jones. So I was in seventh heaven, alright? About a year later I get a call from my agent and he says they want to see you for this project called Candyman. I thought he was joking so I hung up.
Tony Todd / Actor
Alright
Heaven
Hung
About A Year
Agent
Earl
Elephant
Project
James
John
Joking
Later
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
W. E. B. Du Bois / Historian
Born
Egyptian
Gifted
Greek
Indian
Self Consciousness
Son
Himself
Lets
Revelation
Roman
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Veil
Yields
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In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.
Jess Walter / Author
Breakfast
Junior High
Library
Vague
Named
Champions
Eventually
Grabbed
Grade
Immediately
Junior
Junior High School
Novels
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I learned everything by ear and played all the different instruments. So then I was able to find a guitar. That was, like, in the seventh grade. And then I didn't know how to put my fingers on all the different strings, so I had to figure out how to do it upside down and backwards, and I still play that way today.
Dick Dale / Guitarist
Backwards
Fingers
Instruments
Strings
Upside Down
Ear
Grade
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You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.
Tim Hudson / Baseball Athlete
Likes
Pitching
Sexy
Young Guys
Man Me People
Miss
Cooler
Eighth
Gotten
Older
Guys
Inning
Manager
Preached
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Stud
Swing
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Seven has always been my lucky number. It's on my guitar pick; in sports, that was always the number I was, and 'Riser' is my seventh album. With this album kind of coming to an end and having seven nominations at the ACMs, it feels like a bigger story in play for me, and it's the perfect number. I wouldn't have wanted eight!
Dierks Bentley / Singer
Sports
Bigger
Eight
Feels
Lucky
Perfect
Seven
Always Guitar Me
Album
Coming
Number
Pick
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First time we played together was when I was in seventh grade, he was in eighth. There was a lot of buzz in the city about Jabari Parker, rightfully so. He's obviously a major player. I was just blessed to have him one year ahead of me, so everything I did, he already finished. I've been really blessed to have him by my side.
Jahlil Okafor /
Buzz
Time Together Me
Grade
Parker
Rightfully
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I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
Hunter Hayes / Singer-Songwriter
Christmas
Couple
Demos
Focused
Invited
Mobile
Parent
Shy
Years
Good Music Movies
Finish
Good Thing
Grade
Recording
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I got obsessed with impersonations: impersonating people that I knew - people, not famous people but people like my family. At first, it was just fun; it's always been just fun. But I sort of got to a point in maybe seventh or eighth grade where I started getting heavily involved in drama programs via programs in my high school.
Stephan James /
Famous
Drama
Eighth Grade
High School
Involved
Family Always People
Eighth
Famous People
Grade
Programs
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I was badly bullied when I was in the seventh grade - relentlessly, mercilessly - by a group of 12-year-old girls. And it left me with a determination that no matter what, I had to throw my shoulders back, stick out my chin, and project a sense that no one and nothing could hurt me. That turned out to be a life-changing mistake.
Megyn Kelly / Television Host
Girl
Determination
Hurt
Life Changing
Mistake
Shoulders
Relentlessly
Badly
Chin
Project
Grade
Group
Stick
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Throw
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I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.
Jane Siberry / Singer-Songwriter
Available
Concerts
Good Fortune
Labels
Limelight
Musician
Steam
Traffic
Benefit
Eighth
Released
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The fashion industry is often charged with having kept its blinders on as one Seventh Avenue company after another lost employees to AIDS. Consumers, it was feared, would shun the racks of designers whose names were associated with the disease. And to stand up against AIDS would, in many minds, confirm the business's stereotypical image.
Michael Shnayerson /
Aids
Blinders
Disease
Fashion Industry
Associated
Avenue
Charged
Confirm
Designers
Employees
Feared
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Shun
Stand Up
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