"One of the greatest moments of my career was on the road promoting 'Superbad' with Michael Cera and Chris Mintz-Plasse. We were showing the movie at colleges."
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"I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea."
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"I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking."
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"In college you can get away with things based off your athletic ability versus some of the other players."
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"A college joke to cure the dumps."
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"A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else"."
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"I studied theater in college, and I absolutely knew that I loved acting, and I knew that I loved theater."
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"In my freshman year of college, when a male professor asked the class, "Who here identifies as a feminist?" Only one girl raised her hand, and the rest of us just sat there. He basically just shamed us for the rest of the class - in a constructive way. He went around the room and said to each girl, "Why didn't you raise your hand? Feminism means men and women deserve the same rights, and that the balance in the world is currently tilted in men's favour."
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"We have some concerns if student financial aid is not keeping pace, and college costs continue to outstrip inflation."
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"In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction."
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"When you finish college, you don’t suddenly have thousands of dollars a year to spend elsewhere - in fact, you have to find a way to pay back your loans."
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"I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid."
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"The career I chose was a drama major in college, at Yale, when I played a 90-year-old woman. One of my most celebrated roles. Then I played a really fat person. I played a lot of different things. That's how I thought I loved to wrangle my talent, my need to express myself. I like to do it that way."
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"Drugs have been in the game for a long time. They were there when I was in college, and even in high school. It's in life. It's in business. It's everywhere."
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"I was an incredibly devoted student, and I would often wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to study. But even so, there were still people who thought that a girl like me with a background like mine wasn't really "college material.""
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"Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost."
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"I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal."
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"I finished high school, so now I'm planning to take a few classes in college when I'm not working."
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"The cool thing about college tours is you make friends with a lot of other artists because the schools come in and they're looking to make a diverse grouping together and then it works out for everyone."
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"I've basically been able to do everything, I basically run my own career and the decisions I make - whether it's how I'm gonna roll out music, how I'm gonna play on tours, different strategies for releasing and marketing things - and that comes from being college educated and someone who's interested in that side of the business rather than only the music. If anything I think that's where the biggest direct influence comes from."
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