Russell Banks
Novelist
"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
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Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"I was thrown out of NYU for cheating-with the deans wife"
Lady Gaga
Singer, Actress
"I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up."
Woody Allen
Director, Actor, Writer
"My ex-wife was a philosophy major at NYU. Yeah, she and I used to have deep philosophical discussions where she would prove that I didn't exist."
Mahershala Ali
Actor
"Getting to St. Mary's College was a big deal for me because that essentially led to me getting to go to NYU."
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"When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU."
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"My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all? So my grades weren't great, but I feel like, is there any other way that I could have gotten into NYU? I don't know. I think that it definitely worked in my favor in some ways."
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