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"I always grew up around acting. I did commercials as a kid and all that kind of stuff and my oldest brother did theatre in High School. It's funny, when I was 15 I had a friend of mine who dragged me away to a camp at Boston University. It was the first time truthfully that acting didn't feel presentational; it felt very personal. I didn't just feel like I was singing and dancing for my friends in High School. It felt like I was doing a scene and all of a sudden I started to feeling something - I started to feel emotional."

Kids School Brother
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Patti Smith Musician
School

"I was like one of the boys in school who flap their legs frantically under the desk. I always had this weird feeling between my legs and I had no idea what it was. I didn't know girls masturbated. I never touched myself or anything."

School Girl Boys
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Patti Smith Musician
School

"I didn't want any middle-of-the-road creep. I always wanted the toughest guy in school, the guy from south Philly who wore tight black pants. Y'know, the guy who carried the umbrella and wore white shirts with real thin black ties. I was really nuts over this guy named Butchie Magic 'cause he let me carry his switchblade."

Real School White
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Patti Smith Musician
School

"I started going to Bible school really early in life. Being raised a Jehovah's Witness, I had to read the Bible over and over. These stories were so horrifying and really difficult to reconcile. For me, Noah wasn't the story of the graham cracker box with the little animals it was horrifying. I would ask the same questions as a child. "Well, what about the little kids? What about the dogs and cats?""

Children School Dog
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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
School

"I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem."

Believe School Meditation
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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
School

"My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students."

Art School Use
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Paul McCartney Musician, Singer-songwriter
School

"You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years."

Years School Teenage
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Paul Starr Sociologist
School

"Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human behavior and treat politics as if it were a pale imitation of the market, democracy will, indeed, make no sense."

School Choices Rights
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School

"In high school, my first thing ever was I played Tony in West Side Story when I was about 17. I was a really shy kid and I just like forced myself to learn how to sing this one month because I loved West Side Story so much and I somehow managed to get the role. I had an afro and glasses, and the guy who cast me goes, "All right, the first thing to go is the afro and the next thing, I'm going to buy you contacts and we're going to get you..." So he kind of molded me into what it had to - that's still probably the hardest role I've every played in anything, the most taxing role."

Kids School Guy
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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
School

"The subordinate's job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual."

Book Jobs School
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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
School

"Schools will change more in the next 30 years than they have since the invention of the printed book."

Book School Morning
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Portia de Rossi Actress
School

"In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me."

School Girl Sex
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Portia de Rossi Actress
School

"At my high school graduation, I graduated from home school, so it was pregnant teens and gang members. But, when I got on stage, there were kids in the background who all screamed, "Marry me!," very loud."

Home Kids School
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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
School

"I was there [in school] the full time with one teacher, and the student body was never more than 10 or 12 students of all ages."

School Age Teacher
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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
School

"At the end of the elementary program, I then had to move onto high school. Simultaneously, my parents moved to Attica to a suburban area not far from the well-known Attica State Prison. Then I would take the school bus which was a very short distance away, where I was involved with a much larger community."

Moving School Distance
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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
School

"Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts."

School Drawing Awards
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Paul Smith Fashion Designer
School

"At school there were some programs in music. I did take piano lessons, and we had a piano at home. I got very interested in that."

Home School Piano
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