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Octavia Spencer Actress, Producer
School

"I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone."

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Nancy Allen Actress
School

"I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater."

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Mackenzie Davis Actress
School

"I went to theater school, and if I spent time with one school of thought in this whole acting game, it's the Meisner approach of improvise-based acting. This does not mean that you improvise your acting, but that you focus on the other person."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
School

"The whole point of what I do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, I wanna create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate because I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak, so I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel alone."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
School

"I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today, I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my shows."

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Lady Gaga Singer, Actress
School

"The only thing that I am concerned with in life is being an artist .. I had to suppress for so many years in high school because I was made fun of but now I'm completely insulated in my box of insanity and I can do whatever I like."

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Kami Garcia Author
School

"I'd ridden to school with Link every day since kindergarten, when we became best friends after he gave me half his Twinkie on the bus. I only found out later it had fallen on the floor."

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Kami Garcia Author
School

"What did you do to Amma?" "I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his. "Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?" "Started out sharp and then she sharpened it."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
School

"I know I wasn't allowed to go to fashion school; I can't cut a dress like Galliano, right? But I had enough wherewithal to go to that studio on my first collection and bring Kim, [stylist] Christine Centenera, Ian Connor, Theophilus London, Virgil Abloh...they all came down to [Vetements/Balenciaga designer] Demna Gvasalia's studio that night and hung out."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
School

"I fervently believe that, as someone has said before, "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures."

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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
School

"People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
School

"Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
School

"I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school."

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
School

"If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!"

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J. K. Rowling Novelist, Screenwriter
School

"Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about."

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