Geraldine Brooks
Related My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 ... AMANDA BURTON I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny. CARROT TOP I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home... SONJA SOHN MALIN AKERMAN When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'... FAITH FORD I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec... RANDY HARRISON PATTI SMITH I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn... KSI I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, ... KAREN ROBARDS LEA MICHELE I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle grou... CALLAN MCAULIFFE I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird rec... IAN ANTHONY DALE FRANK BRUNO EMINEM I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and t... ED SPELEERS Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn'... NATASHA LITTLE JUNOT DIAZ LANA DEL REY I wasn't hugely popular at school. In fact, I was bullied at school. SALLY PHILLIPS RACHAEL LEIGH COOK I began drawing when I was nearly 3, and after finishing the sixth grade, I left school to paint and... JAMIE WYETH JAMES CORDEN ROBERT DAVID HALL ANGELA BASSETT BEN SCHNETZER HARRY SHUM, JR. In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart a... DAVID SPADE I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite ... DANIEL WOODRELL When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, an... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes... OLESYA RULIN I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was so... AMANDA SEYFRIED BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN NICOLA ADAMS MAGGIE STIEFVATER DAISY RIDLEY But I didn't really enjoy my secondary education that much, probably because I am a very physica... AMANDA BURTON I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in schoo... DYLAN O'BRIEN SHANNON LUCID I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well un... LAUREN TARSHIS What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but i... NATHAN SAWAYA ROBIN WILLIAMS PETE CARROLL LES CLAYPOOL In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn&... FREDDIE PRINZE KEKE PALMER PHILIPPE PETIT When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good stu... THOMAS MCDONELL I was home-schooled. My mom wasn't a fan of public school systems. BRITT ROBERTSON SHANLEY CASWELL I didn't do plays at school, because I didn't have the confidence. At 14, I was at boarding ... JOSEPH MAWLE I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started ... GARY NUMAN BEN SCHNETZER WHIT STILLMAN CLINT EASTWOOD I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get a... ODEYA RUSH I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y... CHARLIE EBERSOL DAPHNE OZ I didn't really start going to see a lot of musicals and live theater probably until I was in se... THOMAS KAIL I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a n... ADAM RAPP BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I think I was a bit naive when I was younger. I don't know what it was: I sort of felt tunnel vi... JENNA DEWAN CHRISTINE TEIGEN VIRAT KOHLI STANLEY KUBRICK I didn't have boyfriends until my late teens. I was at a girls' boarding school, and my step... PATTIE BOYD I wasn't very good at school and couldn't get my head round it. TAMER HASSAN I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that ... ALAN JACKSON LOUIS C. K. CHARLES SCHWAB EMILIA FOX JIMMI SIMPSON I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I wa... LIZZY CAPLAN OMARI HARDWICK STEVEN WRIGHT I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it wa... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS KELSEA BALLERINI GWEN STEFANI BARBARA CORCORAN I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to sch... DAISY BERKOWITZ JOHN GALLIANO I loved American filmmakers when I was growing up. I didn't get to film school or anything. I wa... PAUL HAGGIS The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g... ADEPERO ODUYE I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju... LA'PORSHA RENAE ANTHONY HOPKINS I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, muc... ROGER BART MICHAEL KEATON JESSIE J I went to boarding school in Somerset and loved it so much that my teachers had to make me phone hom... ELLA EYRE We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was Fren... JOANNE HARRIS I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinna... WARREN GILES KANDYSE MCCLURE HUGH LAURIE CHRIS CRUTCHER TAYLOR SWIFT I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, sin... HAMILTON E. JAMES WARWICK DAVIS JESSE BALL ZENDAYA
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