Tess Gerritsen
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CARROT TOP I went to L.A., and I was on two different studio movies at Fox and Sony, but they were never made i... GURINDER CHADHA DAVID BOWIE CRAIG GROESCHEL Anytime I met an actor, I just attacked them and said, 'How did you do this?' Eventually, I ... PATRICK J. ADAMS TAMMY DUCKWORTH ED WEEKS When I decided to go to art school, it wasn't necessarily something I thought I needed. No one t... MICKALENE THOMAS LILY COLLINS That attitude that I wouldn't succeed didn't come from my family; it came from school and th... ALEXIS WRIGHT For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made... MICHAEL GRAVES RITA ORA I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we ... DANIEL WOODRELL DAVID LACHAPELLE Al Jolson was my first husband. He always used to boast that he was spoiling me for any man who migh... RUBY KEELER My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New... LAURA OSNES I just decided that I wasn't going to gain anything by going to school, since we couldn't af... KERRY STOKES My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised. JACK HERER DAN AYKROYD I met my first boyfriend when we were 13, playing 'Dungeons and Dragons' in the basement of ... ALEXANDER CHEE I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend ... ALEXIS DENISOF ARTHUR GOLDEN I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very norm... DIRK BENEDICT GINA RODRIGUEZ I went to engineering school, which I thought was what I wanted to do, for about two weeks. We had a... EVAN GLODELL TOM HOLLAND SHANNON LUCID As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called '... PETER MORGAN KIM CATTRALL KANDYSE MCCLURE I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father... KANIEHTIIO HORN My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN KEVIN KWAN Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a ... DYLAN WALSH I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a ... TOM STURRIDGE I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I ... BRIAN J. WHITE I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weeke... THEO JAMES JOHN DELANEY JULIANNE MOORE My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York... LYNN COLLINS EDDIE VAN HALEN I went to New York for the first time when I was in college for a school trip and, uh, it did not ap... ALLISON TOLMAN LES CLAYPOOL 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 My father used to act in high school. He was in a production of 'Othello;' I don't know ... LUPITA NYONG'O SHAILENE WOODLEY When I was 16, I felt very relieved to discover cinema. It was like an island where I could see life... LEOS CARAX BILL GATES I got some funky scholarships to play soccer and did well in my SATs, so I went off to college and t... DUNCAN JONES My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I star... ROBIN ROBERTS For my family, that was a shameful thing. My mom and sister lived very afraid, and to them, being a ... OSCAR TORRES CHANDLER RIGGS SETH MACFARLANE SIDNEY POITIER JANE GOODALL SUE HUBBELL I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was i... DAMIAN LEWIS SOPHIE HANNAH BRIAN BLESSED BILL WATTERSON My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing ... CARRIE MAE WEEMS ALFIE ALLEN We grew up in a middle-class family in Chicago. Even when we went on vacation as a family, it wasn&#... SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO SIRI HUSTVEDT LIANE MORIARTY KIRSTEN DUNST DON MCLEAN When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you... COLIN QUINN The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I was... DWIGHT SCHULTZ In the kind of New England I'm from, you are expected to stay and marry somebody from New Englan... ELIZABETH STROUT Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS BETHANY HAMILTON I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never g... REMY MA I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in... RUTH RENDELL DAISY RIDLEY I'd lived in Arizona, and I loved Arizona. But I had a husband I was separated from, and a baby to s... LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY I was a 'runaway girl' from France who married an American and moved to New York City. I'... LOUISE BOURGEOIS When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col... STACEY FARBER South Africa is a whole other world. I went to grade school there and high school in Johannesburg, a... JANN KLOSE BLYTHE DANNER CHUCK NORRIS I went to UCLA for a year and a quarter. There were too many students at UCLA interested in what I w... CASEY NICHOLAW There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,'... SAMIRA WILEY Well, when I moved to England I was making a lot of personal adjustments because I was getting marri... ELIZABETH MCGOVERN We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was Fren... JOANNE HARRIS PETER HIGGS Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was be... JOHN MAHONEY I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I marr... DIANE HENDRICKS I'm happy being single but I definitely want someone in my life. I want to eventually get marrie... MATTHEW MORRISON
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I was born in London 1947, after the war. A real wartime baby. I went to school in Brixton, and then... 
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My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work. 
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I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn't going to medical ... 
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