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But in college I could feel my body changing, and I kn... AARON SCHOCK I went to film school at Columbia and did that for a couple years and really thought I was going to ... SCOTT ADSIT 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 I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn'... ALTON BROWN Being an actress wasn't realistic. I knew that I was going to have to do it in a way that would ... GINA RODRIGUEZ I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like ... JAMES PATTERSON I didn't know what gay was. There was no such thing when I was growing up. I knew I had crushes ... KEVYN AUCOIN I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like ever... JAMES MCGREEVEY When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you... 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AMY ADAMS I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It ... ROBERT KIYOSAKI I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know ... SALLY FIELD After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community co... CHRIS ROCK I could've played basketball, but my mind was on baseball. I didn't know what I was in for. ... ERIC DAVIS I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school. CHARLES S. DUTTON I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film unti... SPIKE LEE I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-... LINDSAY LOHAN I was horribly shy all through grade school and high school. But somehow I got up the nerve to audit... LAURIE METCALF I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do... DONALD TRUMP, JR. 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I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to gradu... SHANNON LUCID I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 yea... STANLEY KUBRICK Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... 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NANCY THAYER The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serend... NANCY THAYER Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll b... NANCY SINATRA I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to. NANCY SINATRA I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked a... NANCY SINATRA I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound. NANCY SINATRA I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house. NANCY SINATRA I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attentio... NANCY SINATRA I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family too... NANCY SINATRA His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the ... NANCY SINATRA Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them. NANCY SINATRA Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip... NANCY SINATRA I think I've finally proven something to people who were cynical about me. Because they were cru... NANCY SINATRA After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird sit... NANCY SINATRA There are a lot of people who would laugh at the idea of me being a good singer. NANCY SINATRA Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his ... NANCY SINATRA It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised. NANCY SINATRA I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never go... NANCY SINATRA I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music. NANCY SINATRA Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey op... NANCY SINATRA The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It... NANCY SINATRA I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and... NANCY SINATRA After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these l... NANCY SINATRA What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else,... NANCY SINATRA I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of creden... NANCY SINATRA I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research uni... NANCY ROMAN