Anita Sarkeesian
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OLGA FONDA LANA DEL REY Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well ... MARC DAVIS DAVID LACHAPELLE I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents.... NATHAN FILLION CHARLIE HUNNAM I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out.... AL JOURGENSEN EVA LONGORIA LAURA MVULA 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 I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom... DAVID HYDE PIERCE Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to sch... DAISY BERKOWITZ TOM DOUGLAS I don't attend an actual school but I'm still following through with high school. I do work ... JOJO My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just ... WAYNE BRADY I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school ... JAMES EARL JONES I don't play. I'm a terrible gambler. I don't know half the rules, and I'm not reall... PANSY HO CHRIS EVANS GARY SHEFFIELD Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high sc... COLIN HANKS PETE CARROLL IGGY AZALEA In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn&... FREDDIE PRINZE ANGELA BASSETT MARIE LU JHUMPA LAHIRI YURI KOCHIYAMA Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I ... JESSIE MUELLER ALESSIA CARA I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's ca... KAY GRANGER For a long time, I had this constant feeling that I just wanted to look behind me. 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When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, an... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered m... FRANCES BAY I didn't date my wife in high school, but she was definitely by far the coolest woman there. She... ERIC MABIUS PALMER LUCKEY I feel that through my father's music I've found my own voice in my own playing. DWEEZIL ZAPPA I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother ... ROGER GOODELL In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft dr... JEFF KINNEY I didn't really start going to see a lot of musicals and live theater probably until I was in se... THOMAS KAIL I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinna... WARREN GILES I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my siste... BEN SIMMONS CARLOS SLIM I said to myself a long time ago that I didn't want to be that hanging-on-for-too-long, aging-ro... ERIC AVERY SHANLEY CASWELL Every win that I've been going through, it's been securing anyone's doubts or even my ow... DENIS SHAPOVALOV I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were p... TROMBONE SHORTY ANITA SARKEESIAN PAUL WALKER CHARLES SCHWAB I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain... ICE CUBE I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y... CHARLIE EBERSOL JOSH GAD I didn't stutter when I was reading lines in a script. When I got away from myself, I didn't... PEGGY LIPTON DANIEL DAY-LEWIS BARRY SANDERS J. J. WATT I've stayed away from Twitter for a long time because I sort of didn't trust myself with suc... ELIZABETH REASER I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the ... FELICIA DAY MAHERSHALA ALI BILLY IDOL With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I suppo... BERNHARD GOETZ LAURA MVULA DEAN KARNAZES I ran track in high school. I was a fragile young man, personally and physically. I tried football. ... DANNY PUDI I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him... BARBARA LYNN DAVID BAILEY STEVEN WRIGHT SHANNON LUCID MALCOLM MCLAREN I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been ... PAM DAWBER ANTHONY HOPKINS I remember there were days when - and this is kind of gross - I would sleep in my uniform to save ti... STACEY FARBER
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