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AUDIE BLAYLOCK I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer...
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Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. ... BRUNO MARS
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MATT LUCAS
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I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish... BILL AYERS
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way.... FETTY WAP
I don't watch anything of mine much. I haven't gone to drama school, or college, either. I j... LEONARDO DICAPRIO I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa...
AFROJACK
You know, it wasn't even that I'm a funny guy, I just loved stand-up comedy and I wanted to ... BILL BURR
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I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t... SHAILENE WOODLEY
I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i... LEA MICHELE
I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the... JOHN MELLENCAMP I'd seen so many people become stagnant in New Jersey - I had this fear I'd just stay there....
FRANKIE VALLI I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls ...
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I just downloaded '1984' for my iPod, but I've read that before. It just hearkens back t... LUPE FIASCO When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything ...
ERIC CARR
I got into music, I was in a band, I was at art school. I was quite trendy, although I'd hate to... PETER CAPALDI When I was little, I didn't know you got paid for acting. My parents put the money in the bank f...
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo a... RYAN GOSLING I wish I could look back and say, 'OK here was a T.V. show or a movie that I thought was so perf...
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