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I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.
Mike Posner
Family
Me
People
Opportunity
Finish
Sacrificed
Had
Like
Go
Duke
Lot
Owed
Graduated
Place
Them
Realized
When I graduated from high school, I weighed 125 pounds because of wrestling. Suddenly, I realized I could eat whatever I wanted - plus, creatine was new at the time. I went from 125 to 175 pounds, working out like crazy. I was yoked. But I wasn't drinking enough fluids and ended up with a kidney stone - and 3 weeks of pure hell.
Mike Vogel
Time
Crazy
School
Pure
Drinking
Whatever
Hell
Enough
Kidney
Out
High
Eat
Plus
High School
Wrestling
Could
Weeks
Pounds
Weighed
New
Like
Because
Up
Ended
Stone
Graduated
Wanted
Realized
Working
Suddenly
For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.
Mitch Albom
Music
Books
Window
Above
More
Wrote
Years
Office
Graduated
Floor
Basement
Recently
In high school, I majored in brick masonry. We had the wood shop, the machine shop, so I know about all that. I wanted to build buildings when I graduated from high school. I do know my way around that stuff.
Mr. T
School
Build
Way
Machine
High
High School
About
Had
Masonry
Stuff
Know
Around
Buildings
Shop
Graduated
Wood
Wanted
Brick
I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
Nancy Allen
Music
School
Degree
College
Back
Back To School
Musical
Musical Theater
Minute
Having
Pursue
Pursued
Knew
Got
Began
Graduated
Wanted
Theater
Working
Career
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
Narada Michael Walden
School
Year
High
High School
He
Drummer
Died
Graduated
Wanted
Hendrix
When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
Narciso Rodriguez
Time
School
Design
Would
Never
Obviously
Said
Dean
Listen
Graduated
Designer
I played my first ever Test in Kingston in 1990. I'd just graduated from Durham University and there I was, at Sabina Park, playing Test cricket.
Nasser Hussain
First
Cricket
Park
Test
Graduated
Just
Ever
Played
Playing
University
I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.
Nicole Holofcener
School
Half
Year
Later
Columbia
Years
Graduate
Graduate School
Graduated
Then
There And Then
NYU
As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.
Nicole Polizzi
Myself
Me
Happy
People
School
Care
Think
High
High School
Graduated
Anymore
Even
Now
Right
I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.
Noah Baumbach
Me
Experience
School
First
Own
Independent
Out
My Own
Look
Were
Years
Very
Decade
Graduated
Much
Really
I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.
Odette Annable
Time
Great
Class
School
Christian
Everybody
Kids
High
Pretty
High School
Small
Had
Knew
Great Time
Private
Did
Graduated
Loved
Really
My high school in South Bend had nearly a thousand students. Statistically, that means that several dozen were gay or lesbian. Yet, when I graduated in 2000, I had yet to encounter a single openly LGBT student there.
Pete Buttigieg
Gay
School
Single
Lesbian
Bend
Several
High
Thousand
High School
Student
Students
Had
Openly
Were
Encounter
South
Graduated
Means
Nearly
Dozen
I graduated. I did History of Art, you know, all those things - American Studies - and then I went to art school, and I did Joseph Alvarez in the art school.
Peter Beard
Art
History
You
School
Those
Studies
Joseph
Know
Art School
American
Did
Graduated
Then
Things
I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.
Peter Falk
Life
School
My Life
High
High School
No Idea
Had
Idea
Graduate
Going
Graduate School
Graduated
Wanted
Then
Actor
Ever
With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring.
Philip Roth
Life
You
College
Other
Everybody
Fodder
Running
Boring
Menacing
Direction
Had
Involved
Got
Been
Years
Graduated
Just
Stop
Stopped
Which
Plain
Your
Thing
Draft
Two
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.
R. A. Salvatore
Time
Writing
Reading
Bad
Only
Got
Get
Did
Grade
Graduated
Order
By The Time
When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
Rachel Bloom
Me
Director
Writing
School
Comedy
Made
Own
Group
Kind
My Own
Knew
Performing
Graduated
Want
Wanted
Sketch
Sketch Comedy
I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.
Rachel Hollis
School
Hilarious
Year
High
Angeles
High School
Los
Los Angeles
Go
Graduated
Moved
Which
Acting
Acting School
Early
My parents supported me through university, and after I graduated, I got a job as an analyst at a price comparison website called TotallyMoney.com.
Rachel Riley
Website
Me
Job
Parents
Analyst
Through
Price
Supported
Got
Graduated
After
Comparison
University
I broke out of my shell once I graduated from high school and got into college in my first year.
Raheem DeVaughn
School
College
First
Year
Once
Broke
Out
High
High School
Shell
Got
Graduated
I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
Ramon Rodriguez
Sports
Management
Degree
College
Virginia
Because
West
Years
West Virginia
Going
Graduated
Happen
Realized
Then
NBA
NYU
Played
Two
Basketball
I graduated boot camp with meritorious promotion.
Randy Orton
Boot
Boot Camp
Promotion
Camp
Graduated
I went to Detroit Public Schools: Harms Elementary, Bennett, which is now called Phoenix Academy. This is all in Southwest Detroit. I graduated from Southwestern High School, so I'm a 'Prospector,' which is what we used to call each other.
Rashida Tlaib
School
Public Schools
Other
Bennett
Phoenix
High
High School
Detroit
Academy
Schools
Call
Southwest
Graduated
Which
Public
Used
Each
Elementary
Now
When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.
Raul Ruiz
You
World
Amazing
Three
First
Doors
Latino
Harvard
Degrees
Something
Opens
Does
Graduate
The Doors
Graduated
When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
Ray Bradbury
Depression
Money
School
High
High School
Had
Graduated
Graduation
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