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I'd been writing sketches since high school, but 'Friends of the People' really taught me about structure - how to wait out a joke, how to stick with it for a while. It also made me more confident onstage as a performer.
Jermaine Fowler
Me
People
Writing
School
Wait
Made
Joke
Out
High
High School
About
Structure
More
Onstage
Performer
Since
Also
Stick
How
Been
Friends
Confident
Taught
While
Sketches
Really
I was always causing trouble in school. Doing impressions of Bart Simpson, interrupting class - I liked the attention and entertaining people.
Jermaine Fowler
Class
People
School
Trouble
Entertaining
Entertaining People
Simpson
Attention
Liked
Always
Doing
Causing
Impressions
Bart
Interrupting
No kid ever graduated school and said, 'I want to go into advertising.' Advertising is almost everyone's second or third choice.
Jerry Della Femina
School
Everyone
Kid
Almost
Advertising
Said
Go
Graduated
Want
Choice
Ever
Second
Third
I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
Jerry Doyle
School
Thought
Down
Flying
Those
Out
Kind
High
High School
About
Beach
Never
Checking
Daytona
Doing
Go
Just
Just One
Used
Skip
Flight
Cool
Profession
Cool Thing
Found
Thing
Things
Started
University
Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
Jerry Saltz
Today
War
Art
You
World
School
First
Worldwide
Visit
Would-Be
Find
Remarkably
Abstract
Although
Up
Art School
American
Heated
Any
Done
Movement
Influence
After
Short-Lived
Expressionism
World War
World War II
I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.
Jerry Trainor
Funny
School
Thought
Live
Way
Definitely
Musicals
High
High School
About
Knew
Know
Comedies
How
Doing
Go
Wanted
Loved
Sketches
Then
Found
Actor
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Night
Plays
When I went to school, it was to be an electrical engineer. I graduated with a degree in industrial management and worked in trucking for a couple of years. Then I decided that I was bored with the trucking industry and that I would go back to graduate school.
Jeryl Prescott
Management
School
Engineer
Degree
Back
Would
Bored
Industrial
Couple
Industry
Go
Years
Graduate
Graduate School
Graduated
Decided
Then
Worked
Electrical
In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.
Jess Walter
Love
Library
Book
School
Sense
Breakfast
Seventh
Immediately
High
Would
See
Some
High School
Someone
Writer
Named
Fell
Kurt
Grabbed
Junior
Junior High
Junior High School
Grade
Where
Wanted
After
Novels
Eventually
Right
Champions
Vague
I feel like I owe Juilliard everything... coming from Kentucky at age 17, having a school like that giving me a chance. And if you can't afford it, you can get a scholarship.
Jess Weixler
Me
You
Age
School
Giving
Everything
Having
Scholarship
Feel
Like
Coming
Juilliard
Owe
Afford
Get
Kentucky
Chance
You show up at high school, there's all these kids you don't know, and you're terrified that people will have some kind of wrong or unpleasant impression of you. You just don't want anything to ruin your public persona, because you actually have a public persona in high school.
Jesse Andrews
You
People
School
Will
Ruin
Kids
Kind
High
Unpleasant
Some
High School
Wrong
Know
Terrified
Because
Impression
Up
Persona
Just
Want
Anything
Public
Your
Show
Actually
I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I tried to make it as a musician. I lived in a big squalid house full of dudes outside of Boston. We were all musicians. We built this studio in the basement and played there all hours of the day.
Jesse Andrews
Music
Day
Musicians
School
College
Big
Jazz
Other
Musician
High
Tried
High School
Boston
Outside
Studio
Stuff
Hours
House
Make
Around
Built
Dudes
Were
After
Full
Lived
Basement
Played
Started
Playing
I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.
Jesse Andrews
Life
Time
Great
People
Wonderful
School
Types
High
Hated
Pretty
High School
Diverse
Various
Stuff
Along
Period
Got
Still
Lot
Going
Just
Where
Pittsburgh
Interesting
Really
Groups
Rough
The school plays needed kids that were big and bold and weren't afraid to be on stage, and I fit that bill, so I was expected to do it. And then I went to college, and the exact same thing happened.
Jesse Johnson
School
College
Big
Same Thing
Stage
Kids
Exact
School Plays
Were
Fit
Expected
Same
Afraid
Happened
Then
Bill
Bold
Thing
Needed
Plays
I always had to have a job in the summer when I was at school. It was about teaching me, and my brother and sisters, a good work ethic and making sure we knew there were no handouts. We had to find our own way in this world.
Jesse Johnson
Work
Good
Me
World
School
Job
Good Work
Own
Our
Summer
Way
Find
Brother
About
Had
Knew
Sure
Always
Making
Were
Sisters
Work Ethic
Ethic
Teaching
Acting was always something I loved doing, but I didn't know that I would pursue it professionally. I really loved doing plays at school, but I was in a rock band and ended up going to a school for music.
Jesse Johnson
Music
School
Band
Would
Something
Pursue
Know
Rock
Always
Rock Band
Doing
Up
Ended
Going
Loved
Really
Acting
Professionally
Plays
I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.
Jesse McCartney
Class
School
Relatively
High
High School
Small
Take
Students
Had
Until
Around
Normal
Normal Childhood
Off
Very
Childhood
Graduating
Public
Turned
Lived
Things
Started
In middle school, I played quarterback. I was at a tiny school, so you played offense and defense - I played linebacker, and in high school I stopped playing around my sophomore year because of my acting stuff.
Jesse Plemons
You
School
Year
Defense
High
High School
Stuff
Sophomore
Sophomore Year
Because
Around
Quarterback
Offense
Tiny
Stopped
Middle
Middle School
Acting
Played
Playing
I grew up in a tiny town in Texas, so I understood the world of high school football.
Jesse Plemons
World
School
High
High School
Football
Town
Understood
Texas
Up
Tiny
Grew
When I was doing 'Neighbours,' I was aiming to go to university, then go to med school, but I realised I could make a better living from acting.
Jesse Spencer
Better
School
Living
Aiming
Neighbours
Could
Make
Doing
Go
Realised
Then
Acting
University
I was not a good student; I was an average student. In order to play basketball and baseball, I had to go to school every day. And so I was pretty good in terms of attending school.
Jesse White
Good
Day
Every Day
School
Every
Pretty
Pretty Good
Good Student
Student
Had
Attending
Terms
Go
Order
Average
Baseball
Play
Play Basketball
Basketball
There are a lot of young people out there who need to start using their idle time in a positive way. Parents need to play an important role in making sure their children succeed in school.
Jesse White
Positive
Time
People
School
Parents
Important
Young
Positive Way
Way
Out
Sure
Idle
Important Role
Making
Lot
Role
Children
Young People
Succeed
Who
Using
Play
Start
Need
I'm very grateful and fully aware that 90 percent of actors are not working. Going from public school teacher to a show like 'Grey's Anatomy', I love what I do.
Jesse Williams
Love
Teacher
Grateful
School
Anatomy
Percent
School Teacher
Like
Very
Going
Grey
Greys Anatomy
Public
Working
Show
Fully
Public School
Actor
Aware
I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
Jesse Williams
Work
Myself
Home
Me
History
People
School
Parents
Gave
Define
System
Horrible
About
More
School System
Learn
Got
How
Up
Than
Did
The History Of
Grew
Them
Really
Function
Ever
I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.
Jesse Williams
Work
Law
School
Thought
To Be Honest
Out
Law School
Done
Work Out
Acting
Medical
Medical School
Honest
I like characters and stories that challenge the status quo. Lately, I'm really interested in history because I find that in my public school education, I didn't learn about women in history. I want to introduce the world to some great stories and incredible heroes.
Jessica Chastain
Education
Great
History
Women
World
School
Challenge
Heroes
Incredible
Lately
Characters
Introduce
Status
Status Quo
Find
Some
About
Great Stories
Like
Learn
Because
Want
Quo
Stories
Interested
Public
Really
Public School
I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.
Jessica Chastain
Life
Time
Learning
School
Thought
My Life
First
Stupid
About
Inspired
Had
Until
Well
Because
Felt
First Time
Got
Passionate
Juilliard
Maybe
Oh
Public
Public School
Actually
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