"I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation."

Graduation, Thought, School, Study

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"I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation."

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"I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation."

Maureen Forrester, Canadian Musician

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"A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick."

Moira Kelly, American Actress

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"At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers."

Peter Jurasik, American Actor

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"I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting."

Olivia Wilde, American Actress

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"A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."

Robert Orben, American Entertainer

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"The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner."

Martha Reeves, American Musician

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"It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor."

James D'arcy, British Actor

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"When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing."

Woman, Women, Mother, Christian, Baseball

"I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family."

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"By the time I was four, I would walk around the corner and wait at a local streetcar stop, get on the streetcar with somebody who looked like they could be my mother and go to the end of the line."

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"I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation."

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"Singing beautiful melodies is one thing, but to deliver the text so that the people understand it, even in a foreign language, has to be worked at very hard."

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"My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about."

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"I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me."

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"My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar."

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