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• There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

  Walter Jerry Payton

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• I didn’t care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

  James Patterson

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• I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.

  Alexandra Patsavas

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• When I first thought of the idea for ‘Sweet Valley High,’ I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from ‘Sleeping Beauty’-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided – and indeed it is.

  Francine Pascal

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• I never really wore makeup in high school; I wasn’t really into it yet, which is probably good.

  Megan Park

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• You go from high school, to the NBA, and you’re thrown in the fire.

  Dwight Howard

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• I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

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• I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn’t go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

  Tim Heidecker

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• When I was in high school in the ’50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.

  Robert Hass

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• It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.

  Serge Haroche

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• My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.

  Ian Harding

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• I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It’s a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

  Chad Harbach

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• Every dude in your high school wasn’t striving to be the best poet because then he’d get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

  Chad Harbach

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  Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

  Rachel Maddow

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• I like reading. I just hate school.

  Armie Hammer

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• I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

  Mia Hamm

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• I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn’t really there in my high school.

  Matt Damon

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• I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn’t go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

  Charlie Hunnam

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• In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.

  Julie Courtney Sullivan

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• I’ve been writing since I’m five years old. I’ve been writing books since high school – junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I’d be published.

  Karrine Steffans

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