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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

— Paula Fox

I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.

— Les Baxter

I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work…

— Rosamund Pike

I remember my mother doing housework until four in the morning and then a couple of hours later taking me to school.

— Toyah Willcox

I was taught to work for what I wanted to achieve in life.

— Mustard

I was a broke student whose car broke down every day who could barely afford to eat and was trying to make money for…

— Evangeline Lilly

The funniest memory that I can recall about my school days has to be one incident that involved unfinished homework for numerous days. I…

— Karan Patel

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

— Alex Toth

I was a real unfocused academic student, always fiddling around in class, or doing something silly and thinking of something else that had nothing…

— Adriano Zumbo

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

— Jeremy Bonderman

I realized that I had the ability to carve out a life for myself, that it was in no way limited by what had…

— Liz Murray

Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson