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I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental.
While still a young student at film school, I was lucky enough to get a golden ticket to a Martin Scorsese master class at BAFTA in Piccadilly: fancy, but technically still 'the flicks'.
During the 1942 Quit India Movement, I was a student at Gwalior High School. I was arrested by the British for participating in the movement. My parents then sent me off to my village where, again, I jumped into the movement.
I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.
New Kids On The Block were never my thing; my middle school crush was on Rob Van Winkle.
I always had amazing food around the dinner table, a beautiful house to live in, cool clothes to wear to school, and help with my homework. I am so lucky.
The sum total of what I learned about African American culture in school was Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Underground Railroad. This was more than my mom knew; she didn't even see a black person in real life until she was 18 years old.
My mum put me into the Sylvia Young Theatre School aged four, and I'd go there at weekends.
Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.
'Rocking With Leroy' used to come on when I would come in from school. It was a very, very big R&B broadcast of the day when I was a young girl. And I would come in and put my books down, lie down on the floor, and listen to 'Rocking With Leroy.'
At the age of eight, I went to a boarding school in Devlali and would come home only during holidays. I have never interacted much with my parents.
I guess my earliest football memories are of playing in the street and also the little pitches at school. I joined the local football team in my village when I was small, but we would play only once or twice a week. I honed my skills just by playing for fun with friends after school.
I was cornered in a bathroom at a Hollywood event and someone told me I took their job from them. And that, to me, was an only-in-Hollywood moment. That never happened to me in high school - no one ever cornered me and said, 'You took my boyfriend.' I guess I didn't have that problem.
If you would have said, in law school, would it be more likely that I would be working on a book or on a TV show, I would have said book.
My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.
As a family, we didn't get into the celebrity thing. That's not what we wanted for the boys. We wanted them to play everything they could, be involved in as many school events as they could.
I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.
There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.
As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.
I went to law school with President Obama.
I never really did that well in school because I was so absorbed with doing acting.
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