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I went to law school after college. -- Kevin Heffernan
I studied cooking in Spain after college. -- Jose Garces
I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college. -- R. L. Stine
I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college. -- Moira Kelly
When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York. -- Marla Maples
When I got back into the film business after college, I started out as a production assistant. -- Mike Lookinland
I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things. -- Jackie Kennedy
For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer. -- Dylan Lauren
I went through this very serious Woody Allen phase in college and a little bit after college. I still see his movies. -- Josh Radnor
Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college. -- Anna Chlumsky
College baseball, I love it. I love to work with the younger kids who are trying to live out their dreams, if in fact that's what they plan on doing after college to take the next step. -- Roger Clemens
42% of college graduates never read a book after college. -- John C. Maxwell
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always wanted to be an anchorman, but after college I wound up working behind the scenes at CBS News for 10 years. -- Andy Cohen
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven. -- Janet Echelman
I never did drama in high school or anything like that. I just kind of fell into it after college, and I pursued it on my own. -- Ki Hong Lee
I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training. -- James Nachtwey
Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician. -- Andy Kindler
Later after college I discovered Gang of Four, Buzzcocks, and those kind of bands. My tastes have changed but I still carry a lot of the influences from my youth. -- Page Hamilton
I got on a Dostoyevsky kick right after college. I started with 'Crime and Punishment,' went on to 'The Possessed' and then 'The Brothers Karamazov' and 'The Idiot.' -- Charlie Trotter
I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college. -- Brett Dennen
I went to Mexico for three months after college and studied Spanish there. And I went to Cuba and studied at the University of Havana. I loved studying in other countries. -- Andrea Navedo
What brought me to L.A. was work! I moved to Chicago after college - I went to Kalamazoo - did my nerd thing, graduated, and moved to Chicago to pursue improv. -- Steven Yeun
It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show. -- Dick Cavett
I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college. -- Colson Whitehead
I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when I was twelve or something. I was reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond. -- Leni Zumas
I left my home in Massachusetts after college to move to New York City to pursue my dreams of acting. I took roles for free. I waited tables. I didn't care because it was work. -- Uzo Aduba
I lived in New York for a long time. Right after college I went there. So I got my first cell phone in New York. Back when you would flip the phone up. Way back when. -- Stephanie Beatriz
I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy. -- Billy Eichner
I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me. -- Gina Prince-Bythewood
Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp. -- Jessi Klein
I grew up on a dairy farm in Southeastern Connecticut, and I went into the Peace Corps right after college. I went to Ghana. I fell in love with Africa and have basically been working in Africa ever since. -- Bruce Wilkinson
The time after college and before music was really rough. I couldn't afford food. I was eating bread and butter for five months. Living in New Orleans, I couldn't afford to take care of myself. I had no health insurance. -- Benjamin Booker
As an adult after college and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct. -- Alfre Woodard
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun. -- Jacqueline Winspear
We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted. -- Ranbir Kapoor
I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat. -- Aziz Ansari
I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life. -- Allison Williams
It wasn't until after college that I started writing. I had just applied randomly for jobs in the media and got one on a magazine called 'Pensions World.' So I was writing for a living there and that's when I started my first book. -- Sophie Kinsella
It's true you have to screen out a lot living in the city. I stayed away from New York for a long time after college, and when I was first back, I'd read The Village Voice and feel like I was having a panic attack. -- Lynne Tillman
My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me. -- Vijay Mallya
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine. -- Judith Krantz
My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology. -- Susan Wojcicki
For seven years after college, I was a waitress at the Buttercup Bakery in Berkeley, and from there I got a job at Merrill Lynch as an account executive, from where I went to vice president of investments for Prudential-Bache Securities. I started my own firm in 1987. -- Suze Orman
From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college. I thought, "That's not actually something you do with your life." But then I was compelled to try it after college. I just got overcome. -- Lisa Kudrow
When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards. -- Bruce Wilkinson
My dad is a singer, so it was always either music or acting with me. All the way up through college I was doing both, and even after college I was in a reggae band. Then the acting really started taking off, so the music had to become a hobby. -- Coby Bell
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college. -- Lloyd Alexander
The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree. -- Arne Duncan
After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans. -- Phyllis Schlafly
After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college. -- Chris Rock
In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction. -- Mary-Louise Parker
Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it. -- Sherrod Brown
Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school. -- Michael N. Castle
I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street. -- Henry Kravis
After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed. -- Aaron Tveit
I never expected to leave college early-especially after just one year. -- Chris Bosh
I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college. -- Winston Churchill
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out. -- Mark Twain
Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note! -- Bob Monkhouse
My advice to the college kids would be make sure you get your degree and then go after the dream. -- Cung Le
After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree. -- Jason Najum
After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought. -- Tod Machover
Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund. -- Liam Aiken
After college, I wanted to learned about myself as an American, so I left the United States and went to Japan. -- Bruce Feiler
After I graduated from college, while traveling around Europe, hitchhiking, doing the tourist thing, I went into a church in Dublin. -- Frederica Mathewes-Green
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
After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes. -- Noam Chomsky
I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it. -- Heather Doerksen
I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me. -- Steve Albini
A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter. -- Simon Newcomb
I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he. -- Laura Bates
I went to college as a theater major. But after about three weeks of that, I changed to the school of fine arts as a painter. -- Dan Fogelberg
After high school and a year of College I made a half-hearted attempt at professional skiing in Aspen, Colorado and then found myself back in Flint. -- Doug Rice
So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school. -- Robert Barry
[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies. -- Gloria Estefan
I'm a 27-year-old freshman, and returning to college after a seven-year break from high school was by far the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. -- Hannah Kearney
I joined an improv group in college, which was a lot of fun. After I graduated, I moved to Chicago to try to get into the Second City. -- Steve Carell
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1.40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be. -- Gary Shteyngart
Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley! -- Ban Ki-moon
After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business. -- Lara Spencer
After college, I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director. -- Justin Chadwick
A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready. -- Jeb Bush
After college, I drove across the country twice with friends. It was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. I find it really inspiring seeing the country that way. -- Gia Coppola
After college, rather than pursue real work, I joined a folk group and sang in coffee houses and nightclubs, an occupation that does little for the intellect and even less for the complexion. -- Marshall Brickman

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