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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.

— Abbi Jacobson

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance.

— Merritt Wever

I wanted to go to a liberal arts college, I wanted to have that experience.

— Mandy Patinkin

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

— Charlie Trotter

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

— Len Wein

I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

— Natalie Babbitt

I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.

— Mia Wasikowska

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

— Ray Harryhausen

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

— Andrew Rannells

✗Opposing Perspectives

As soon as I went to painting school in New York, I took an experimental film course, and everything clicked and came together. I realized my love of music and drama and the visual arts all came together. This happened in 1989. Since then, it's been a long road of educating myself in every possible way.

— Patty Jenkins

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.

— Jonathan Hickman