Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
James Agee, Novelist (1909) |
L. Sprague De Camp, Author (1907) |
Gavyn Davies, Businessman (1950) |
Nick Ferguson, Athlete (1974) |
Robin Givens, Actress (1964) |
Marilyn Hacker, Poet (1942) |
Caroline Kennedy, Celebrity (1957) |
Callie Khouri, Writer (1957) |
Brooke Langton, Actress (1970) |
Bruce Lee, Actor (1940) |
Edward Bach, Scientist (1936) |
Jerome Cavanagh, Politician (1979) |
Irvin Kershner, Director (2010) |