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Alexander Payne to University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Class of 2018:
"My parents absolutely hammered me to be a lawyer, but I had been movie-crazy since I was a little kid, and it was all I could think about. As a senior in college, I applied to film school, my thought being that even if I sucked at it, at least I could go to my grave knowing I had tried it. [My parents] kept repeating the single worst advice in the world, which is, 'Go to law school first so you'll always have something to fall back on.'
In fact, the opposite is true: Do what you want to do first because you can always fall back on going to law school. These years right now … are the precious years when you're done with school and you can get out in the world and try any damn thing you want."
"My parents absolutely hammered me to be a lawyer, but I had been movie-crazy since I was a little kid, and it was all I could think about. As a senior in college, I applied to film school, my thought being that even if I sucked at it, at least I could go to my grave knowing I had tried it. [My parents] kept repeating the single worst advice in the world, which is, 'Go to law school first so you'll always have something to fall back on.'
In fact, the opposite is true: Do what you want to do first because you can always fall back on going to law school. These years right now … are the precious years when you're done with school and you can get out in the world and try any damn thing you want."
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