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George Clooney

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
634 total appearances

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George Clooney

And we knew how things were going.

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George Clooney

And now every time I go out to dinner with my friends, and they'll tell you, every two a man, they would all say, you know, the first thing I order is a shrimp cocktail.

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George Clooney

And my friends go, having a good week?

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George Clooney

And I go, yeah, good week.

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George Clooney

I'm addicted to it simply because it, to me, somehow in the back of my head represents doing okay.

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George Clooney

Yeah, I lacked skill.

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George Clooney

I studied journalism in college.

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George Clooney

I was at Northern Kentucky University at the time studying journalism.

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George Clooney

And because I was Nick Clooney's son in Cincinnati, I got to cover a couple of... I got to do a couple of, like, reports.

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George Clooney

You know, one on the Cincinnati Bengals were playing in the Super Bowl.

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George Clooney

And I was allowed at...

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George Clooney

19 years old, to do something that other people would have worked for years to have gotten the skill to do.

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George Clooney

I jumped ahead in the line because I was Nick's son.

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And I was really, really bad at it.

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George Clooney

I didn't understand how to follow up and ask questions.

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George Clooney

I didn't understand how to close.

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George Clooney

And I realized that I was never going to be as good as my father was.

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George Clooney

and i was going to be held and i was going to be compared to him because rightfully so i was the only reason i got there was because of my father and so i had to quit that job you know immediately uh and try to find something else to do which i didn't know what to do i uh i sold uh ladies shoes at mcalpin's department store and i sold insurance door-to-door which is not a fun job