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Aomawa Shields: When an Actor is Starstruck

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Importance of Choice in Life

When did it strike you that you wanted to act? I had done some acting in the fifth grade but it was always this little like extra thing. And then when I was shown the movie space camp with my the rest of my seventh grade class and I saw a movie about kids that get accidentally launched into space. Space shuttle I thought wow I want to do that and that really set me on a track. At the end of high school I finally had to make a choice. You know I tried to make my my home in astronomy at MIT and in the sciences and there was something missing.

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