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“It’ll squash aspiring teachers, individuals who feel called to do this work.... It will yank teachers out of school and away from kids who deserve every investment in their education, in their future.”

“I’m an aspiring novelist, and it made me feel like a book character,” Brown says while offering a scone in her cozy living room.

Born in Tacoma, Wash., the one-time high school choir president was an aspiring rock star who hung around at a Guns N’ Roses concert to hand a demo tape to Axl Rose.

Growing up in Hollywood with aspiring actors, musicians and starstruck fans also makes for endless drama.

The "9-5" singer met Dean outside a laundromat on the first day she arrived in Nashville as an 18-year-old aspiring singer.