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De Niro tells NY arts graduates 'You have to keep working'

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert De Niro urged new graduates at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts on Friday to keep fighting to create careers in the arts even though it probably would have been easier if they had picked something more practical. Maybe they were passionate about accounting, but I think it's more likely they used reason and logic and common sense to research a career, the two-time Academy Award winner said. De Niro, who quit high school to pursue an acting career, was the honored speaker at the raucous ceremony for 1,200 graduates at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. The actor's 15-minute speech was peppered with expletives as he warned that many in the audience — future directors, actors, producers, musicians, singers, dancers, choreographers, filmmakers, writers and photographers — faced a lifetime of rejection ahead. Before De Niro got to the microphone, Diane C.

 

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