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  • Best line from her bio: Peach made her first garment in fourth grade while in the 4-H club ... the selftaught designer won many blue ribbons at the county fair.

    Una LaMarche: Meet The Project Runway Season 8 Contestants 2010

  • Best line from her bio: Peach made her first garment in fourth grade while in the 4-H club... the selftaught designer won many blue ribbons at the county fair.

    Una LaMarche: Meet The Project Runway Season 8 Contestants Una LaMarche 2010

  • A. HA.RIS: Part Cherokee, part Indiana Jones, he's a selftaught caver, who's been hunting for Eric since 1998.

    CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2002 2002

  • A. HA.RIS: Part Cherokee, part Indiana Jones, he's a selftaught caver, who's been hunting for Eric since 1998.

    CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2001 2001

  • Aside from Franklin, the original members included a well-read scrivener with a talent for verse; a selftaught mathematician, “great in his own way,” who later became a notable inventor: a merchant with an interest in philosophy; and so on.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • Aside from Franklin, the original members included a well-read scrivener with a talent for verse; a selftaught mathematician, “great in his own way,” who later became a notable inventor: a merchant with an interest in philosophy; and so on.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • It's not surprising to see that icons directly out of cinema schools, such as Spielberg and Lucas, are directly related to the industry, the money, the technique (and therefore a lower form of art), while troubled selftaught geniuses like Pasolini and Kubrick are recognized as real inventors.

    cafebabel.com 2010

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