10 terrific pieces of advice – from celebrities to their teenage selves
From "Dear Me," edited by Joseph Galliano, stars write letters to themselves at age 16
3. Aasif Mandvi
The "Daily Show" correspondent wrote, "You have just moved from the U.K. to the U.S. and I know that you're lost, you feel foreign, you feel like an outsider, but guess what. It is that very foreignness, that outsiderness, that feeling of being 'other' that is your power... try to get better grades and go to a better university. You won't, but hey, at least I told you."



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