In a 1998 school yearbook, printed over a selection of riddles and opposite an account of a geography fieldwork trip, 16-year-old Kerry Condon predicted she might one day make it to the Oscars.
She was a fifth-year student at the Ursuline Secondary School in Thurles, Co Tipperary, at the time.
Her article, which comes to around 300 words, is an account of her first-ever movie premiere, attending The Man in the Iron Mask in Dublin.
She writes with wit and charm about her teen crush on Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred in the movie, about the thrill of getting her hair and make-up done and donning her "new outfit" for the premiere - and about her nerves and how she was "bursting to go to the loo" by the time she hit the red carpet.
So far, so normal from a teenager attending an event alongside A-listers, but the piece highlights something else that perhaps has helped set Condon apart throughout her career, and that is a determination to do whatever she puts her mind to.
First, she had to get to the premiere.
This began with a series of letters to one of DiCaprio's co-stars in the film, Irish actor Gabriel Byrne.
"After 9 .32p stamps I finally got my reply, it was from his agent saying he was out of the country and unable to respond to my request. Not letting this opportunity slip through my fingers I began writing to her every day..." she wrote.
While Condon had hoped for tickets to the London premiere, she succeeded in wangling one to the Dublin event a day later.
By her own account, Condon was originally motivated by the "chance to meet the man of my dreams... Leo", by which she of course means Leonardo DiCaprio.
However, as Condon recounts, she as well as the hundreds of screaming teens who attended the Dublin premiere, albeit on the other side of the velvet rope, were to be disappointed, as DiCaprio didn't show.
Condon was only momentarily put out by the news, however, and she went on to describe making the most of her movie premiere experience.
We get a sense of Condon's own acting ambition and professionalism when she mentions meeting "her agent for lunch" before the main event.
Condon then credits her agent for initially introducing her to Byrne at the premiere, leading to chats with him, Jeremy Irons, and John Malkovich "about this and that... you know typical Hollywood stuff!!!".
She also "got talking to the director/writer/co-producer Mr Randall Wallace" who she said "was really nice and gave me a few acting tips".
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And then comes her prescient punchline.
"Before I knew (it) it was over... well my big night had to end somehow, at least I got my wish and who knows what could be next... Oscars?"
Twenty-five years on, Condon will grace the red carpet at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday for the 95th Academy Awards.
It won't be her first time; that was in 2012 when she attended as part of the cast of Terry George's The Shore, which went on to win the Oscar for Best Short Film.
And, of course, she had a role in Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards in 2018, with Frances McDormand winning Best Actress and Sam Rockwell winning Best Supporting Actor.
But this year, Condon attends with her own nomination for Best Supporting Actress, for playing Siobhán in McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin.
Her performance has already earned her a BAFTA, shortening the odds of her taking home the gold statuette.
Condon has been working towards this ever since she wrote that yearbook entry in 1998.
That was the year she was cast in her first movie role after attending an open call for a small part in the film adaptation of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.
That film was written and directed by the late Alan Parker - the first person Condon thanked in her BAFTA acceptance speech last month.
TV roles followed, her first was in Ballykissangel in 1999, and we've since seen her in Rome, Ray Donovan, and Better Call Saul, to name but a few.
She can also count among her achievements that she was the youngest-ever Ophelia in a Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) production of Hamlet.
Samuel West was in the title role for that 2001 production and remembers Condon then as "very slight" and "quiet" but "very together, very focused".
West, who spoke to RTÉ between scenes filming for season four of All Creatures Great and Small, described it as "brilliant" that Condon hadn't read the play beforehand.
As a result, he said, she "sidestepped all the long-haired, slightly mad, floaty Ophelias that you grew up with" and instead delivered a "truthful" and "subtle" performance of a modern-day Ophelia.
"We shouldn't underestimate the bravery of an 18-year-old going to the RSC... she chose to spend a year with this group of people speaking this 400-year-old language... it must have taught her a lot and it certainly taught us a lot working with her."
It was also at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2001 that Condon and Martin McDonagh's paths crossed for the first time, when she was cast as Mairéad in his play The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
The rest, as they say, is history.
In addition to her talent, her determination to succeed - set out so clearly in her yearbook entry 25 years ago - is something those who have worked with her recognise.
"Obviously, she has great talent; she's always been fascinating in the parts she's played and they haven't been of a particular type. They've always been very well observed, really subtle, and often very funny." West said.
"That talent is necessary to get anywhere, but to get to where she's got you have to marry it with that self-belief."
The 95th Academy Awards take place at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night and will be broadcast on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player on Monday from 9:30pm.
