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Don't worry about me. I'll always come out on top. ASTRID LINDGREN Josh: You look like Pippi Longstocking.
Cher: Well you look like Forrest Gump. Who's Pippi Long...
CLUELESS I am the sea and nobody owns me
PIPPI LONGSTOCKING My idea of a fun night was diving into a massive pile of To Be Read pile of books stacked near my dr...
JEFF SAMPSON If you have an extreme character, you need normal characters to contrast them. Sherlock Holmes certa...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ
Most of the books I remember from my childhood were Dr. Seuss-type books. They were fun to read, but... TONY DUNGY I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravit...
DRAKE BELL
When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical natur... TIM BURTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals an...
BONNIE BASSLER I loved 'Roger Rabbit' growing up.
STEPHANIE LEONIDAS
I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my bo... SOPHIA BUSH
I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nons... GARTH NIX I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up.
BEVERLY CLEARY
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my p... MICHAEL CAINE
One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have ... MADONNA CICCONE The Tale of Peter Rabbit
BEATRIX POTTER It's something that was a part of my growing up and my childhood, ... I loved the hall.
TAMMY WYNETTE I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't...
JUDY HOLLIDAY I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lo...
LANCE BURTON
I loved doing Baywatch. It was so much fun! ALEXANDRA PAUL
The girl hurried away, but then Pippi shouted, "Did he have big ears that reached way down to his sh... ASTRID LINDGREN It started off as a hobby. I was never one to do much fishing and hunting. On occasion I did. I was ...
GERALD PRUITT I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his f...
JAN ROBERTS
I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing ... KAREN FINERMAN
When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst... NANCY WILLARD I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou...
ALAN BRADLEY
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I woul... SIMON SINEK My dad was so much fun growing up.
ABBY ELLIOTT
I've always loved flowers, as a little girl I'd collect flower objects and little flower boo... AERIN LAUDER For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reaso...
STEPHEN R. DONALDSON One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'
MIKE POMPEO I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I played lots of games, and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. I was also...
DUNCAN JONES When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had...
NATALIE DORMER 'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is ...
P. L. TRAVERS I was a really big fan of cartoons growing up, and I loved to read too much into them most of the ti...
REBECCA SUGAR
The children came to a perfume shop. In the show window was a large jar of freckle salve, and beside... ASTRID LINDGREN I really loved my daughter, I loved her so much. I thanked God every day I had her. She was my life.
ANNE AUSTIN Well... I had braces and I had to wear headgear! I loved my braces, actually. For me, they were like...
JORDIN SPARKS
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppres... ROBERTSON DAVIES
I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I al... ERIK LARSON I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the ...
RYAN MURPHY
English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory... ZADIE SMITH
'That's So Raven' was my favorite show growing up! I loved Raven so much! That show is w... RAINI RODRIGUEZ She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.
BARBARA MICHAELS
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it.... ZADIE SMITH
Alex loved books. He was the one who first introduced me to poetry. That's another reason I can't re... LAUREN OLIVER
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and read... ADRIANA TRIGIANI We began reading books together. He loved Dr. Seuss. I read those books so often I could turn the pa...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact ... GARRETT HEDLUND Braison was an excellent student who loved and participated in all kinds of sports. He loved his par...
JULIE HANSEN I always loved horror, but I read all sorts of books. My favourite as a child was 'The Secret Ga...
DARREN SHAN This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him ...
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES Weeks passed, and the little Rabbit grew very old and shabby, but the Boy loved him just as much. He...
MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always ca...
DAVID GRANN
I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family... MAYA ANGELOU
When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shoppi... DITA VON TEESE I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the ...
CAMILLE GUATY Good literacy skills can help children:
-Be healthy and safe.
-Do their homework to ...
SORAYA DIASE COFFELT (She was) full of life. She was loved and had so much to give.
SHANKAR DYAL
I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a... MAX LUCADO I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Dr. Phil was very helpful and caring. I believe he helped all of us there and watching how to better...
LOUIE ANDERSON I watched the Disney Channel all the time growing up. 'Lizzie McGuire' was my all-time favor...
OLIVIA HOLT
My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch ... CHERIE LUNGHI
I loved baseball. I was a pitcher. I loved being on the mound because I also loved being at the cent... JOHN HICKENLOOPER
My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she ... DAV PILKEY
I was a huge Muppet fan growing up, but that was the extent of my puppet knowledge. I really loved t... ROB MCCLURE I was a person who loved my job that is, until I had my son Hudson. Then leaving for a trip was no ...
SHANNAN APRILE I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had lef...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden....
MARY POPE OSBORNE My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a...
MARTIN DONOVAN As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
TALULAH RILEY I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor...
J. B. SMOOVE Russian literature has a sinister streak, and I think that influence is very evident on this record....
DIEGO GARCIA He was very fun loving, loved life, loved doing things with his friends and his family.
MISSY CLARK
The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I al... HUGH HEFNER
One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book. BRIT MARLING
I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running ... SISSY SPACEK
Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. A... ANTHONY QUINN He loved the game of golf and dedicated himself to it. He was a kid at heart and that's why the kids...
JAY MILLER I remember when I was very young, I had a fever - a long rheumatic fever in bed for four months. And...
DARIO ARGENTO There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
Wh...
KRISTEN MCKEE
I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume o... RACHEL NICHOLS
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. DOROTHY ALLISON
Of course I loved books more than people. DIANE SETTERFIELD
Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask for anythin... CORNELIA FUNKE
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actuall... PETER C. DOHERTY All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to...
LAURA LINNEY It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was...
ISABEL GILLIES
I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an... C.S. LEWIS
He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. VICTOR HUGO When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ...
JEFF KINNEY I loved Disney. 'Fantasia' was my first, favorite Disney movie. And it just kept going. I lo...
ANIKA NONI ROSE
Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Se... JIM CARREY
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter&... REGINA BRETT I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
DAN FOGELMAN Abraham had eight sons--not one. All eight sons bring something to the table. Abraham loved all of h...
MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE
