I must have been yearning for some Jewish content beyond my genetic makeup because soon after my 21st birthday, I noticed I was no longer dating WASPs.
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Related My wife and I had been to the genetic counselor; my wife is not Jewish - she's the shiksha godde... JAMES GRAY In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I... JANE YOLEN I love smart commercial fiction. Susan Isaacs, for example and the readers who interest me are, in t... BETH GUTCHEON I just came down wrong on my knee going for a ball, and it is just one of those fluke accidents. I h... BRITTNEY GREGORY I played a practice round with him at Baltusrol in the '93 Open on my 21st birthday, JUSTIN LEONARD With my background and genetic makeup,buddy, you're lucky I'm as normal as I am. (Katra Agroter... SHERRILYN KENYON There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been cry... JUDY GARLAND During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my... 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BJARNE STROUSTRUP I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once. MISSY ELLIOTT I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have ... COLETTE The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed... PAULO COELHO I've been dating younger men since my 20s, When I was 29, I dated someone 21... younger men are ... DANA DELANY I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. DAN FUTTERMAN A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debau... LIZ GOLDWYN You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I like... E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of... VLADIMIR NABOKOV Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most cer... GIACOMO CASANOVA Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau... ANAïS NIN I always wanted to be a makeup artist. When I don't get to have my stylist, I do my own makeup! NIKKI REED My 'act' was schoolwork. I was your basic, garden-variety, ambitious, upwardly mobile, hard-... CLIVE DAVIS Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please... JOSHUA HARRIS I would be heartbroken if I ever thought that people in the Jewish community thought that Britain wa... DAVID CAMERON Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol MATTHEW LEETH My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driv... MARIA DE VILLOTA When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because ... KACEY MUSGRAVES After all, my erstwhile dear, My no longer cherished, Need we say it was not love, Ju... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Just ask for what you want. I requested a six-month break from Facebook to visit my parents; I asked... RUCHI SANGHVI I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dat... KIESZA I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.... PEDRO PASCAL I have been driven to my knees many times because there was no place else to go. ABRAHAM LINCOLN I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer ther... CHANTAL AKERMAN I was only 16 when I was selected for 'Madrasapattinam.' I celebrated my 17th birthday on th... AMY JACKSON Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of... CHRIS HARDWICK I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always trie... RALPH ELLISON She loves Susan Sarandon and I know my dad (would have loved) being married to Susan Sarandon, ... S... CAMERON CROWE I am ready. I have repented my sins and soon I will be in heaven with Christ my savior. Now I must d... CHARLES PORTIS I wish that I'd been in Congress at some point. Especially now with Bush there. But I would have a r... TOM HAYDEN I want Jess for my birthday March 19. SHELBY FUTRELL I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON Now I have my new ambition to fly on my 100th birthday. HERBERT SLOANE There must have been some personality clashes. There's no question in my mind that this was not a pl... ALAN VITULI I don't like to get things during the year, ... I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may s... DAKOTA FANNING I decided since it was my birthday I was going to shoot it anyway. CEDRIC SIMMONS I definitely have a strong sense of my Jewish and Israeli identity. I did my two-year military servi... GAL GADOT Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. 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KEKE PALMER I no longer want my MTV BART SIMPSON I have made a couple of moves before (from Wasps to Bedford then Gloucester) and they have resurrect... ANDY GOMARSALL When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it&... GLORIA STUART All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my... APHRA BEHN I can't cook! It's genetic. My grandmother can't cook, my mother can't cook. I was r... JADA PINKETT SMITH I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having ... Q'ORIANKA KILCHER I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical backgro... DENZEL WASHINGTON As I got older, I became so self conscious about my birthmark that I was very hesitant about going t... HANNAH STORM My parents separated soon after I was born, so I left Helsinki when I was a year old. My mother took... 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SUSAN SONTAG The American fantasy of love is the 'meet-cute,' 'Love at first sight,' and 'You... SUSAN STRAIGHT The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec... SUSAN SONTAG I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human bei... SUSAN HOWATCH Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuali... SUSAN ESTRICH Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, ... SUSAN WOJCICKI I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell... SUSAN ORLEAN The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. SUSAN SONTAG To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability.... SUSAN SONTAG As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people t... SUSAN SONTAG Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. SUSAN SONTAG The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. SUSAN SONTAG