Susan Orlean
Related Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then... GARETH GATES I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of ... DON CHEADLE I really liked figuring things out on my own. Early on in the development of a new version of Window... CHARLES PETZOLD TODD RUNDGREN I made a lot of errors early, most of them throwing. Defense is my game and the coaches worked hard ... BRIAN FINEGAN CEELO GREEN DANIEL TAMMET I changed my putter, went rummaging around in the garage and pulled the old one out as I felt a chan... MARK ROE I changed my putter, went rummaging around in the garage and pulled the old one out as I felt a chan... MARK ROE At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father... SCOTTIE PIPPEN BILL NYE JANINE DI GIOVANNI I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that ... KASKADE I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even C... PRINCE ROYCE I was in the fifth grade the first time I thought about turning thirty. My best friend Darcy and I c... EMILY GIFFIN SHERRY STRINGFIELD SHERRY STRINGFIELD I think someone made a mistake while making my calendar, I was searching for tomorrow but I couldn't... PHILIP T. M. JULIANNA MARGULIES DEYTH BANGER WENDELL BERRY MARIAN MCPARTLAND I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my ch... SAMANTHA BEE I think someone made a huge mistake while making my calendar, I was searching for tomorrow but sadly... PHILIP T. M. MARK ZUCKERBERG , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point... CARRIE MAE WEEMS My wife made me get a cellphone, which I keep in my briefcase. I've never used it. ALAN C. GREENBERG In my early to mid-20s, a fear of confrontation made it difficult for me to end relationships in a m... KOREN ZAILCKAS JOJO MOYES I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not.... GARY DAVID GOLDBERG MICHIO KAKU I think someone made a huge mistake while making my 2014 calendar, I was searching for tomorrow but ... PHILIP T. M. The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 2... DEVAL PATRICK I remember that date because it was my mom's birthday. I had to leave early before the results were ... JOSH NORRIS RODNEY DANGERFIELD AGNETHA FALTSKOG She asks to see my diploma, holds it in her hands and smiles, reads it out loud before handing it ba... KENNY PORPORA VICTORIA PRINCIPAL J.J. MCAVOY STELLA YOUNG A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in thi... CHARLES TAYLOR Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collect... ROBERT PLANT I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do ... ANDY SUMMERS Oklahoma throws a lot at you, ... So I made it a point to get my head ready and the mental part of t... VINCE YOUNG SIGMUND FREUD GORAN IVANISEVIC MARIA V. SNYDER From my first breath after finding out I had diabetes, my first question was, 'Will I still be able ... JAY LEEUWENBURG My parents got me a sewing machine for Christmas during my senior year of high school. I made three ... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN HENRY DAVID THOREAU I figured I had to make mine. I hit some good putts on the previous three or four holes and he got a... JASON SCHULTZ BEYONCE KNOWLES WOLE SOYINKA JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA ZUBIN MEHTA I darted away from Geir and jmped through the gaping hole in the wall Will's body had made. The sett... COURTNEY ALLISON MOULTON SEAN ADAMS KIM KARDASHIAN She drives it really well. And I bet she made a mile of putts today. She putts the lights out. I ask... KATE GOLDEN I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the ... ANGELA RUGGIERO WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ANAIS NIN ELIZABETH GILBERT DENNIS QUAID SHERWOOD ANDERSON JEFFREY EUGENIDES HARRISON FORD Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year... EBERHARD WEBER SHERYL SANDBERG It was a time in my life. I made a mistake. I pleaded guilty to it. I admitted to what my problems w... DAN BAILEY SYLVIA PLATH I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad's home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of o... KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN I made a CD in my dorm room and put it on the Internet, and my friends blew it up. Within a few mont... MIKE POSNER When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that wa... JACK REYNOR GAVIN HOOD GILLIAN FLYNN LADY GAGA JOSIAH ROYCE Being down there in that treatment facility, man, it just made me reflect on everything as far as gr... KOREN ROBINSON KEVIN KWAN JOHN HENRIK CLARKE I worked in a little tiny cubby hole for four years. Other than getting to chat with friends I made ... ISAAC WINE TODD RUNDGREN I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease... BEAU WILLIMON Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as... JULIUS ROSENWALD Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as ... JULIUS ROSENWALD CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE CHRISTINE KEELER RODNEY DANGERFIELD JOE PERRY In college, I had a crush on one of my professors. I used to bat my eyelashes and coo at him. He did... NAVI RAWAT CARL SANDBURG CARL SANDBURG HARUKI MURAKAMI Just being in that venue and being at the Final Four knowing my team could be there the following ye... MONIQUE CURRIE The death of my friend has made a lasting mark on my life. It was the first funeral I ever attended ... JENNIFER BERRY Whenever my old girl would catch me with a new one, I'd tell her she was just a friend - but she was... JOSE GUTIERREZ I used a kind of gray-green early on in my practice for painting steel, to make it look more like it... MICHAEL GRAVES
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While I used to make my living principally as a record producer, as time went on, I had to depend mo... 
I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of mys... 
I was desperate for a friend, and I used to lie in bed at night thinking about what it would be like... 
I worked at comedy clubs - if I can use the term 'work' - for several years. I middled at on... 
I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic.... 
People don't want to know that as a woman, I made my own decision as a woman to leave, It has to be ... 
People don't want to know that as a woman, I made my own decision as a woman to leave, It has to be ... 
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story... 
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... 
Grandmam, as I have seen in looking back, was the decider of my fate. She shaped my life, without of... 
I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out,... 
I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out... 
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 
My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invit... 
I vowed to myself that when I grew up and became a theoretical physicist, in addition to doing resea... 
With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever ha... 
When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record. 
Every year on her birthday, she would pick out a song which she would force me to sing at the top of... 
When she reached me, she stopped and kissed my father on the cheek before taking my hand. However, w... 
I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I... 
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out and out unb... 
At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expe... 
Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, “I don’t think I would have made it past the audi... 
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. 
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My father used to tell me stories before I fell asleep. When the children would gather, at a certain... 
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I pay my tributes to my dearest friend and the greatest musician of India Ravi Shanker. It has been ... 
The first time I used Pandora on my Squeezebox, I was glued to my listening chair for the entire wee... 
When I turned 16, my dad made me sign a contract - he made us sign contracts for everything - that i... 
(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would she wer... 
If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have mad... 
My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her... 
In my early teen years, I wanted to become a vet. That was my plan. I worked as a veterinarian's... 
I know about her, although she has never crossed my path," he said softly. "I know about her struggl... 
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some k... 
I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in... 
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...it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a sh... 
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. ... 
As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I try to tell to y... 
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When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ... 
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She glared at him through tear-filled eyes. “You talk of your pain? You cannot even begin to under... 
My mother used to go out on her own, and I used to have to keep a look out for my stepfather coming ... 
My Portuguese uncle had a Portuguese version of a ukulele. The family would pull it out after dinner... 
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. 
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. 
I learned there were lots of realities in the world. 
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To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ... 
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Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m... 
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Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag. 
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The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience. 
When the enemy has no face, society will invent one. 
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She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. 
So that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice.
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Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. 
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