Henry Petroski
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I asked him why he needed... SUE BAILEY Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often ... ALEXANDER DOWNER 'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third perso... MICHAEL KORYTA The answer I've never had is why they were killed. There was no reason for them to be killed. BERNICE JOHNSON I felt so relaxed. It just felt very easy, and that's why it surprised me that I had broken my w... KATIE LEDECKY I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bo... CAREY LOWELL Lying in bed, half-covered by the blankets, I would drowsily ask why he had come to my door that nig... MARGARET GEORGE ANNE BRONTë RALPH WALDO EMERSON You never know really what anyone thinks about you - that's why all my closest friends are ones ... DOMINIC COOPER J. COLE When I had no place to live and I had no place to sleep - and I did sleep in the Metro - I held stea... 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They ... HANS MATHESON NEAL STEPHENSON DREXEL DEAL BELA LUGOSI SARAH DESSEN GISELE BUNDCHEN TOM WILSON JONATHAN CARROLL It wasn't a question of if I was doing it. I was doing it. They told my mother I had talent and she ... JANE CHOC ALASTAIR CAMPBELL CAMILA ALVES INGRID BERGMAN When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - ... AUDRA MCDONALD One of the first speaking roles I had was in a film called 'Svengali', with Peter O'Tool... TOBIN BELL When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how ... ELMER RICE I led by example before. This year, I became more vocal. My teammates were my friends and they knew ... DAN GERIOT I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha... CHRIS ISAAK AMY CHUA DIONNE WARWICK When I was asked to leave, I left... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. ... PAGET BREWSTER I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, ... BARRY LóPEZ They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a pro... MICHAEL ROSENBAUM NILE RODGERS It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for m... KEVIN BROWNLOW That's another question, too: Was it secured properly, or were they in the process of doing that and... IGNATIUS CARROLL I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missi... VICTORIA AZARENKA LANA DEL REY I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail ... JANIS IAN My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without ... JOHNNY GALECKI I kind of laughed. I was so stunned. I didn't know why she was asking and what it had to do with bas... JENNIFER HARRIS ALFRED ENOCH When I was eight, my mum found me humming to myself and scribbling on a scrap of paper. When she ask... NEIL JACKSON They asked me why we were open, I said it was pressure from the public. KEITH ALLEN ALESSANDRA AMBROSIO VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN DAVID DASTMALCHIAN AUGUST WILSON After asking questions about current recovery techniques, the conversation prompted me to ask myself... ASHTON EATON JAMIE VARDY I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience oth... BEN DANIELS EMILY PROCTER If their intent was to engage in that dialogue they had Monday, my question is, why did this (die-in... CARRI JENKINS I was pretty upset with myself in the first half because I felt as though I had so many wide-open lo... EDDIE JONES It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as i... CATHERINE MCCORMACK ELIZABETH WURTZEL There was a rumor that I was dead. I happened to be off work that day and I had a beeper and the bat... ALYSON HANNIGAN ALYCIA DEBNAM-CAREY My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were ... CARY FUKUNAGA TRAVIS KALANICK I've always had a man's mindset, and that's why I mostly have men friends, and that'... KARRINE STEFFANS I realized that I was asexual because when I was young, all of my friends started being attracted to... DAVID JAY MICHAEL CAINE To me, it was the most fascinating sign in Boston. I asked my parents about it when I was very young... MIKE ROSS MARY BALOGH I used to listen to so many song bands that were all straight people, and my thinking on it was, ... LIV BRUCE LINDSEY STIRLING
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