Related
It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had... CHRISTINA ENGELA
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opp... JOYCE CAROL OATES
Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that... JACK BLACK When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room o... ADAM DRIVER My parents were on the one side of the house, and the generator is on that side and everything was g...
MATT LAWTON
I've always loved reporting from the field most of all. There's something about doing live T... ANDERSON COOPER
Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. Whe... ANUPAM KHER
I watched my parents' fame diminish - as I was getting more conscious, their celebrity was going... CARRIE FISHER I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with 'Rocky,... MR. T My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie '...
MICHAEL PENA In my head, I consider 'No Turning Back' my 'dipping the toe in the water' album. It...
IMELDA MAY When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER There was a bit of a readjustment period because I didn't know what it was going to be like. I d...
DAVE LOMBARDO I began to think that there was something awesome about my timing. How was it that, at the exact mom...
MARK EPSTEIN
In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was p... HALSEY
Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning... ANNIE ELIZABETH DELANY The beginning of my sin, if you will, was thinking that it was all a mistake and that I absolutely d...
BRETT BUTLER
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most Am... TIM CAHILL I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that...
MADHURI DIXIT It was my parents understanding all along that they would retire back to Milwaukee.
BARBARA WAGNER
I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been... MATTHEW QUICK
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and j... KELSEA BALLERINI
When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to... BEBE REXHA My parents split when I was 13. For a youngster, it's quite devastating. One minute you're a...
VINNIE JONES 'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done... e...
CHARLYNE YI My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our...
MIKAELA SHIFFRIN
I think that's what happened to the record business when 'Napster' came around. The indu... JAY-Z
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was conside... AMOS OZ
I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just ... VICTORIA AVEYARD
It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I migh... ERIK LARSON
It was driving me crazy that I couldn't remember something that I studied the night before. All ... TERRY BRADSHAW I didn't realize it at the time, but writing obituaries was one of best jobs that I've ever ...
KATHLEEN FLINN
'Carrie Diaries' was one of the scripts that was sent my way, and it was instantly something... ELLEN WONG Have you read 'The Grapes of Wrath?' That was my family. My dad was a sharecropper in wester...
B. WAYNE HUGHES
I remember the absolute joy I used to get out of writing. The purity of imagining something and then... LIANE MORIARTY
'Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary an... MARK LEYNER If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably t...
ADAM MANSBACH
It was a combination of my painkillers (for a neck injury) and the fact that everybody was paying tr... CHARLIZE THERON
My parents were teetotalers and my grandparents were - it's all the way back. It's New Engli... PENN JILLETTE 'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Als...
KEN MARINO 'E.T.' was the movie that made me want to make movies in the first place, and it was the fir...
ADAM GREEN One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of...
RUTH WARE Going down to the D-League was a major turnaround, the turning point of my rookie season. I got to g...
MARTELL WEBSTER
It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchild... DAVID SUZUKI
When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and t... CAMILA ALVES
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... LAILA ALI
When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River o... BRAD PAISLEY The scariest thing about 'Roy' was that it was sync sound. So, I had to worry about my dicti...
JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ
People ask what my influences are, and for me, it's not always obvious. One of my biggest inspir... TIG NOTARO He's written some great songs. I thought that 'Blues Man' was a perfect song for me to d...
ALAN JACKSON My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel...
ERIKA SLEZAK My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perki...
DEXTER FLETCHER
One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca... BILLY CRYSTAL
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back t... ALICE WALKER
My favorite thing about 'Saturday Night's Main Event,' it was that one time where I coul... JOHN CENA
'The Road' was my first American film, my first film in the snow. The first of everything. S... KODI SMIT-MCPHEE My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on ...
WARREN LITTLEFIELD I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater...
LECY GORANSON
I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There w... LYDIA DAVIS
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... MAYER HAWTHORNE
The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Ta... CARRIE UNDERWOOD My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was ...
CORBIN BERNSEN Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was wri...
TYKA NELSON When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn&...
OTIS BLACKWELL
My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travel... NILE RODGERS
When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was ... ADAM BEACH
I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the res... JACK MCBRAYER
The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything... RACHEL CUSK
For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was ar... AMY CHUA There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impo...
JACKIE DESHANNON
Standup comedy was my weird hobby. I would drag my poor parents out to the only open mics that were ... ALEXANDRA PETRI
My career only took off because of one football game. I thought it was funny. 'Playboy' call... PAMELA ANDERSON There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energ...
JOANNA CASSIDY When I was writing 'Shotgun,' it's one of the first songs that's come to me as an im...
VALERIE JUNE 'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go...
LAURA BELL BUNDY
Believe it or not, I loved my Jheri curl and thought it was beautiful on me. It actually made my hai... KIMBERLY ELISE
I've always had a passion for giving back. It's a family tradition that comes from my devout... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can&... RAFAEL NADAL As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occu...
SARGENT SHRIVER I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and ...
TOM ARAYA 'Fukrey' was a major turning point of my career because it was post this film that I started...
ALI FAZAL All it has to do is put the pledge as it was before and say that we are one nation, indivisible, ins...
MICHAEL NEWDOW
I was in the book, and the book was in my head, and as long as I stayed inside my head, I could go o... PAUL AUSTER I didn't try to cry my way out of Orlando. That was never my intention, or not what I did at all...
DWIGHT HOWARD Wrestling was the first time I thought, 'My leg is the thing that functions in this way to do th...
BETTY GILPIN
If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneelin... CYNTHIA OZICK
I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Ear... AL PACINO
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions ... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only di...
SPIKE JONZE I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this gre...
DANE COOK
I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time whil... JHUMPA LAHIRI Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being...
JACK HUSTON My parents are such great people, ... They wanted me to do whatever it was that I loved doing.
BEBE NEUWIRTH My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The onl...
RUMER WILLIS All nationalism is based on racism and hate. I'm Scottish; I was born in Scotland, as my parents...
PHILIP KERR
I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' maga... ROBERT ENGLUND I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic wa...
CHARLIE HADEN
I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, exper... 
I have tried hard to be a good person and to leave the world a better place. To feel that I have in ... 