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I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.
EVAN GOLDBERG I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'G...
DYLAN MINNETTE![]()
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah ...
RON BEN-ISRAEL Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. W...
STACEY BENDET I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my fa...
ZACH BRAFF![]()
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be...
JEFF BUCKLEY My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.
PAUL RUDD I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
CARLOS PENA, JR. That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I cal...
LEW WASSERMAN My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
QUESTLOVE![]()
The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It st...
LES CLAYPOOL![]()
I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, ...
SIRI HUSTVEDT I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilber...
SIMON RICH I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My fi...
T.I.![]()
When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but...
JEFF BUCKLEY When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoo...
DHANI HARRISON I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I...
ADAM PALLY Life is a paradiddle...
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ROSS R. MASON![]()
Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me.
MAYA ANGELOU I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major acco...
JEROME BETTIS The first letter I received was that they froze my bank account, my checking account.
ROBERT LEVINE I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from pa...
VANESSA MORGAN Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'
ERICH BERGEN When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting ...
DELBERT TEILLE I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
KATHERYN WINNICK I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON![]()
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I ...
JOYCE CAROL OATES![]()
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the R...
GARY CLARK, JR. I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
DYLAN O'BRIEN![]()
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-scho...
ROBERT PINSKY I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge ...
SAMI GAYLE![]()
he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
JEREMY PIVEN![]()
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
CARLOS SLIM![]()
The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.
H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
VERNON L. SMITH I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totall...
JAMES WOLK![]()
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was ...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem...
KAJOL![]()
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it ...
ACE FREHLEY My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT![]()
The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying i...
PANKAJ PATEL James Lewis was the first athlete I ever coached who really touched my heart. He was a special, spec...
DALE MAYS![]()
My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with ov...
CHUCK BERRY I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, ...
UDAY KIRAN I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
JACK GLEESON When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked...
CLAUDIO RANIERI I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI![]()
Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up."
JOE NAMATH![]()
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and sta...
HELENA BONHAM CARTER![]()
My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then...
TOM DRURY I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.
DAVEED DIGGS![]()
When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself hel...
JOEL ROBUCHON I kind of did that when I first got back. I got that out of my system. It was only special to me as ...
JAMES WILLIS![]()
When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And t...
LINDA BLAIR![]()
When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the pape...
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA![]()
The hand on my hair moved to my back, and I realized someone was singing softly. The voice was famil...
RACHEL HAWKINS![]()
I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun t...
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH![]()
I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, b...
VINCE CABLE![]()
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I though...
CHIWETEL EJIOFOR![]()
I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. ...
MEGHAN MARKLE I still rate the one I got against Australia as my number one, but it was my first and that's always...
JACQUES KALLIS I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she ...
BRETT YOUNG![]()
When I first came to college, it was a time that I was trying to figure out, 'Who am I? What mak...
LINDSEY STIRLING![]()
I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lo...
JACK NICKLAUS![]()
I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they w...
JEFFREY TAMBOR I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely sel...
SAMANTHA SHANNON For the first time, I was able to cross the border and when I was asked my citizenship, I could say ...
TANITH BELBIN After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY![]()
Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.'
JOE NAMATH![]()
My first book was signed up when I was 13, and I've been writing ever since. But penning the ...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO![]()
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and sh...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI![]()
Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.
BRYAN ADAMS When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for spe...
ANGELA ROBINSON When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitaris...
WADADA LEO SMITH But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER![]()
Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.
SARAH E. OLSON![]()
I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of m...
CARTER BURWELL![]()
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar...
TORI AMOS I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG![]()
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't ...
EDDIE VEDDER![]()
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to w...
AZAR NAFISI![]()
The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New Y...
TRINNY WOODALL When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! T...
CULLEN BUNN![]()
I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that&#...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.
JOHN NEWCOMBE When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT![]()
The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 f...
JOHNNY BENCH My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.
CHANDRA WILSON![]()
My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane'...
TILDA SWINTON I knew well in advance, even before I stepped on the stage for my first event, that I was going to l...
SVETLANA KHORKINA![]()
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffe...
DENNIS LEHANE
EVAN GOLDBERG I was always a really big fan of R. L. Stine and the 'Goosebumps' T.V. series and the 'G...
DYLAN MINNETTE
When I celebrated my bar mitzvah, there was no cake. Today, there is no such thing as a bar mitzvah ... RON BEN-ISRAEL Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. W...
STACEY BENDET I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my fa...
ZACH BRAFF
I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... JEFF BUCKLEY My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.
PAUL RUDD I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.
CARLOS PENA, JR. That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I cal...
LEW WASSERMAN My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
QUESTLOVE
The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It st... LES CLAYPOOL
I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, ... SIRI HUSTVEDT I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilber...
SIMON RICH I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My fi...
T.I.
When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but... JEFF BUCKLEY When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoo...
DHANI HARRISON I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I...
ADAM PALLY Life is a paradiddle...
R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON
Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me. MAYA ANGELOU I did go to cheder and was a bar mitzvah. We were members of an Orthodox synagogue, although we were...
LENNY ABRAHAMSON Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major acco...
JEROME BETTIS The first letter I received was that they froze my bank account, my checking account.
ROBERT LEVINE I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from pa...
VANESSA MORGAN Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'
ERICH BERGEN When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting ...
DELBERT TEILLE I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13.
KATHERYN WINNICK I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I ... JOYCE CAROL OATES
When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the R... GARY CLARK, JR. I love baseball - 'Moneyball' was my favorite book when I was 13.
DYLAN O'BRIEN
I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-scho... ROBERT PINSKY I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge ...
SAMI GAYLE
he was for long my only audience... Only from him did I ever get the idea that my ‘stuff’ could ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.
JEREMY PIVEN
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young. CARLOS SLIM
The tattoo is just setting below his hp bone.H e l l i s e m p t y
a n d a l l t h e d ...
TAHEREH MAFI I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
VERNON L. SMITH I would have to say that my very first encounter with the arts was when my mother bought me my first...
SONDRA RADVANOVSKY I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totall...
JAMES WOLK
When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was - my big thing was ... MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem...
KAJOL
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it ... ACE FREHLEY My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT
The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying i... PANKAJ PATEL James Lewis was the first athlete I ever coached who really touched my heart. He was a special, spec...
DALE MAYS
My first job at Gleason's Bar in Cleveland was $800 a week, when I was making $92 a week with ov... CHUCK BERRY I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, ...
UDAY KIRAN I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
JACK GLEESON When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked...
CLAUDIO RANIERI I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI
Till I was 13, I thought my name was "Shut Up." JOE NAMATH
My father fell really chronically ill when I was 13 and that's when I phoned up an agent and sta... HELENA BONHAM CARTER
My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then... TOM DRURY I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.
DAVEED DIGGS
When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself hel... JOEL ROBUCHON I kind of did that when I first got back. I got that out of my system. It was only special to me as ...
JAMES WILLIS
When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And t... LINDA BLAIR
When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the pape... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA
The hand on my hair moved to my back, and I realized someone was singing softly. The voice was famil... RACHEL HAWKINS
I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun t... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, b... VINCE CABLE
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I though... CHIWETEL EJIOFOR
I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. ... MEGHAN MARKLE I still rate the one I got against Australia as my number one, but it was my first and that's always...
JACQUES KALLIS I think I realized my parents' relationship was special when I had my first girlfriend, and she ...
BRETT YOUNG
When I first came to college, it was a time that I was trying to figure out, 'Who am I? What mak... LINDSEY STIRLING
I had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lo... JACK NICKLAUS
I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they w... JEFFREY TAMBOR I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely sel...
SAMANTHA SHANNON For the first time, I was able to cross the border and when I was asked my citizenship, I could say ...
TANITH BELBIN After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
Till I was 13, I thought my name was 'Shut Up.' JOE NAMATH
My first book was signed up when I was 13, and I've been writing ever since. But penning the ... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and sh... GABRIELLE ZEVIN My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI
Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs. BRYAN ADAMS When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for spe...
ANGELA ROBINSON When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitaris...
WADADA LEO SMITH But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER
Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out. SARAH E. OLSON
I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ...
JACK BRUCE John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of m...
CARTER BURWELL
So the first job that I got - my father got it for me - he had his clerical collar on, was a gay bar... TORI AMOS I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
HAYDEN SCHLOSSBERG
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't ... EDDIE VEDDER
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to w... AZAR NAFISI
The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New Y... TRINNY WOODALL When I was younger, my goal in life was to work in special FX makeup. Liquid latex and fake blood! T...
CULLEN BUNN
I think when I was about 12 or 13, my dad started taking me out to the local golf course, and that&#... JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE They wrote it that my moustache was insured for 13 million.
JOHN NEWCOMBE When I was five, I went on my first audition. It was for a Pizza Hut commercial.
HALEY JOEL OSMENT
The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 f... JOHNNY BENCH My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.
CHANDRA WILSON
My whole relationship with Bowie started when I was 13, and I bought a copy of 'Aladdin Sane'... TILDA SWINTON I knew well in advance, even before I stepped on the stage for my first event, that I was going to l...
SVETLANA KHORKINA
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffe... DENNIS LEHANE
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You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaz... 