Edmund White
Related I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating ... DAVID WALLIAMS MICHELLE YEOH I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I'v... DAVID NEVINS MINDY KALING I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you'... BILL KREUTZMANN ARNOLD PALMER I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes be... PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, y... VICTORIA PRATT I watched the 'Seven Samurai' a lot because I loved it growing up. I can't describe to y... ANTOINE FUQUA When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whet... LILY COLE TINA FEY When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars... SARAH PARCAK Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON KATE WINSLET DAVID JOHANSEN COLIN KAEPERNICK RUSSELL PETERS KIRSTEN DUNST JASON KIDD KATE WINSLET NOAH BAUMBACH The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God... BIANCA LAWSON Acting was a lot like football. When you're a DB and you're one on one with a receiver, you&... BRIAN J. WHITE ALAN ALDA I like doves. They look so beautiful, like a woman. For me they represent peace and love and purity.... JOHN WOO SARA RAMIREZ When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it ab... FEIST It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing be... JULIO IGLESIAS The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it rem... OXANA CHUSOVITINA DEBBIE FORD MARY BERRY ARIEL LEVY I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue'... OSCAR ISAAC JERRY SEINFELD I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.&#... EMMANUEL LUBEZKI 'Kung Fu' was never cancelled; I just left. I decided I had enough of it, and I thought I sh... DAVID CARRADINE KARAN JOHAR It was weird. Like, people came up to me and knew me as Daredevil before any footage had come out. I... CHARLIE COX DAVID DUCHOVNY CAL RIPKEN, JR. When I was saying, 'White people go to hell,' I never had trouble finding a publisher. But w... AMIRI BARAKA When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful... DAVID WALLIAMS OLLY MURS When I read 'Stand By Me,' it was like, 'This is a look back at the same time period whe... ROB REINER I didn't like to be restricted, because when you're in a choir, you have a part to sing and ... TOM JONES When you're a child, you're able to assimilate so easily into any situation. You even start ... VINCENT D'ONOFRIO I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because the... KATE BUSH I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans a... DAVID STERN The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. A... JOHN WOZNIAK MARILYN MONROE When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants... MOISES ARIAS I was at a school in England, a prep school, from the ages of 8 and 13. And every play they did was ... CHARLIE COX NATHAN FIELDER ELTON JOHN ELTON JOHN I do feel I'm responsible to carrying on the music. That's what I was charged with as a kid.... CARLENE CARTER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON COREY TAYLOR What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life an... GUY RITCHIE I had done another show called 'United States of Cars,' which was a pilot that didn't ge... ADAM FERRARA I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'Y... BREA GRANT CHUCK NORRIS My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not ... GRANDMASTER FLASH LANA DEL REY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA MIKE BIRBIGLIA ALESSIA CARA LAURA SCHLESSINGER For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald... WARREN G C. S. LEWIS LAUREN HOLLY J. R. MARTINEZ I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. Th... JENNIFER CONNELLY DIANE KEATON Growing up as a young kid, I was in a restaurant. So, you know, I always had a very good understandi... GRANT ACHATZ I really liked to perform. My mother always tells this story: I was five. They had a party, and they... GAL GADOT Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When... TAYLOR KINNEY ELTON JOHN I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like th... EDIE CAMPBELL RUPERT GRAVES My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's li... MAIWENN GUS VAN SANT VIGGO MORTENSEN JOHN HENCH SANDRA OH I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch... DANIEL EVERETT I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn't sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when... HEATHER MATARAZZO I've had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll ... CARA BUONO AJA NAOMI KING CHLOE SEVIGNY BABYFACE ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER ABBY WAMBACH GIA COPPOLA AARON SORKIN I don't love the way I look. Nobody does, and if they do, I don't want to be that person'... TYLER JOSEPH I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into t... DAVID SELTZER JUDITH VIORST
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My grandmother had flawless skin just from using basic skincare - an old herbal remedy in the form o... 
As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.... 
I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you're a kid, you're not scared of anything. 
When I was really young, I loved the movie 'White Christmas' - I still do - and I thought Ro... 
I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded complim... 
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My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is you... 
You do stand-up because you have to do it. If you're doing it to become 'famous,' you... 
When you're little, you're open to things. It's not like you get into this rehearsed zon... 
When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a ... 
Adaptations are fun for me because they connect to the idea of filmmaking I had when I was a kid. I ... 
I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mothe... 
When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl k... 
It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you'... 
Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... 
People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but whe... 
When you make a TV show, they always say you're a guest in someone's home. Online, you'r... 
As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a fi... 
One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no f... 
My dad had premature gray. I was always the one with the most energy, the one who continued to pract... 
I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them ha... 
When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I did... 
I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher sayin... 
Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't ... 
I've had to really teach myself that when you're not feeling it, you shouldn't write any... 
It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in th... 
When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the... 
When I was asked to do a song from 'In the Heights' at the White House in 2009, I chose inst... 
I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films t... 
I'm not extremely outgoing, but I'm average, I think. When people meet me they'll say, &... 
When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrato... 
'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wo... 
You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it ... 
My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You kno... 
Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experien... 
I was concerned about doing the right thing when I was a kid. I suppose as a child, you're a mas... 
The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It ... 
I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful ar... 
The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy ... 
A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're... 
By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' b... 
The other day I got a text from a boy, but it wasn't hot. I mean, if you're going to text me... 
Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you're in love, and then you find ... 
Nobody ever thinks that the work they're going to do could ever be bigger than the one they do b... 
When you're younger and traveling and visiting new countries and cities, that stuff is exciting;... 
As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when y... 
I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red... 
I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you'... 
If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe... 
If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to... 
Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o... 
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. 
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo... 
Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this ... 
Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times. 
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. 
I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useles... 
A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the pe... 
Ambition can creep as well as soar. 
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We... 
Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past ... 
But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. 
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. 
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. 
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw. 
Gold all is not that doth golden seem. 
I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing... 
In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism... 
Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchan... 
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