Stewart Stern
Related EMMELINE PANKHURST I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write. PATRICIA REILLY GIFF I realize at one point, that I was being followed, and then I began to see the surveillance that was... GLORIA NAYLOR TOM STOPPARD I ain't got no money, I ain't got no car to take you on a date, I can't even buy you flowers, but to... GENEREUX PHILIP JOHN LE CARRE MUDDY WATERS I have come from a background where I haven't had lots of money to put me on the map. I've h... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN WILLIAM CONGREVE My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytel... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON WALTER DEAN MYERS When we got home from that race that night, Rick wrote on the computer, 'Dad, when I run it feels li... DICK HOYT KABBALAH JOYCE CAROL OATES I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed u... RACHEL SKLAR ALAN MOORE ELLE MACPHERSON AMY TAN I'd say the key thing is to remain true to what originally got you into music. When I wrote '... GIN WIGMORE For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st... LAURA HILLENBRAND He went in Sunday. He had trouble breathing; he got pneumonia, he got everything failing the next da... JODI WEBB When I began playing around at being a physical chemist, I enjoyed very much doing work on the struc... ALFRED HERSHEY ALAN WALKER BECCA FITZPATRICK DOROTHY ALLISON I worked at Ruby Foos early on as a host. I was only there for a little bit, but I had several odd j... TITUSS BURGESS JOHN LE CARRE RITA MAE BROWN [It was just their food that began to stick in his throat.] I love Chinese food, ... I could even pi... CHERYL BAKER Once you achieve a level of success... you learn, something tells you, 'Man this ain't even ... FAT JOE BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modeling. GABRIELLE REECE STEVEN ERIKSON The windows were blowing out, and something hit me in the head. I thought I was going to lose consci... DAISY BLACK BEN OKRI WILL ROGERS ALAN MOORE GEORGE LOPEZ We had a couple of friends with us when the event began. As the night went on, we got excited and be... CYNDI SHARP NAT KING COLE Now, I'm not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do... PIERRE-AMBROISE CHODERLOS DE LACLOS ADRIENNE MAYOR NAT KING COLE You got to zone everything out and go out and do your assignment. CHRIS HOVAN NIKKI HALEY JOHN MCENROE CHARLIE CHAPLIN CAROLYN MURPHY BILL BRYSON E.L. JAMES I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just ... MATT MCGORRY ROB MCCLURE My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I rea... RAINEY QUALLEY BARBARA CORCORAN SHELBY FOOTE DAKOTA JOHNSON JOE MCNALLY The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Ba... FRANCES FARMER I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went ... TAIYE SELASI I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from. AGNES OBEL I figured I got the wood; I got the knowledge. I've got lots of help from people who know carpentry.... BEN WADE I was a sickly child and couldn't digest food. Preparing food for me was a challenge for my mother, ... KARLA LOPEZ MARIE HELVIN I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when ... ESTELLE With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that... VALERIE CRUZ TERRY PRATCHETT A few days after I began my short story, I returned to his desk and handed him my updates. He pushed... JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY PHIL KLAY Instead of fleeing God scrutiny, David welcomed it. It's like he was saying, "Look God, since I can'... WILL DAVIS JR. Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view. CESAR MILLAN ERICH SEGAL KARL MARLANTES SHILPA SHETTY BELL HOOKS At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money... JACK BRUCE Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is... BARBARA PARK He wrote some to me on different occasions. He wrote one when I turned 16. That one is really very d... DIANE JACOBOWITZ SHANIA TWAIN After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy...... IRIS JOHANSEN I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got b... KIT WILLIAMS HERBERT HOOVER It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing c... DOUGLASS NORTH GILLIAN FLYNN The act of song writing and recording became one and the same to me; because I essentially recorded ... ADAM GOLDBERG C. JOYBELL C. As I got here, things began to look up. But I'm looking at (how) I have four more years before retir... BILLY WILLIAMS As I got here, things began to look up. But I'm looking at (how) I have four more years before retir... BILLY J. WILLIAMS BART D. EHRMAN I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all... COCO LEE It was a real sweat box in there, very humid, ... I got a little woozy and began to feel weaker and ... ARI FLEISCHER C.S. LEWIS When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncover... ARTHUR HAILEY LANGSTON HUGHES MORRISSEY JUDITH VIORST C.S. LEWIS ANAïS NIN I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, ... LESLIE ODOM, JR. MAVIS GALLANT WOLE SOYINKA
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We lived in the shadow of our rich relations. Mother was intent on keeping up with the people she wa... STEWART STERN ALAN STERN After 'The Wonder Years,' I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never ... DANIEL STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music... ISAAC STERN I was really trying to anchor down the band. We should explore this new song, but we've got to have ... AARON STERN A lot of his stuff was a lot slower, so there was a period of time where we were all worried. I was ... AARON STERN This record is a showcase of where we've been over the past two years. We've done a lot of touring. ... AARON STERN I think a lot of bands just, they sort of mark themselves as they can only go so far. They sort of s... AARON STERN Kids live vicariously through the lyrics. They identify with them, feel like these are their stories... AARON STERN What a huge game, just to play the USA, the powerhouse of baseball. We can play baseball, too. We're... ADAM STERN That was a huge game to win, playing the U.S.. We (Canadians) can play baseball too, we're not just ... ADAM STERN Any win in this tournament is huge and coming against the U.S., they have the most talent out there,... ADAM STERN We like to tell everyone we can play baseball, too. We're not just a hockey country. ADAM STERN It's just something that tightened up on me and hasn't let go. I'm hoping I can get someone to drop ... ADAM STERN The 3D goldfish was quite a challenge for us, as it was required to behave in a photo-realistic mann... ADAM STERN In the first half, we came out nervous. At half, I said 'come on guys, let's go.' We settled down an... ADAM STERN You take us over the course of a long schedule and obviously we couldn't stick with (the Americans).... ADAM STERN With these Olympics, I kind of miss it. Any kind of winter sport like that you wish you were good at... ADAM STERN He kind of brushed it off. ADAM STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN GIL STERN HOWARD STERN JUDITH STERN HOWARD STERN A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man. ISAAC STERN I would say the referees have the toughest game to call. I would say that there's a lot of offic... DAVID STERN SHOSHANNAH STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny... NICHOLAS STERN ALAN STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN JOSH STERN ALAN STERN Wal-Mart provides a chilling example of the damage that low-wage, nonunion corporations can wreak, a... ANDREW STERN When you add physical requirements to jobs that don't need them, you begin to weed out a whole pool ... ANDREW STERN In Washington, D.C., we are still living in the last century in an industrial revolution, ... India ... ANDREW STERN I can't think of another entertainment sector that's systematically freezing out half the potential ... ANDREW STERN For the protection of the country, nurses are being asked to risk their health in the line of duty, ... ANDREW STERN I'm not a national security expert, I don't have access to that information, [but] I have to presume... ANDREW STERN When we started, we viewed ourselves as faster, better, cheaper ... But what we've come to understan... ANDREW STERN Today we begin to build a global union in very specific terms. In a global economy with global emplo... ANDREW STERN It has no enforceable standards to stop a union from conspiring with employers to keep another stron... ANDREW STERN And as it is set up today, I believe, sadly, it has no hope of uniting the 90 percent of workers who... ANDREW STERN Not every decision you make is going to be 100 percent perfect, ... Overall, Christi [Hogin] has don... ANDY STERN He comes with an enormous amount of good will. I mean, people have really seen him stand up in strik... ANDY STERN We're a healthcare union. He's a doctor. He's delivered healthcare at the bedside, delivered it as g... ANDY STERN In fact, he only registered as a Democrat four months ago, just weeks before entering the race. ANDY STERN Let's be clear -- state employees and other voters in New Hampshire take a huge risk by supporting h... ANDY STERN It is unfair to send [SEIU] members into the voting booth on primary day without giving them the inf... ANDY STERN The world has changed. We can help shape the global economy, but ... the strength of unions is [not]... ANDY STERN When we strengthen our cooperation and help workers in the same industry unite, everybody wins, ANDY STERN [By pulling out of the AFL-CIO and proposing to start an organization, Stern and his Teamster ally J... ANDY STERN The Democratic Party silence on Iraq is another moment of a voice lost. Faced with votes in favor of... ANDY STERN ALAN STERN I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they a... NICHOLAS STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN SHOSHANNAH STERN ALAN STERN The only other thing I can really remember wanting to do besides acting was a gas station attendant.... DANIEL STERN HOWARD STERN ALAN STERN The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective ... ANDY STERN We run enormous risks and we know what kind of reductions of greenhouse gases are necessary to drast... NICHOLAS STERN Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, ... ANDY STERN Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. BILL STERN JOSH STERN I’m no expert, no natural-born talent, definitely no guru. As you’ll soon learn, only through a ... DANIEL STERN You will ultimately be defined by the sum total of your responses to circumstances, situations and e... DAVID STERN ALAN STERN The Ports Authority opposes this bill. It interferes with, and is inconsistent with, the Supreme Cou... BILL STERN I grew up in South Carolina. There are a lot of things about state government that we're not proud o... BILL STERN The only argument I keep hearing is you don't have the dollars to expand. Well, I'm addressing that.... BILL STERN Daniel Island will be disposed of as the governor has asked us to do. BILL STERN Edith was at the forefront of the move to modernist design that influenced architecture and furnitur... BILL STERN Our elections are free--it's in the results where eventually we pay. BILL STERN The Supreme Court made it clear that the authority gets the first shot at the land. With their decis... BILL STERN The port business is capacity. You've got to be able to serve your customer base today and future cu... BILL STERN Now it's time to change the perception that we don't want to work with the town. BILL STERN The decision speaks for itself and we're moving forward with condemnation. The interpretation is tha... BILL STERN Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. BILL STERN You really feel for them. The volunteers talk about their own personal experiences of being oppresse... BOB STERN free and democratic Iraq. BOB STERN It's not appropriate for City Hall to be used for private business. It seems the better part of valo... BOB STERN We need disclosure as to who is funding the Protocol Foundation, BOB STERN I would give odds that something would pass but it wouldn't shock me if they failed to agree. This i... BOB STERN He told us there were three N's of obesity. Nintendo. Netscape. And Nickelodeon. BOB STERN [The governor didn't pitch political reform] with his fingers crossed behind his back, ... But polit... BOB STERN It's much more important to raise money to defeat (Prop. 77) than it is to raise money for their own... BOB STERN When donors have wealthy relatives, that enhances the value of the donation. A candidate loves to kn... BOB STERN It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that c... BOB STERN It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and blac... DAVID STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN JOSH STERN If you look at all the serious scientists in the world, there is no big disagreement on the basics o... NICHOLAS STERN If coal is going to be used, the only response - because it is the dirtiest of all fuels - is that w... NICHOLAS STERN I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic... ANDY STERN SHOSHANNAH STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. ISAAC STERN Our elections are free -- it's in the results where eventually we pay. BILL STERN Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma ... JESSICA STERN Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on ... NICHOLAS STERN What we came up with is a dress code that even Mark Cuban could comply with - if he wanted to. DAVID STERN HOWARD STERN The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhou... NICHOLAS STERN ALAN STERN There are different uniforms for different occasions. There's the uniform you wear on the court, the... DAVID STERN ALAN STERN Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax. ZALMAN STERN How do we take the different assets that different unions bring to the table and use them strategica... ANDY STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN We're very excited about launching our third annual edition. It's amazing how much the Venture Capit... MICHAEL STERN Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. De... KARL STERN This isn't campaign money — it's government access money, and that's what we should call it. If yo... BOB STERN Nobody is minding the store. If you don't have any agency monitoring and no enforcement, people thin... BOB STERN That is a very Republican district. BOB STERN JOSH STERN If you're just talking to rich people, you're probably not going to hear a lot about health care for... BOB STERN HOWARD STERN ALAN STERN HOWARD STERN ALAN STERN JOSH STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN We couldn't get enough Jeremy Lin material in the NBA store fast enough. And when we did, it was... DAVID STERN You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaki... DAVID STERN I would say the issue for the labor movement in the United States is not structural... there is no c... ANDY STERN Being Canadian, we get excited about it. We take a lot of pride in wearing the Canada jersey. A lot ... ADAM STERN He's talked with a number of environmentalists nationally. We look forward to having a continued dis... ERIC STERN I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives. DAVID STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN HOWARD STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN There is no path to citizenship for those who work hard, pay taxes and want a chance to obtain the A... ANDY STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN ALAN STERN It is the most watched city in the world. There are street cameras in almost every corner! Intimidat... MICHAEL STERN Like in every city, some are healthy, some suffer. We try to establish a criteria and separate one m... MICHAEL STERN I was overwhelmed with emotion. MICHAEL STERN I wasn't asked to go, and I'm not one to just show up, ... I've since been told that it's dangerous ... MICHAEL STERN When you first become an EMT, you are extremely gung-ho, with a sense that you save lives, ... You a... MICHAEL STERN
My childhood was protected by love and a comfortable home. Yet, while still a very young child, I be... 
I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I t... 
I began writing when I was still in the British Foreign Service, and it was then understood that eve... 
I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to tak... 
You were about to tell me something, child, but you left off before you began. 
I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that ... 
I was looking for something. I mean, I'd begun practicing yoga and, you know, I was looking for the ... 
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would t... 
I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if ... 
For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is the... 
No one can travel your own road for you; you must travel it for yourself. My faith in this stems fro... 
My journey began when I found out about YouTube on how do you make music, and from that, people star... 
I missed you, Angel. Not one day went by that I didn't feel you missing from my life. You haunted me... 
My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were nev... 
When you are brought up as a frozen child, you go on freezing. It wasn't until I had my four son... 
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. 
We only got clothing once a year, like, right before school began. It's like, that's when yo... 
How much could be stripped from a people before they began stripping away themselves? The steep slop... 
I was born left-handed, but I was made to use my other hand. When I was writing 'Famished Road,&... 
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. 
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I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I g... 
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The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo a... 
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I... 
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First of all, from a spiritual perspective, I don't think anyone needs to be apologetic about be... 
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love. 
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time... 
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Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began. 
Kids are always writing me: 'I had a bad day too.' 'I got gum in my hair.' And the k... 
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what... 
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I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afrai... 
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se... 
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We'll be like kids in a candy shop. 
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The true genius of a Woman is her subtle flair in creating the illusion that you are the smart one 
Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. 
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Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair. 
It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly 
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up alway... 
Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in real... 
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