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My best-known book remains 'Henry and Clara,' a novel about the couple who were with the Lincolns at Ford's Theatre on April…

— Thomas Mallon

U2 have a lot of religion, also people like Johnny Cash and Elvis. Those people weren't shy about it - it's nice…

— Brandon Flowers

My four sons all knew I was a Jew, but they were allowed to be whatever they wanted to be. The only…

— Kirk Douglas

Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.

— Marc Martel

I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door…

— Kevin Powers

My mother was 18 when I was born. She split with my father when I was 6, and married another man when…

— Theresa Russell

I always hated when the studios just kind of said that anybody can act. You look at people like Spencer Tracy, Henry…

— Bob Newhart

Christine Bottomley and Navin Chowdhry were really fun to work with.

— Wunmi Mosaku

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say…

— Cynthia Kenyon

It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart…

— Simon Schama

I've always thought stand-up comedians were the oral storytellers of our time, because they know rhetoric, they know delivery, they know timing,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different…

— Jesse Plemons

When I saw the Penderecki concert in London, in '92 or '93, I thought there were speakers in the room. It was…

— Jonny Greenwood

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be... a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

— Noam Chomsky

We started getting the script to different people and we were in the business of trying to fund it so we could…

— Don Bluth

I take after my mother more than my father in terms of personality. My mother's a worrier, and I'm a worrier. Both…

— Michael Mina

The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my…

— Les Claypool

I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas…

— Jonah Peretti

I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing percussion very…

— Ronaldinho

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The Beach Boys have always been a part of the '60s spectrum, with The Beatles and that kind of thing. They were…

— Brian Wilson

If I'm honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did - we all did - but it sort…

— Shane Filan

When I started playing, there were no teams and no structure, so I had to play with the boys. I get very…

— Marta

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of…

— Brian Posehn

'Anna Nicole' came from Guess Jeans; Paul Marciano and me and one of his friends, we were sitting around coming up with…

— Anna Nicole Smith

If I were a Chinese dissident, I'd be grateful that Cisco had helped bring the Internet to China, but I'd also be…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

When I was a child I watched the Italian league a lot because there were many Brazilians there.

— Oscar

Throughout the United States, at the dawn of the Progressive era, dozens of laws and regulations were established to empower police officers,…

— Michael Specter

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the…

— Jung Chang

Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their…

— Ha-Joon Chang

My father figures were my coaches.

— Dabo Swinney

The life of a bestselling novelist sounds like it ought to be spectacularly glamorous and fun, but in fact I spend most…

— Jane Green

Larry Hart and Dick Rodgers were both bright Jewish boys from Manhattan who at one point or another went to Columbia, but…

— Robert Gottlieb

There is research on the effects of 9/11, and you know, compared to the enormity of it, it didn't have a huge…

— Daniel Kahneman

In the fall of 1968, I became attractive to women. One day I was an ignored schlub in the street, then suddenly…

— Robert Crumb

Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,…

— Jules Verne

I was pleased that two very disparate photographs, two images that each worked in their own way had appealed enough to other…

— Graeme Le Saux

Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

— Zaha Hadid

I realised that a lot of women felt the same way I did - they didn't want to wear heavy make-up, but,…

— Louise Nurding

I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said…

— E. L. Doctorow