Back Quote by Bear McCreary

“Melville, by his own account, spent four months in the valley. He was well treated. He made friends with a girl called Fayaway, swam…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I met Andy Warhol in the '60s, a wonderful time, with wonderful people. There was Fred Hughes, and Jed Johnson, who I liked a…

— Pierre Berge

My dad was a crab fisherman.

— Darby Stanchfield

My grandad was a prawn fisherman who built his own boat.

— George Clarke

Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him on a…

— Richard Widmark

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World…

— Laura Hillenbrand

My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.

— Marco Rubio

I had a father who was a traveling salesman.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

I'm a fan of Ernest Hemingway work and specifically The Old Man and the Sea. I researched the relationship he had with the captain…

— Andy Garcia

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with…

— Frank Stella

(Lisa Henson about her father) He admired the job of the man who walks along the road picking up trash with a long stick.…

— Jim Henson

Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in…

— Joseph Barbera