Happy man Quote by Mikhail Iossel

“What most people would consider a mundane job—same streets, same view, same stops and starts—I enlivened by getting to know my regulars. In fact,…

— Susan May

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any…

— Graham Swift

[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a…

— Mary Antin

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out…

— William Styron

It's been a long road. A humble Dearborn beginning. Secretary mom, dad teaching handicapped children. Working for what they had. Eventually, I moved to…

— David Burtka

Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I…

— Irina Shayk

I became a journalist because one didn't have to specialise.

— Christopher Hitchens

I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it.

— Jonathan Evison

I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to…

— Cat Power

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal,…

— William Saroyan

“I tried to focus on my toes, looking for answers to the questions swirling around in my head, wondering if my reasons for traveling…

— John Harris

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could…

— John Travolta