But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.
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DIXIE CARTER I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to... ANN RICHARDS I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe... RUBEN BLADES That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to si... JOHNNY CASH I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we did... ABBEY LINCOLN We can't forget Pearl Harbor, but I'm afraid that we might. At one time we had some young people fro... JACK HANNA I was mugged when I was 12. I had a portable radio, and I ran into this building and these two guys ... FREDDIE PRINZE We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was liste... JONI MITCHELL I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchi... MARGARET THATCHER Ray and I both grew up with radio. 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BOZ SCAGGS I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit... CASEY KASEM When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to... BEBE REXHA My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years ... DOLLY PARTON My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a... EMMA WATSON We had her for seven years until she got sick and we had to put her down, that was just in December. JAMIE WOODRUFF My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before t... BEVERLY CLEARY Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him o... RICHARD WIDMARK In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War. CHUCK JONES [PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii -- James Starnes will never forget the day World War II officially ended with ... JAMES STARNES [PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - James Starnes will never forget the day World War II officially ended with J... JAMES STARNES Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess... WILLIAM MANCHESTER I became inspired while I was listening to music on the radio. I felt the music in my head sounded b... BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Mos... THOM YORKE We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war,... STEPHEN HAWKING I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't i... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I ... RYAN SEACREST When I was a kid,if you were lucky, you listened to that music on Radio Luxembourg or the American F... GEORGIE FAME I was born into a very, very poor family during the war in 1941. Life was miserable for everyone. PAVEL FOMIN When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And t... LINDA BLAIR I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ... DOUG DAVIDSON Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, honestly believed that he could reaso... CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER, "SEAWATER ONE...." I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long d... KIRSTEN DUNST Before MS moved in on me, I'd worked for seven years as a city lawyer, as the editor of a litera... M. J. HYLAND Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics. Half of them I'd hear off... ALAN JACKSON I'm so ugly - My mother had morning sickness - After I was born RODNEY DANGERFIELD My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As... CHESLEY SULLENBERGER Living in L.A. keeps me in my car a lot, and I'm constantly flipping back and forth between the ... R. J. CUTLER History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World... FRANK GAFFNEY The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL As I was born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, I used to listen to a lot of Hindi songs over radi... MOHIT CHAUHAN Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listeni... ANNETTE FUNICELLO After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor. JACK ADAMS I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of ... 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SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co... SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love... SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr... SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T... SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain... SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi... SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things. SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i... SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ... SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi... SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi... SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe... SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey. SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ... SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which... SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m... SAM MENDES