I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
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Related I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, o... PATRICK MACNEE There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I ... CLAIRE DANES I wrote 'Marvels,' which was about a guy who had two daughters, and I wrote 'Astro City ... KURT BUSIEK ...I told him a story of two people. Two people who shouldn't have met, and who didn't like each oth... JOJO MOYES Like so many people, I only remembered Orson Welles as this huge, fat, bearded figure selling wine i... CHRISTIAN MCKAY Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm on... MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've... BETTY WHITE Some years ago, I read an article about two people in the arts (alas, I can’t remember who they we... TERRI WINDLING There's Kenyan guys who last year or two years ago were running for Kenya, and then they switche... MO FARAH I only did about one novel a year while I was working full time, but since 1993, I've averaged t... L. E. MODESITT, JR. I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked m... ADAM MANSBACH When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really h... EDMUND HILLARY If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles. CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't tal... CANDIS CAYNE A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might l... ALAN ALDA I'm afraid it's something we're going to have to deal with more. I think they should stay four years... DICK UMILE I think St. Joseph is a much better team that they were in December. Their third and fourth swimmers... MIKE SULLIVAN I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life ... ALEKSANDAR HEMON I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me s... SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I'm aware of what kids like because I'm constantly in touch with them. Also, they say that a... ERIC WILSON We've met them the last two years and we knew they were good. They're better than they were last yea... ALLEN HUGHES I remember, back when I was running one of the trucks, you'd have one or two stocked each year. I st... CLYDE WELSH When he spins, he is very fast. He knows where he is in the air. He twists better than any diver I h... GARY GUADAGNINO I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative.... HAROLD PRINCE A: I like your apartment. B: It's nice, but it's only big enough for one person – or two peop... ANDY WARHOL Studies showed that maybe 60 percent of the revenues from a game are concessions - so they had a bia... STEPHEN HAPPEL The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems... BEN CARSON I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL It astounds me that I just keep getting better. I'm going to keep believing in myself and realize th... CRISTIE KERR I thought we rebounded as good or better than we have all year. Lennox has a big, physical and athle... CHESTER COACH SCOTT LANGEROCK I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' maga... ROBERT ENGLUND Before the show, there's about two or two and a half hours of meet and greets with radio station... TRISHA YEARWOOD I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ... KATE VOEGELE I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the thing... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a ... SARAH MCLACHLAN I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been ... MANDY PATINKIN He only had one year and look what he accomplished. I have two years, and I hope to do big things wi... ANTHONY MORELLI After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not j... JA RULE I don't have a real home. When I got 'Avatar,' I sold everything that I owned because I ... SAM WORTHINGTON I personally think going to Mars, if it takes two years or two and a half years, that's doable. ... SCOTT KELLY I think it's great to see how they've grown up, not just as actors but as people. They'r... DAVID HEYMAN Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be t... STEVE JURVETSON I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age. BRADY CORBET I think we can be better this year than we were the past two. We have a very steady team that is ver... JOE MINUTILLO The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've ... JACK KELLEY Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that th... RAM CHARAN I've got a 15-year old son and a 10-year old daughter, and if they were going to do one of the follo... PETE ROSE I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic. BILLY SHERWOOD Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two. BALTHAZAR GETTY I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because ... DIANA ROSS I don't know what to expect out of my films. My first two films were with extremely talented dir... SONAM KAPOOR I'm disappointed in acting as a craft. I want everything to go back to Orson Welles and fake nos... SPENCER TRACY I am a mom first and foremost. That's why I don't tour. People ask why I don't have CDs and live in ... ANGIE MCWHIRTER I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - G... MARIE WINDSOR What do you mean, 'Angle of Repose?' she asked me when I dreamed we were talking about Grandmother's... WALLACE STEGNER I've been trying to get into comedy for years. I had a meeting with one of the networks a couple... NATALIE ZEA I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent. RED ADAIR I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to... ALAN HOVHANESS I wish I were one of those terribly clever people who, when they write their autobiographies, always... GEORGE SEATON Two years ago. To the best of my recollection, that was about the time I started to lose my mind. STEPHEN KING I don't know how much more what I've done is any more important than what Ella Fitzgerald di... AL JARREAU I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told m... MARCO RUBIO Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support ... LIONEL MESSI I think they will have the chance to really do well after having two years of junior college under t... ROGER HOLTKAMP When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begi... ZHANG ZIYI My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and... STANA KATIC Hotel buyers have to be much smarter now than they did a year or two ago. BJORN HANSON I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... DARREN ARONOFSKY Over the years, a number of people have asked me why I tend to write at this great length. I've ... KATHARINE KERR I read in the 'Daily Mail' that I'm one of these 'foul-mouthed comedians.' But I... STEWART LEE They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is ... CASSANDRA CLARE Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all t... VINCE GILL I think that I am a collaborative fascist. With Natalie it was different, she was only 11-years-old ... LUC BESSON Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I... JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME I have, like, two and a half years of failed jokes that I know I wouldn't repeat, but I certainl... TARAN KILLAM My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple... DWIGHT GOODEN They weren’t a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the... L.J. SMITH I don't think I am that hands-on. I'm much more of a believer in finding a great team of peo... ANNA WINTOUR I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass... HAMILTON JORDAN When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt lik... BAT FOR LASHES I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then ... STEVE BURNS It's definitely a different team this past year than it was two years ago. I don't want to say that ... BRYAN MATTISON I still deal with triggers and neuroses that I've developed over the decades. But I do think I h... JOHN GRANT They noticed in the first half that I took only two shots. I think they were hoping I would shoot. CHAUNCEY DUKE I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a ... DANICA PATRICK I've been blessed to have an amazing mom and two amazing sisters - so they set a very high stand... TIM TEBOW You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to... RICH MOORE When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustratio... JUSTIN TRUDEAU I have a love affair with tomatoes and corn. I remember them from my childhood. I only had them in t... ALICE WATERS I'm one of those people who has always struggled with emotions and revealing them. When my dog O... JON KATZ Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I... RANDY JOHNSON I know people that have worked two years that still makes around $15,000, but I know people that hav... KARLA LOVE I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leaders... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Gra... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI I have two daughters, and they grew up and wanted to get into Instagram, and I didn't know anyth... EMMANUEL LUBEZKI I remember they were very physical and they were very fast. But they were nothing to be scared of. I... LARISSA LUTHER Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? Th... CHUCK PALAHNIUK A lot of people resent that I've been in someone's life for 50 years. Why shouldn't peop... JERRY LEWIS I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn'... CAITLIN ROSE
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ORSON PRATT I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith. ORSON PRATT Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice o... ORSON PRATT It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorize... ORSON PRATT The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and p... ORSON PRATT An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, a... ORSON PRATT At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to ... ORSON PRATT Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were sa... ORSON PRATT On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was... 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JEANNE KOHL-WELLES I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. ORSON SCOTT CARD Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. ORSON SCOTT CARD One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself. ORSON SCOTT CARD I listen to music constantly while writing. ORSON SCOTT CARD There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citize... ORSON SCOTT CARD Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of... ORSON SCOTT CARD Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books. ORSON SCOTT CARD I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values tha... ORSON SCOTT CARD The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inve... ORSON SCOTT CARD But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - par... ORSON SCOTT CARD You who speak languages, you are such liars. ORSON SCOTT CARD The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppe... ORSON SCOTT CARD The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. ORSON SCOTT CARD Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall ... ORSON SCOTT CARD In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th... ORSON SCOTT CARD The education that prepared me was my general education classes, which I tried to avoid when I was a... ORSON SCOTT CARD God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - t... ORSON SCOTT CARD Working is hard and distracts from having fun. ORSON SCOTT CARD There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to... ORSON SCOTT CARD I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people. ORSON SCOTT CARD Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. ORSON SCOTT CARD Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius. ORSON F. WHITNEY It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are... ORSON F. WHITNEY Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for? ORSON F. WHITNEY Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. ORSON F. WHITNEY Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are g... ORSON F. WHITNEY Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his serv... ORSON F. WHITNEY Sound moral principle is the only sure evidence of strength, the only firm foundation of greatness a... ORSON F. WHITNEY You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are... ORSON F. WHITNEY Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreci... ORSON F. WHITNEY The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The... ORSON F. WHITNEY Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liber... ORSON F. WHITNEY No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to the development of su... ORSON F. WHITNEY The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a cou... ORSON SCOTT CARD In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in th... ORSON SCOTT CARD You made them hate me." Said Ender "So? What will you do about it? Crawl in a corner? Start kis... ORSON SCOTT CARD No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the... ORSON F. WHITNEY I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I w... ORSON SCOTT CARD