Andrew Motion
Related I was 10, and I played Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at school, and this great Liverpudli... STEPHEN GRAHAM I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started l... TAYLOR KINNEY DANICA PATRICK DAVID HAREWOOD VIKRAM SETH RAM DASS He was an avid reader, would read a book every two or three days. Then I started to notice the same ... GAIL BIRD When my younger son was 13 years old, he asked me to read 'Swallows and Amazons' to him whil... MICHELLE MAGORIAN At first I thought, 'he's a teenager, he's irritable,' but then I knew it was more than that. Then h... JANE SMITH I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on Late Night. We just had a ... NORM MACDONALD When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story ... JANE CAMPION The first time I saw him, I had gone to scout a real good linebacker that University had. I asked th... BOBBY BURTON SUE TOWNSEND I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by th... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read th... TABITHA SOREN Hal Prince and Andrew actually asked me if I would be interested in continuing with 'Phantom'... COLM WILKINSON ALAIN DE BOTTON Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was rea... JANE CAMPION Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha... MARTIN CLUNES DANIEL RADCLIFFE The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a... MICHAEL HASTINGS NORTON JUSTER I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the mos... CAROL WINDLEY JONAH HILL So I told him I'd sell him a new wheel at cost, and I ordered it, but later he came in and said he'd... BRAD STEWART If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have reti... GARY SPEED I was a freshman at Stanford University the first time someone called me a 'bama.' One of my... JESMYN WARD When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before ... FRANZ WRIGHT JAMES BALDWIN I never knew my grandfather. He died the year before I was born. But as a child, he did, of course, ... JAMIE WYETH I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because ... DANIEL PETRIE WILLIAM SANDERSON I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and h... NICOLAS ROEG JHUMPA LAHIRI GRANT MORRISON I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I My brother started in the music business, and I was an actor - we were both in the entertainment ind... NOAH EMMERICH VICTORIA SCHWAB I'm a member of the American Chemical Society, and in its magazine, the 'Chemical and Engine... DONNA NELSON ADAM SAVAGE CHARLES SCHWAB PETER FALK In fact, during that first week after the Colts' game, when it hurt so bad I could hardly sleep and ... DAN MARINO MICHAEL HEIZER CHARLIE TROTTER Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway... JANE BIRKIN When he first started - Jim Henson, who created Bid Bird and Oscar - he said Big Bird was just a big... CAROLL SPINNEY I started out doing improvised voices when I started working in a program where I read for kids in s... STEVEN BLUM After a pretty devastating loss last Friday, I wondered how the players would respond but I knew eve... JOE AIELLO KATEE SACKHOFF MONICA BELLUCCI My father was my first inspiration. He had an incredible stereo and a turntable, and I was told not ... GRANDMASTER FLASH As I read 'The Infinities', with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the ... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT KATIE MCGRATH PETER HIGGS VICTOR MITCHELL ANTHONY JOSHUA I couldn't believe they were going to let us read something like that. At first, I didn't want to re... CANDICE WILLIAMS KEVIN GATES MO FARAH LANA DEL REY I got into medicine at university, then deferred a year to see. Then I started acting and just never... MIRANDA OTTO TOM HIDDLESTON RANBIR KAPOOR DEMETRI MARTIN KEVIN GATES HUNTER HAYES Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector... JOE SHUSTER PALMER LUCKEY When I first started swinging a bat, I swung righty. So one time, my dad came home, and he wanted to... PRINCE FIELDER ROBIN WILLIAMS TOMMY LEE I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil... HENNING MANKELL NELSON MANDELA I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean... T.J. KLUNE I traced a finger along my bottom lip as I wondered what his erection would look like, and how I sho... FIONA THRUST TWINKLE KHANNA LAUREN HOLLY JESSICA BIEL DAMIAN WOETZEL When I turned 30, I realised the value of time and with it, the other important things in life. That... RANI MUKERJI I notice how well or badly a guy treats a waiter, or whether he's kind to some people and not to... SARAH WYNTER I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It ... EDDIE CAMPBELL A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't kn... CHARLIE DANIELS BILL CLEGG The first time I met Leo Messi, I didn't know who he was, only that I couldn't believe the b... SERGIO AGUERO Coach was trying to throw different stuff at them. When they were in the zone, he wanted me to work ... KAMMRON TAYLOR I have to say that when I first started singing, I didn't think it was a very noble profession. ... LESLEY GORE FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY TIM BURTON I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 tim... ROB REINER ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the... DAMIEN RICE JEFF NICHOLS BOBBY KNIGHT HUEY NEWTON ALICE WALKER I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I ... DAVID BLAINE My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come. VALENTINO GARAVANI ARI GRAYNOR
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