Taslima Nasrin quote: "I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished."

I went to boarding school in the country, so there's no real differentiation between family and ...
JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER

When I first started producing, all I had was this little crappy sampler called a S20, which had, li...
DIPLO

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
SARA PARETSKY

The first story I wrote was called 'Days,' and I have very little affection for it.
DEBORAH EISENBERG

I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hate...
DAVID LISS

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I ...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN

All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to ...
JOHN SEARLES

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't l...
SIRI HUSTVEDT

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when ...
KANDYSE MCCLURE

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can...
AHMET ERTEGUN

Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and...
E. F. BENSON

I have been hearing gossip and lies since I began working. When I was 17, I used to get very angry b...
PENELOPE CRUZ

Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 196...
TERRY RILEY

I've been playing since I was 16 or 17. When I was at Rutgers from '81 to '85, I was in a band calle...
BEN SOPRANZETTI

'The Conversation' was the first film I edited on a flatbed machine - a KEM editing machine....
WALTER MURCH

I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet C...
ELLIOTT CARTER

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong...
JACK WHITE

In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my ma...
CAROL BURNETT

'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this tra...
LUIS FONSI

When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to ch...
CHRISTIAN DE PORTZAMPARC

I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no id...
CYNTHIA VOIGT

Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing th...
EDMUND WHITE

I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 ...
HANYA YANAGIHARA

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it ...
LAUREN HOLLY

I'd been going up for things, but I hadn't got anything, and then 'Anne Frank' came ...
ELLIE KENDRICK

I re-mastered 'The Conversation' a few years ago for DVD. 'The Conversation' was the...
WALTER MURCH

I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'...
SAM KINISON

People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for...
GEORGE STEINBRENNER

I don't know about the hair. I've had it since I was a kid, and when I look at myself in the...
ERIK HASSLE

When 'Twin Peaks' happened the first time, I was a stage actor in Seattle. I was called in f...
WENDY ROBIE

I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as wel...
IMTIAZ ALI

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER

I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and...
IAN MCLAGAN

Sexuality, desirability has nothing to do with body type. It has to do with how you feel from within...
VIDYA BALAN

I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while i...
MARY BETH WHITEHEAD

I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't lig...
EVE ARNOLD

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was ra...
JOHN FULLER

When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

One day, I got so disgusted that I sat down and wrote a list called 'Justin's list of things...
JUSTIN ZACKHAM

My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are...
NATE HOLLAND

I certainly was performing before my writing was published, because I was performing when I was very...
RICKY JAY

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s...
EDMUND WHITE

My dad is from Nottingham - although I've only been there twice in my life, with one being when ...
JESS GLYNNE

I did go on safari in Kenya when I was 17, with my mother, stepfather and little brother, and I kept...
JENNIFER EGAN

When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike'...
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT

Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest ...
GARRETT HEDLUND

When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophica...
BARRY MCGUIRE

I had fallen in love with photography and was making a living doing photographic features for public...
DOUGLAS SLOCOMBE

My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art s...
ROGER REES

I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN

I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Th...
DIPLO

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going ...
MACKENZIE DAVIS

Life as a poet and actor truly became full circle as I stood on stage as host of 'Verses & F...
OMARI HARDWICK

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, bu...
SUSANA MARTINEZ

When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been ...
L. E. MODESITT, JR.

I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disa...
AMANDA PLUMMER

I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for al...
VILLE VALO

I was born and grew up in Phoenix, and I left there when I was 17 to go to Interlochen Arts Academy ...
KIMIKO GLENN

I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in te...
CHRIS CORNELL

I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ...
HARRIET WALTER

When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four m...
ELLEN GOODMAN

My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in...
OLIVIA COOKE

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, un...
MICHAEL MOORE

[In my youth], I played a little soccer but I think because of my height and my friends I got involv...
FABRICIO OBERTO

I do feel heartsick that the inequalities, if anything, are worse today than they were when I wrote ...
JONATHAN KOZOL

I was blacklisted because of this activity, so I'm not a typical anything.
KAREN MORLEY

You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, ...
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He g...
JONAH HILL

My life in the town I grew up in was much quieter than 'The End of Vandalism.' Part of the r...
TOM DRURY

Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never g...
JON KRAKAUER

I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a publi...
K. A. APPLEGATE

I have no musical talent at all. I was banned from music classes and told I would never be able to u...
ANDREW ELDRITCH

I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun wi...
EMMA WATSON

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought...
PATRICK DEMPSEY

My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my ...
ADAM SILVERA

I'd never been published when I was young.
JACK VANCE

I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young ...
MIRIAM MARGOLYES

One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca...
BILLY CRYSTAL

When I came up with the character of Wicket for 'Return Of The Jedi', which was my first fil...
WARWICK DAVIS

There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was s...
IMOGEN HEAP

Standup comedy was my weird hobby. I would drag my poor parents out to the only open mics that were ...
ALEXANDRA PETRI

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and ...
SIRIO MACCIONI

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY

When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage ye...
DAVE LOMBARDO

At a very young age, I could look at people and tell that everyone was, in a sense, worthless in the...
VINCE STAPLES

If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
IRWIN THOMAS

I was well acquainted with the gag that if you looked like your passport picture, you needed a trip....
FRANCES G. KNIGHT

We didn't have the phrase 'style icon' when I was young, but I have to say, I really cop...
PATTI SMITH

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

Well when I was young, when I was very young, when I was a little boy I don't remember the music...
ELLIOTT CARTER

I'm a big fan of 'National Geographic', the magazine and the channel. Anything to do wit...
TOM WESTON-JONES

Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't...
FRANK ABAGNALE

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the litt...
JANE GOODALL

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don...
IAN AXEL

I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playi...
JOHN NIVEN

Early on, when I wrote 'Little Man Tate,' I got pigeonholed. Somebody said to me, 'You&#...
SCOTT FRANK

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several...
STEVEN WRIGHT

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