I'm too young to have experienced firsthand the '70s rock, but when I was in high school, me and my friends were super into Neil Young. That was the grunge era, and he was considered cool again.
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DOUGLAS BOOTH My mom and grandmother were actresses, and I knew I was going to do this since I was super young. I ... ZOE KRAVITZ I'm of Neil Young's generation. Neil Young's songs have spoken to what it's like to ... JONATHAN DEMME He painted me when I was young because he was in love with me, but now that he has loved me he doesn... JANE BIRKIN I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I ... PAUL WALKER In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart a... DAVID SPADE When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't u... MANNY MONTANA When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I ... LINA WERTMULLER I never looked at it that way. I didn't play high school football, so I had a late start. I was youn... BEN DAVIDSON I knew that I could sing when I was young. 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TIM O'BRIEN ...his love was too much for him, he felt paralyzed, he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe... TIM O'BRIEN But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of th... TIM O'BRIEN The wait is long, my dream of you does not end. NUALA O'FAOLAIN There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrib... JOHN O'DONOHUE I’d begun to think of the Immortality Bus as the Entropy Bus, and of ourselves as trundling across... MARK O'CONNELL It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. GEORGIA O'KEEFFE Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore... EDNA O'BRIEN I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. FLANNERY O'CONNOR You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to t... P.J. O'ROURKE And although in many cases these unions proved happy enough, sailors being excellent husbands, often... PATRICK O'BRIAN Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR My body is not my own any more. They have stamped their names all over it. LOUISE O'NEILL The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from t... JOHN O'DONOHUE Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu... KERRIE O'CONNOR Having a Coke with You is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biar... FRANK O'HARA Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She had a vision of the two of them trapped on a tiny raft surrounded by miles of open water. It wou... STEWART O'NAN I would not hurt you, little man,' he said. 'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar... FLANN O'BRIEN Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you're real and brutally honest. Yellow is wi... ROSIE O'DONNELL Grace changes us and change is painful". FLANNERY O'CONNOR The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti... FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. FLANNERY O'CONNOR She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at... EUGENE O'NEILL I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love. FRANK O'HARA Stand up, be counted. We have the numbers. BILL O'REILLY Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they're doing, or how their hair looks. Nobo... ERICA O'ROURKE