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RON SHOCK The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for a... DANA STABENOW I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter... EVE GOLDEN I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on differe... JOHN SAXON My treatment ended in March/April of '08. It wasn't until the end of that summer that I star... ROBIN ROBERTS Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly beca... LEO KOTTKE I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play t... KATE THOMPSON There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you... RANDY PAUSCH When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe t... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ I've never had anyone put on a puppet show to convince me of anything. And I've done a lot o... GARRY SHANDLING It was June 4, 1979, the first time I went on stage. I didn't know I could do it but I knew I co... GEORGE LOPEZ As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as... PHIL HARTMAN Demagoguery sells. And therefore radio stations will put it on. But that doesn't mean that you c... AL FRANKEN Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be... CHARLES FRAZIER The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'O... SANDRA OH Someone made me a Leaf Coneybear finger puppet. Someone made me a portrait of me on some chocolate. ... BARRETT FOA I eat healthy when I can; I eat a burger when I want, and I work out. You have to live with the rout... GIGI HADID I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in t... KENDALL JENNER 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from M... BOBBY FLAY At the age of ten, I thought if a boy kissed you on the lips, you would have a baby, and I surely wa... GINGER ROGERS When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They ... HANS MATHESON I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it unti... OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of... ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that whe... CATHY GUISEWITE I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and... BRUCE GREENWOOD In 'D.A.R.Y.L.' there was a part where I had to freeze to death, and they didn't even us... 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NEAL BOORTZ Chicken fat, beef fat, fish fat, fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving... NEAL BARNARD I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. LARRY NEAL The accountant lingers at his children's doorway a moment more, listening to the easy rhythm of thei... NEAL SHUSTERMAN Perhaps that is the greatest crime of conquest--that a civilization is denied the right to evolve be... NEAL SHUSTERMAN In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their ... PATRICIA NEAL The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end. NEAL SHUSTERMAN Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he c... NEAL STEPHENSON Ninety-nine percent of everything that goes on in most Christian churches has nothing whatsoever to ... NEAL STEPHENSON From long experience in places like Afghanisatan and Chechnya, Sokolov recognised, in the black jiha... NEAL STEPHENSON Technically, of course, he was right. Socially, he was annoying us. NEAL STEPHENSON Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I... NEAL SHUSTERMAN I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless. NEAL SHUSTERMAN For weeks Charlie had been singing the same song over and over again.“Dinah won’t you b... NEAL SHUSTERMAN A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. JOHN NEAL Choice strengthens all. NEAL PRESCOT Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there... NEAL CASSADY A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. PATRICIA NEAL The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons. LEONARD NEAL Nell did not imagine that Constable Moore wanted to get into a detailed discussion of recent events,... NEAL STEPHENSON A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations. PATRICIA NEAL Who knew that dog saliva can mend a broken heart? JENNIFER NEAL Disappearing can be quite the coping mechanism for those of us who fear abandonment the very most of... JENNIFER NEAL She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what s... NEAL STEPHENSON Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses. RICHARD NEAL