Ann Maxwell
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SADIE FROST NIA VARDALOS LIBBA BRAY GORE VIDAL AYELET WALDMAN A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbi... ADAM HUGHES The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought ... CHARLES SOULE Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON BUCHI EMECHETA I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in th... JACK REYNOR TED DEKKER MARIE OSMOND My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at... BEN MARCUS CARRIE-ANNE MOSS The book of 'The Hobbit' was given to me to read by a friend of my mother when I was about 1... CONAN STEVENS NINA DOBREV KIEFER SUTHERLAND Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS DAVID ROBINSON I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON ADAM ANT HOWARD SCHULTZ DOROTHY ALLISON DAV PILKEY My first favourite book was 'Are You My Mother?' A picture book about a lost bird. After tha... RICK YANCEY There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is m... BOO WEEKLEY The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we we... HALLIE EPHRON I always knew I wanted to be in films but didn't want anyone to taunt my parents. So I excelled ... ANUSHKA SHARMA STEPHEN HAWKING ASHLEY OLSEN I think the first thing I did when I was a kid was a Maxwell House Coffee commercial with George Str... PHILIP WINCHESTER I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just... DOROTHY ATKINSON My youngest daughter sings. She's going to be very good. She's graduated from Music School a... BILLY ECKSTINE CANDACE BUSHNELL MARGARET STOHL HOLLY MARIE COMBS PATTI SMITH ELMORE LEONARD STORMZY KATE KLISE When I first meet a girl, I have some questions I go through if I'm interested in her. Like, if ... BLAIR REDFORD ANN HOOD Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a ... ERIC FLINT When I wrote my first serious novel, 'Interior', I was inspired by a 1978 book of Updike'... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT KATE MOSS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON ACTION BRONSON I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and the... ADAM LAMBERT 'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the book... RACHEL GIBSON BRITNEY SPEARS One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young wom... DAVID SCHWEIKERT ILAN STAVANS I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows ... MANIKA WILL FERRELL My mum will always come and see my shows if she can, and if she can't, she'll text or email ... RAIN PHOENIX LADY GAGA GERI HALLIWELL It's always good to see the world; always good to see new places. When I'm sitting at home, ... ROMAN REIGNS DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK SOPHIA AMORUSO TOM REISS MARY LAMBERT I met Drew Barrymore, and she was so cool. She told me, 'I know I just had my baby three weeks a... MADDIE ZIEGLER NICOLAS CAGE One day my wife went and saw the accountant and said she's pulling the plug. She said you guys a... ZAKK WYLDE KIRK DOUGLAS ZENDAYA It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ... RACHEL TUCKER KID ROCK A. J. MCLEAN ZAC EFRON ERIK LARSON I'd say specifically after 'Get Smart,' people now know me either as The Guy from 'G... NATE TORRENCE CANDACE CAMERON BURE I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in ... ELLEN DATLOW ACTION BRONSON ALEXANDER MCQUEEN MARYJANICE DAVIDSON When we were first offered a book deal prior to Avon's, they were trying to get us to change it ... KENNY LOGGINS Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH ACE FREHLEY One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was... FRANKIE VALLI When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful... DAVID WALLIAMS In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I... JANE YOLEN MICHIO KAKU IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
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Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate. ANN MAXWELL I have always loved the wild places between the Sierra Nevada range and the Rocky Mountains. The eas... ANN MAXWELL I am far more pragmatic than the stereotype of the sex permits. ANN MAXWELL Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out. MAXWELL I will say to all the fellas out there that, seriously, I am a setup. I'm just like rose petals.... MAXWELL I love my last-minute lifestyle because I just sort of don't have plans, and things kind of happ... MAXWELL Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I&#... MAXWELL So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to ... MAXWELL I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still... MAXWELL I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I reall... MAXWELL I just turned 40, and I look at so many performers and so many people who are actually always on tim... MAXWELL A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must... MAXWELL Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul.... MAXWELL MAXWELL PLANCK ELSA MAXWELL I am beyond thrilled to be hitting the road with 'Singin' in the Rain.' As a huge fan of... 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MEGAN MAXWELL -En mis ojos, fuiste mía desde el momento en el que te vi en el Starbucks con tu amiga. En mi mente... MEGAN MAXWELL In an age of immediacy the idea of waiting sounds hopelessly outdated. But that said, there is somet... MAXWELL RIVERA MAXWELL MALTZ MAXWELL MALTZ MAXWELL MALTZ MAXWELL MALTZ ELSA MAXWELL Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - ... MAXWELL CAULFIELD People often ask themselves the right questions. Where they fail is in answering the questions they ... WILLIAM MAXWELL We appreciated it, even though it has taken a long time. BOB MAXWELL There are towns where this is readily accepted and towns where it isn't. It's important to us that i... BOB MAXWELL The past will be forgotten quickly. The new director has the sound approach to take the zoo to new l... BOB MAXWELL It's very hard to break into the importing alcohol business, period, whether it's wine, beer or spir... 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