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I joined the local athletics club when I was 12, that's what I did. I did it of my own volition. SEBASTIAN COE
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That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is. LESLEY GARRETT When I was 18 and not sure whether I wanted to be an actor, I realised that a playwright has no voic...
DAVID SUCHET A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ...
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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. HENRY MILLER
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JEFFERY DEAVER
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone sa... TANITH LEE She is an example of why you need to do what you want to do, and be doing that today. For my student...
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I know who I am and what I'm doing in my life and what I've accomplished and continue to acc... JUSTIN BIEBER
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I love it when you go to see something, and you enter as an individual, and you leave as a group. Be... TOM HIDDLESTON I was playing a Fender Telecaster when I first joined.
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It's not that I bounce ideas off of my children as much as it is that having children has had a ... JULIANNA BAGGOTT In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part...
RAJAT MOHAN
I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of th... KENNETH BRANAGH
Most of my success, I feel, comes from being a good editor as opposed to a great writer. TUCKER MAX I knew my mother was a good person, a wonderful person, but I didn't know to what extent until peopl...
VELMA EVANS
I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as wel... IMTIAZ ALI When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite c...
LINWOOD BARCLAY
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me a... SANDRA CISNEROS
I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over ... DIAN FOSSEY Since first hearing the story as a child, any mention of the 'Boston Tea Party' has elicited...
GREG FITZSIMMONS I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, be...
BRIAN ALDISS This has probably been the most fun baseball total experience as I have had in my life, ... I've nev...
HUSTON STREET Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by th...
MIGUEL
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri... ANTHONY BURGESS This was a wonderful experience, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I think he was happy knowing the ...
KAREN WEAVER When the opportunity came up to do this I was just thrilled. It is a wonderful play in that it is so...
JOE SMITH When I first started playing, I was playing all the time. You don't have to get a group of guys toge...
EVAN DEPEW I was in Toronto with my parents, and my dad took me to an outdoor hockey rink. I was 3 or 4, and I ...
WYATT RUSSELL When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, wh...
WAITE HOYT It did not occur to me that I might be a writer until I flunked out of my first year as a chemistry ...
PETER CAREY
A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist... VLADIMIR NABOKOV
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS
I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the w... J. K. SIMMONS Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-openin...
LANE GARRISON Happy Days was a wonderful, wonderful experience and I would not have traded it for the world.
MARION ROSS
When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of ... VERA BRITTAIN I came in here when we were struggling a little bit, not as much as they were when (Wilson and Levin...
LUCIOUS JORDAN
She was a wonderful poet, a good short-story writer and a fine novelist. RAY BRADBURY I joined Hadassah because I knew they did wonderful work, ... My own father was a physician and buil...
DIANE ROSS When I saw 'The Player', I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my ex...
DOUGLAS WOOD With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the mark...
VICTOR KOO
I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you hal... RUTH REICHL
I'm transitioning to television and film, but ultimately, I want to have a stronger presence on ... 
There's so many, 'no, black people aren't like that' barriers in mainstream media. 
I'll stick to finding the funny in the ordinary because my life is pretty ordinary and so are th... 