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KELLY JONES![]()
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DEYTH BANGER![]()
And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for...
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LISA GARDNER I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one...
ALEXIS BLEDEL I think I experienced just about every emotion that day. It was so exciting, and I was so proud that...
GARY COOK![]()
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jac...
ICE T I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if ...
ALEXI ZENTNER So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a vo...
TIM VINE![]()
The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My atti...
NAS I was there early. I think I was reading Atlas Shrugged . He got there, we ordered coffee. He was a ...
BRANDON ROUTH I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open my...
MOISES ARIAS We never got there. ... One of us was arrested in Shreveport ... and the car finally dropped dead in...
HOLLY WOODLAWN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER![]()
'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of ...
BAILEY CHASE My wife said she saw me warm up and she went upstairs behind the bullpen to bring others to watch me...
TODD COFFEY [Being cast in the movie] sort of happened by accident, ... I wasn't looking to be an actress ... it...
KATE NAUTA That one got a little inside. I saw the guy (Whitner) and I tried to put the ball outside, so if it ...
JOSH BETTS A friend called me up and said there's a story in there you really need to read. So I read it, and I...
DIANA OSSANA We grew up on a ranch in North Dakota. Paige was really good at breaking horses. But one day this ho...
GERARD BAKER![]()
There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was wate...
NIK WALLENDA![]()
They asked me to come in and read for them. My reading was horrible. I laughed through the whole thi...
ROSIE PEREZ![]()
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr...
MADONNA CICCONE I was looking in the back of The New York Times for ads for homes in New Hampshire, and there weren'...
CARL GABLE![]()
I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They ...
BEN BERNANKE (The line) got after them, that was a big thing for us. Vincent Simmons picked up some tough yards f...
DAN FAUSER He was the first one down there. I thought, He's going to fight me for this. So I figured I'd just g...
BRANDON LLOYD He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from...
JENNIFER WESTER I finished my workout, but stayed to watch the game. I sat near him. He looked over and asked me if ...
MIKE AVILES So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?&#...
TIM VINE![]()
On Phantom... I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away....
GERARD BUTLER When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col...
STACEY FARBER We had to shoot the Last Splash dance scene, and that was the song that was playing. So we probably ...
EMMA ROBERTS![]()
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was...
CHARLIZE THERON That was the only cutter I threw all game. It was a bad pitch, it floated up there, so I was frustra...
DAN HAREN We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL ![]()
I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too...
TANA FRENCH![]()
There was nothing New York liked reading about more than itself.
GARTH RISK HALLBERG I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the...
JORDANA BREWSTER![]()
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for ...
ELLEN BURSTYN I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Stree...
SAOIRSE RONAN I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day....
SAMMY SOSA The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso'...
ROBERT DUVALL It was my last option there. He was practically holding me down in the front, so I had to go behind ...
MATT POSKAY![]()
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Tim...
KEVIN BACON![]()
The problem with a plan is that you fill up the blank page of a new day with a 'to-do' list b...
JOHN C. PARKIN I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every ...
SAMMY SOSA It stressed me out just thinking about how I would have felt if Jon Zion had left while I was there....
JOHN OLVER![]()
It seemed to me so much more sensible to make something up than go through the tedious business of i...
E. L. DOCTOROW![]()
I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd d...
FRANK MCCOURT This coolant system, which is about the size of that table, ... Pulled it down through the ceiling �...
CONAN O'BRIEN I just saw it, I thought it was there and I just wanted to get in, ... I didn't want to spike the ba...
MATT LEINART They took a story that was going to be laugh lines for late-night comedians and turned it into a fro...
STEPHEN HESS One thing I did was stop thinking so much. I'm just going out there and swinging the bat.
JENNY DOBBERTIN![]()
I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student Le...
JOHN MELLENCAMP![]()
I wanted to go [to Africa] because I read an article in the New York Times about education becoming ...
DREW BARRYMORE I was at the University of Barcelona in Spain when the Spanish Civil War was starting in 1933 and th...
HENRY TORNELL I'm thinking about that afternoon you came to the empty restaurant, that day after the Alchemist. Yo...
CAROLYN CRANE![]()
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible...
LADY GAGA I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a s...
KRISTANNA LOKEN![]()
I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout...
J.D. SALINGER There was notification just before dusk that there was some concern. Our helicopters . . . fly dur...
JAN WOODFORD I called him to find out where he got the pamphlet and all he said was it was missing the label, ......
WILLIAM WATSON My sons picked up trash for 21/2 hours one day. The next day, there was so much trash, it looked lik...
ANDREA COOK![]()
I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working o...
MEG CABOT He was so well behaved back in the day. He was one of the few crew members we could count on. There ...
JEFF LABAR All of the sudden I see the phone ring. I stared at it for a minute. Should I answer it? I picked it...
MIKE SELLERS![]()
I knew that the show was coming and they wanted me to have a co-host. And so I asked Mary Hart and s...
REGIS PHILBIN The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle...
BENJAMIN COHEN The idea came to me when I was doing a show and saw this girl sitting down front and she was wearing...
MARTI DODSON![]()
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON![]()
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON![]()
When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinn...
STEPHENIE MEYER Aside from the physical sensation of hiking the Trail, it became a real intellectual adventure, too ...
IAN MARSHALL Caitlyn (telling a story of her friend): So. [She] grew up and left Neverland for the distant planet...
ZECHARIAH BARRETT It was a huge at-bat, because the game was pretty close. We had guys on first and second, so in my m...
BEN SAYLOR I thought '23' was kind of an odd number, ... I asked for 14, and Yosh totally turned me down and sa...
RYNE SANDBERG We were third-and-long, so I was thinking first down. That?s really all I was going for. But I was w...
JUSTIN BROUSE These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything wa...
KEATON THOMAS When I went into the business, I sat down and figured that I was indeed one of fortune's children. J...
FRANK MAYER I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I eve...
MICHAEL WOLF I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
THOMAS WATSON, JR. The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instea...
LESLEY GORE It's definitely special to win this race, especially for a lot of guys like me who knew Henry for so...
BYRON HO When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy,...
PIA TOSCANO I don't know how [Green] is blaming me because I was on the bumper of the car in front of me and jus...
DALE JARRETT I was all worried about not knowing anyone when I got up there. But there was nothing to worry about...
ANGELA LEWIS![]()
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought t...
ARTHUR GOLDEN My main focus was not to kill the bullpen. We've got a crucial stretch coming up with Anaheim and Ne...
JOE KENNEDY I remember sitting up there in Kentucky just thinking I was so frustrated and mad that I wanted to h...
CARL KRAUSER Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.
ARTHUR ROCK For 'Avengers,' in the Albuquerque desert, we shot New York there. And I was standing on a p...
STELLAN SKARSGARD There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So...
NATHAN SAWAYA![]()
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really ki...
LEWIS BLACK I had a son who wanted to play college basketball, so this is what we did. We made up a resume sheet...
DALE NEAL![]()
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day...
GROUCHO MARX From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I...
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
KELLY JONES
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER
And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for... WARREN CUCCURULLO I remember seeing Bill Hurt in New York once. I talked to him on the phone around 1988 and that'...
TOM BERENGER When I got my very first phone call that I'd hit the 'New York Times' list, I had a smal...
LISA GARDNER I was modeling with an agency in New York and a manager with the agency introduced himself to me one...
ALEXIS BLEDEL I think I experienced just about every emotion that day. It was so exciting, and I was so proud that...
GARY COOK
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jac... ICE T I grew up reading thrillers, science fiction, fantasy - you name it - and one day I asked myself if ...
ALEXI ZENTNER So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a vo...
TIM VINE
The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My atti...
NAS I was there early. I think I was reading Atlas Shrugged . He got there, we ordered coffee. He was a ...
BRANDON ROUTH I was really shy when I was younger, so my mom got me into an acting class to see if I would open my...
MOISES ARIAS We never got there. ... One of us was arrested in Shreveport ... and the car finally dropped dead in...
HOLLY WOODLAWN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of ... BAILEY CHASE My wife said she saw me warm up and she went upstairs behind the bullpen to bring others to watch me...
TODD COFFEY [Being cast in the movie] sort of happened by accident, ... I wasn't looking to be an actress ... it...
KATE NAUTA That one got a little inside. I saw the guy (Whitner) and I tried to put the ball outside, so if it ...
JOSH BETTS A friend called me up and said there's a story in there you really need to read. So I read it, and I...
DIANA OSSANA We grew up on a ranch in North Dakota. Paige was really good at breaking horses. But one day this ho...
GERARD BAKER
There was no way to focus on the movement of the cable. If I looked down at the cable there was wate... NIK WALLENDA
They asked me to come in and read for them. My reading was horrible. I laughed through the whole thi... ROSIE PEREZ
When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contr... MADONNA CICCONE I was looking in the back of The New York Times for ads for homes in New Hampshire, and there weren'...
CARL GABLE
I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They ... BEN BERNANKE (The line) got after them, that was a big thing for us. Vincent Simmons picked up some tough yards f...
DAN FAUSER He was the first one down there. I thought, He's going to fight me for this. So I figured I'd just g...
BRANDON LLOYD He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from...
JENNIFER WESTER I finished my workout, but stayed to watch the game. I sat near him. He looked over and asked me if ...
MIKE AVILES So I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?&#...
TIM VINE
On Phantom... I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away.... GERARD BUTLER When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col...
STACEY FARBER We had to shoot the Last Splash dance scene, and that was the song that was playing. So we probably ...
EMMA ROBERTS
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was... CHARLIZE THERON That was the only cutter I threw all game. It was a bad pitch, it floated up there, so I was frustra...
DAN HAREN We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three.
I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too... TANA FRENCH
There was nothing New York liked reading about more than itself. GARTH RISK HALLBERG I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the...
JORDANA BREWSTER
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for ... ELLEN BURSTYN I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Stree...
SAOIRSE RONAN I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day....
SAMMY SOSA The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso'...
ROBERT DUVALL It was my last option there. He was practically holding me down in the front, so I had to go behind ...
MATT POSKAY
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Tim... KEVIN BACON
The problem with a plan is that you fill up the blank page of a new day with a 'to-do' list b... JOHN C. PARKIN I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every ...
SAMMY SOSA It stressed me out just thinking about how I would have felt if Jon Zion had left while I was there....
JOHN OLVER
It seemed to me so much more sensible to make something up than go through the tedious business of i... E. L. DOCTOROW
I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd d... FRANK MCCOURT This coolant system, which is about the size of that table, ... Pulled it down through the ceiling �...
CONAN O'BRIEN I just saw it, I thought it was there and I just wanted to get in, ... I didn't want to spike the ba...
MATT LEINART They took a story that was going to be laugh lines for late-night comedians and turned it into a fro...
STEPHEN HESS One thing I did was stop thinking so much. I'm just going out there and swinging the bat.
JENNY DOBBERTIN
I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student Le... JOHN MELLENCAMP
I wanted to go [to Africa] because I read an article in the New York Times about education becoming ... DREW BARRYMORE I was at the University of Barcelona in Spain when the Spanish Civil War was starting in 1933 and th...
HENRY TORNELL I'm thinking about that afternoon you came to the empty restaurant, that day after the Alchemist. Yo...
CAROLYN CRANE
I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible... LADY GAGA I started acting when I was 13 in New York. Worked there for a couple years, then auditioned for a s...
KRISTANNA LOKEN
I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park Sout... J.D. SALINGER There was notification just before dusk that there was some concern. Our helicopters . . . fly dur...
JAN WOODFORD I called him to find out where he got the pamphlet and all he said was it was missing the label, ......
WILLIAM WATSON My sons picked up trash for 21/2 hours one day. The next day, there was so much trash, it looked lik...
ANDREA COOK
I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working o... MEG CABOT He was so well behaved back in the day. He was one of the few crew members we could count on. There ...
JEFF LABAR All of the sudden I see the phone ring. I stared at it for a minute. Should I answer it? I picked it...
MIKE SELLERS
I knew that the show was coming and they wanted me to have a co-host. And so I asked Mary Hart and s... REGIS PHILBIN The first profile piece on myself came about after my Rabbi sent information to the Jewish Chronicle...
BENJAMIN COHEN The idea came to me when I was doing a show and saw this girl sitting down front and she was wearing...
MARTI DODSON
I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON
When 'Twilight' hit the New York Times bestseller list at number 5, for me that was the pinn... STEPHENIE MEYER Aside from the physical sensation of hiking the Trail, it became a real intellectual adventure, too ...
IAN MARSHALL Caitlyn (telling a story of her friend): So. [She] grew up and left Neverland for the distant planet...
ZECHARIAH BARRETT It was a huge at-bat, because the game was pretty close. We had guys on first and second, so in my m...
BEN SAYLOR I thought '23' was kind of an odd number, ... I asked for 14, and Yosh totally turned me down and sa...
RYNE SANDBERG We were third-and-long, so I was thinking first down. That?s really all I was going for. But I was w...
JUSTIN BROUSE These houses were flooded up to about the second story, if they had a second story, so everything wa...
KEATON THOMAS When I went into the business, I sat down and figured that I was indeed one of fortune's children. J...
FRANK MAYER I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I eve...
MICHAEL WOLF I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.
THOMAS WATSON, JR. The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instea...
LESLEY GORE It's definitely special to win this race, especially for a lot of guys like me who knew Henry for so...
BYRON HO When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy,...
PIA TOSCANO I don't know how [Green] is blaming me because I was on the bumper of the car in front of me and jus...
DALE JARRETT I was all worried about not knowing anyone when I got up there. But there was nothing to worry about...
ANGELA LEWIS
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought t... ARTHUR GOLDEN My main focus was not to kill the bullpen. We've got a crucial stretch coming up with Anaheim and Ne...
JOE KENNEDY I remember sitting up there in Kentucky just thinking I was so frustrated and mad that I wanted to h...
CARL KRAUSER Well, I was born and raised in Rochester, New York.
ARTHUR ROCK For 'Avengers,' in the Albuquerque desert, we shot New York there. And I was standing on a p...
STELLAN SKARSGARD There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So...
NATHAN SAWAYA
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really ki...
LEWIS BLACK I had a son who wanted to play college basketball, so this is what we did. We made up a resume sheet...
DALE NEAL
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day... GROUCHO MARX From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I...
ANDRÉ MAUROIS
We all have our inner demons. 
I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... 
It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost a... 
Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that. 
You should run your life not by the calendar but how you feel, and what you're interests are and... 
Obama supporters pretended that his 2008 campaign was some sort of populist uprising even as Wall St... 
See, Red? When life hands you lemons, you know what you gotta do?”
All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free a... 
The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game. 
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgivenes... 
It is beyond dispute that President Obama and his aides have an extreme, even unprecedented obsessio... 
There are different ways that kids who are gay take on the rejection and alienation they feel. The w... 
What I'm trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and... 
There's something about a catharsis that is very important. 
We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by ... 