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		When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabrielle Zevin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam McKay 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				A. Scott Berg 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abbi Jacobson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kaitlyn Dever 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Queen Latifah 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Kirn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irwin Shaw 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Chiang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edmonia Lewis 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam DeVine 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zoe Kravitz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sam Kean 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I studied communications, only because I could get my own show on the campus radio station. I never thought of it as a career. Music was always a really passionate hobby - it was like collecting DVDs or stamps. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kaskade 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I get asked to talk to a group of CEOs or a group of high school students, I pick high school students. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Pam Bondi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ed Asner 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		'School of Rock' was just once in a lifetime things; I want to be a doctor, actually. I'd go an do the sequel if they asked me to. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Caitlin Hale 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Kemp 
			 
			
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		Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Walter Smith 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency. … It's my job and my vice mixed together. You can't hope for better than that: having your job and your sin commingled. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Philip K. Dick 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sally Kellerman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adelaide Clemens 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Quentin S. Crisp 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Come prepared because you don't want to dilute the votes out there because you are uninformed and you're spoon-fed something that's inaccurate, or you don't even bother to equip yourself with the facts - anybody out there, this goes for everyone. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kimberly Guilfoyle 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabrielle Zevin