My enthusiasm for L.A. stems from my father, who was a lecturer in American literature at the University of Birmingham. Through his work, our family did several house swaps with L.A. families. It was a dreadfully daring thing to do in the early 1980s; there was no Internet, so you had no idea of what you were getting into. Ben Miller Read Quote
I got ‘Smooth’ when I was growing up. I got ‘Bigshot’ playing in Detroit. People who know me from Denver call me ‘Smooth.’ Chauncey Billups Read Quote
There are a lot of myths about fat loss, and I wanted to explain how to do it properly, without obsessing over silly fads. Chloe Madeley Read Quote
I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you’re interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may – and from my experience probably will – protest your portrait of them. Rosemary Mahoney Read Quote
The principles of fairness and equality for working men and women are deeply interwoven within the fabric of our nation’s history. Bob Menendez Read Quote
I’d like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person. Bela Lugosi Read Quote
It’s even easier to write about the past now that I’m happy and have better stuff to write about. That’s why someone like Bob Dylan can make so many records over so long a time; it’s not like he’s been sad all this time. He’s really successful! Frankie Cosmos Read Quote
I had one of those families that let me watch things they should not have let me watch. When I was a kid, I remember I watched ‘Alien’ at, like, 6. It was traumatizing. Drew Goddard Read Quote
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed. Robert Gottlieb Read Quote
