Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail....

After ‘Somewhere’ came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they’d be like, ‘Oh, wow – are you Elle Fanning?’ Before ‘Somewhere,’ they asked me if I was...

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.

We are made out of stardust. The iron in the hemoglobin molecules in the blood in your right hand came from a star that blew up 8 billion years ago. The iron in your left...

I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first...

Once Playboy came to me, all the preachers ran. I needed to pose in Playboy to make money.

Alas, in 1929 came the Stock Market crash and everything changed and became worrisome. People started practicing conservatism because of financial losses, myself included.

I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got...

I came to the conclusion that I am not a fiction writer.

I know what it is like to be brought up with unconditional love. In my life that came from my grandmother.

I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

If there’s a God, and we have all this evidence that there’s evolution, but He created the world only 6,000 years ago – what is the best and most logical explanation to reconcile those two...

I watch a TV show called ‘Shark Tank.’ It’s one of my favorite TV shows. It’s basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing… I came up with the...

I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.

Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.

If an original piece of wardrobe came up from Star Wars, I’d probably spend a lot of money on it.

If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland.

In the case of ‘Blood Stone,’ the producers, EON, Michael Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Wilson and Gregg Wilson, had an idea for a story and had a lot of it done. And I came in,...

So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it’s a very...

But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it’s disrespectful. I didn’t come up with the Ankle Lock; Ken Shamrock came up with the Ankle Lock, but I waited...

My mum came from nothing and didn’t have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.

Throughout the ’50s, tons of unknown locals came through Sun to record their demos. Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and Jerry Lee Lewis all made their first recordings at the former Memphis Recording Service.

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.

Well, for the My Generation album, there was nothing to be nervous about in them days. We used to take every day as it came. Every day was just a gig and I think we...

We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.

I started young. My first record came out when I was – what? 18? So I was in the studio when I was 15, 16.

I was the leading star in 1945. I slowed down my pace of acting assignments after I came into direction.

Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.

I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed ‘The Birdcage’ came out to see me on stage when I did ‘Forum.’ It introduced me to a whole new audience that wasn’t familiar with...

When we came out with ‘Lazy Sunday,’ the greatest compliment I heard was that Questlove had it on his iPod.

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got...

When ‘Hung’ got canceled, I was available for pilot season, and ‘Arrow’ was the first thing I auditioned for. It wasn’t the first script that came to me, but it was my first audition.

The notion of ‘history from below’ hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.

‘South Park’ is so hilarious… I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and performance: ‘This is what I do, this is why I’m here.’ At solo...

I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who’d go nuts on the dance floor,...

‘Batman’ took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time before my English accent came out again. I was actually having to try for it.

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.

I never really wanted to be a model. But when the opportunity came, I grabbed it.

I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the ‘Chicago Tribune’ from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane...

It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a...

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed – even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.

I should be the one to say what I do. It’s just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can’t do it the other way. That’s how our record label came about.