A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father’s side, and it’s sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations… four or maybe five generations. – Gina McKee
There were probably a few games I played where I should not have played, because of some nagging injuries or something. I used to always talk the managers into playing me, because I wanted to play so badly. – Gary Carter
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. – Galina Vishnevskaya
I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn’t them versus Celtic – it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on. – Gordon Strachan
It changed me more than anything else. You don’t want to get to that place where you’re the adult and you’re palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that. – Gwyneth Paltrow
When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart. – Guy Fieri
I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I’ve always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability. – Harry Caray
I’m asked so many times why I think there aren’t more female instrumentalists in jazz. But I never think about it. And I don’t think it’s been any harder for me to be taken seriously. The music speaks for itself. – Hiromi Uehara
My eyes don’t work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze. – Henry Grunwald
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished. – Haruki Murakami
I never expected any sort of success with ‘Mockingbird’… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. – Harper Lee
I will never forget the moment when I was liberated by the American Army. I will never forget those very young boys coming up the hill, who had to take me a prisoner to liberate me. – Heinrich Boll
If you were to say to me that I couldn’t paint, I would write. If I couldn’t write, I would be a set designer. As long as I’m creating something, I’m happy. – Grace Slick
For me, it’s just a pleasure to be out in the community wearing my Ducks logo on shirts and hats and so forth in representing the team. – Henry Samueli
I think a lot of people think I’m doing kind of a character onstage, but what you’re really getting is just me. – Harland Williams
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. – George Woodcock
Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people – ‘fear’ for me stands for ‘false evidence appearing real.’ We create fantasy, and in certain ways that’s wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn’t real. – Hill Harper
My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it’s the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things. – Hannah Simone
I think what hurt me all along was the label of ‘war-time pitcher.’ I’ve always resented that. – Hal Newhouser
People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I’m not doing: The grass is always greener. – Helen Mirren
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer… in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. – Hunter S. Thompson
My parents were huge fans of westerns, European cinema, and horror in particular. They wouldn’t just show me kids’ films. – Hideo Kojima