My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
Pat Conroy
Recitation: by Male by Female
I think that, certainly, most of my operatic roles are in German. I think it happened because, of course, I was lucky in that I was invited to sing, first of all, my operatic debut in Berlin at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, which was West Berlin at the time.
Jessye Norman
TimeThinkLuckyFirstWestSing
What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better.
Matthew Vaughn
BetterYouThreeFirstRightTwo
You see a script, and you say, 'Oh, I can play the heck out of that,' talk to your agent, and he says they don't want to see you. That's heartbreaking.
Rita Moreno
YouI CanPlaySayWantTalk
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.
Ron Eglash
ArchitectureWrongMoreOutUp
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
Mike Myers
FunnyFatherSillyInspirationGuy
I think it is fair to say that it is under a great deal of stress, and if I am asking for significant changes, it is because the world is going through significant changes.
Mohamed ElBaradei
GreatStressI AmWorldThinkSay
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa.
Donald Johanson
WorkBackEarlyAfricaAncestors
I loved Lil Wayne growing up; he was like the king when I was growing up. I remember 'Fireman.' That was one of my favorite songs.
Chris Harris, Jr.
KingGrowing UpLovedRememberUp
I helped start a ceramics company called CPS Technologies. We took it public in 1987 at $12 a share. Three months later, there was this horrible cliff: Black Monday. Fidelity had bought 15 percent of our stock, and their algorithm caused them to dump it all onto the market that day. We dropped from $12 to $2.
Clayton M. Christensen
DayMondayStartBlackThreeCliff
My favorite book growing up was 'The Little Prince.'
Antoni Porowski
Growing UpBookGrowingUpLittle
I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.
Anthony Foxx
GoodChallengesChoicesOpportunities
As a kid, I'd watch MTV and think how great it would be to have my own music videos on those shows. Now I turn on MTV and, along the bottom of the screen, it often reads, 'Coming next... Pixie Lott.' That's so strange that I can't even begin to make sense of it.
Pixie Lott
MusicGreatThinkStrangeMy Own
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