“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.”
Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef
“Until I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.”
Julia Child (1921–2004) American chef
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Variant: The end of the world started when a Pegasus landed on the hood of my car.
Source: The Last Olympian
Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer
Phlogiston interview (1995)
Context: Well, I decided that as a teenager that I really didn't know enough to describe character well and I was wasting my time. I'd learned as much as I could about story telling techniques and it wasn't a matter of technique any more. It was a matter of substance. As a result I said I was going to wait until I was a lot older and had more experience. So it was that after I got out of college I'd been away from SF for about four years. I'd read SF steadily from when I was eleven until I started college. When I started college I said, "I'm not going to read that while I'm here, I'm going to learn poetry and other things of that sort" in fact I wrote a lot of poetry then.
“In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees”
Philip Roth book The Ghost Writer
Source: The Ghost Writer
Frances McDormand (1957) American actress
On the forms of social activism evident in the film industry's awards shows, in her 90th Oscars backstage interview (4 March 2018)
Context: I don't show up all the time. I only show up when I can and when I want to, but I was there at the Golden Globes and it's almost like there was an arc that started there. It doesn't end here. But I think publicly — as a commercial (because that's what we are, this is not a — this is not — this is not a novel — this is a TV show after all) — but I think that the message that we're getting to send to the public is that we're going to be one of the small industries that try to make a difference.
Edmund White (1940) American novelist and LGBT essayist
Self-interview, Dalkey Archive Press http://www.centerforbookculture.org/interviews/interview_ewhite.html (1994) <br class="br">Articles and Interviews
“And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Elvis Presley (1935–1977) American singer and actor
Pop Chronicles, Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. Part 1 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19754/m1/; C. Robert Jennings, " Elvis Lives! http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/doc/155809300.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Feb+18%2C+1968&author=Jennings%2C+C+Robert&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%281923-Current+File%29&edition=&startpage=M28&desc=ELVIS+LIVES%21", 1968-Feb-18, L.A. Times Magazine, p. M28. <br class="br">Context: It just happened. I like to sing, and well, I just started singing and folks just started listening. I can't tell folks that I worked and learned and studied, and overcame disappointments, because I didn't.