“I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.”
Interview with Laura Yorke. Reader's Digest. July 2006
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The man of letters, p. 207-208 ; as cited in: Philippe Billé. Remarks about Albert Caraco http://www.thephora.net/forum/showthread.php?t=50584. at thephora.net, 05-26-2009
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My Turn (1989)
Context: In 1981, when Ronnie and I moved to Washington, I never dreamed that our eight years there would be a time of so much emotion. But life in the White House is magnified: The highs were higher than I expected, and the lows were much lower.
While I loved being first lady, my eight years with that title were the most difficult years of my life. Both of my parents died while Ronnie was president, and my husband and I were both operated on for cancer. Before we had even settled in, Ronnie was shot and almost killed. Then there was the pressure of living under the intense scrutiny of the media, and the frustration of frequently being misunderstood. Everything I did or said seemed to generate controversy, and it often seemed that you couldn’t open a newspaper without seeing a story about me — my husband and me, my children and me, Donald Regan and me, and so on.
I don’t think I was as bad, or as extreme in my power or my weakness, as I was depicted — especially during the first year, when people thought I was overly concerned with trivialities, and the final year, when some of the same people were convinced I was running the show.
In many ways, I think I served as a lightning rod; and in any case, I came to realize that while Ronald Reagan was an extremely popular president, some people didn’t like his wife very much. Something about me, or the image people had of me, just seemed to rub them the wrong way.
“I look back on my years as a Wall Street lawyer as time spent in a foreign country.”
"The quiet strength of the introvert," The Chicago Tribune, February 20, 2012.
Quoted by NPR http://www.npr.org/2016/10/28/499796182/british-comedian-tracey-ullman-brings-celebrity-impersonations-to-hbo in 2016, on what what drives her to do impersonations
Personal correspondence, quoted in Stephen Jay Gould, "Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!", Dinosaur in a Haystack (Harmony, 1995), p. 245
“All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.”
Letter (9 April 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
CNN Interview (April 1998), reported in Kara Fox, " 1998: George Michael comes out in CNN interview http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/entertainment/george-michael-cnn-interview-1998/index.html", CNN (December 26, 2016).
“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”
Source: The Lovely Bones