Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
On pleading guilty to having sex with minors and possession of child pornography, as quoted in "Jared Fogle, ex-Subway spokesman, sentenced to 15 years in prison" http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jared-fogle-subway-1.3326594?cmp=rss by Rick Callahan in CBC News report. (19 November 2015)
Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults
Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?
Paul Scofield (1922–2008) English actor
Quoted in Benedict Nightingale, "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86" http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/movies/21scofield.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin, The New York Times (2008-03-21)
Roza Otunbayeva (1950) Soviet diplomat
"The Situation Is Not Easy" by Lally Weymouth in Newsweek (26 April 2010)
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Jellicoe Road
“I wanted to be free. I wanted to express desires on my own, to shape my own little life.”
Alexandra Kollontai (1872–1952) Soviet diplomat
The Autobiography of a Sexually Emancipated Communist Woman (1926)
“I don't want you to be interested in my life. I want you to be interested in me.”
Nicci French book Killing Me Softly
Source: Killing Me Softly
Homi J. Bhabha (1909–1966) 1909-1966, Indian nuclear physicist
As quoted in the "Homi Jehangir Bhabha" profile at the Vigyan Prasar Science Portal http://www.vigyanprasar.gov.in/scientists/bhabha/BHABHANEW.HTM <br class="br">Context: I know quite clearly what I want out of my life. Life and my emotions are the only things I am conscious of. I love the consciousness of life and I want as much of it as I can get. But the span of one's life is limited. What comes after death no one knows. Nor do I care. Since, therefore, I cannot increase the content of life by increasing its duration, I will increase it by increasing its intensity. Art, music, poetry and everything else … I do have this one purpose — increasing the intensity of my consciousness of life.
“I want to make a poem of my life.”
Yukio Mishima (1925–1970) Japanese author
As quoted by Mishima's biographer, Henry Scott-Stokes in the documentary Yukio Mishima : Samurai Writer (1985)
“I wanted my own computer my whole life.”
Steve Wozniak (1950) American inventor, computer engineer and programmer
Bloomberg Business interview (2014)