Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author
Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra (2008)
Misc.
Bill Bailey (1965) English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author
Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra (2008)
“This is a job and we want to have fun. But it's a job and we should look like we're going to work.”
LeBron James (1984) American basketball player
Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms
'All right. I'll grow one. I'll start now this minute. It's a good idea. It will give me something to do.'
Catherine and Henry discussing whether he should grow a beard, in Ch. 38
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Warren Zevon (1947–2003) American singer-songwriter
Answering the question "What led you to stake out the noir Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner genre?", in "My Lunch with Warren Zevon" by David Bowman,Salon.com (17 March 2000)
“The only love that feels like love is the doomed kind. (Fun fact.)”
Jenny Offill book Dept. of Speculation
Source: Dept. of Speculation
John Varley (1947) American science fiction author
"The Phantom of Kansas" (1976), The World Treasury of Science Fiction (ed. David Hartwell), p. 375
Sean Connery (1930) Scottish actor and producer
Interview in the Saturday Evening Post (June 6, 1964).
“Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's "just a job."”
Jack Welch (1935) American executive: General Electric CEO
Source: Jack: Straight from the Gut (2001), Ch. 24.