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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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I’m very committed to and interested in CNN’s journalism and our magazines and our movie studio, not just HBO, where I grew up. But I do have a fondness for subscription television.

– Jeffrey Bewkes

How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

– Lev Grossman

I grew up in Wahpeton, N.D., and I didn’t leave until I was 18, and I’ve kept going back.

– Louise Erdrich

A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.

– Juan Goytisolo

I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens… not realizing it was influencing me as much as it was.

– Lionel Richie

I grew up in the ’90s, and I loved Nirvana.

– Josh Trank

If there was ever someone to look up to, it’s Tom Hanks.

– John Krasinski

I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.

– Karin Slaughter

I grew up in a house with very few books.

– Ken Livingstone

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

– John Fahey

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

– Liev Schreiber

When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

– Keeley Hawes

I would not encourage everyone to take up this profession. Not everyone is suited for any particular field.

– John Cameron

I hadn’t grown up with ‘The Hobbit;’ I hadn’t grown up with ‘Lord of The Rings,’ anything like that.

– Martin Freeman

I grew up being a bit of a tomboy, a big-time tomboy.

– Katheryn Winnick

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody’s business.

– Kenny Chesney

I grew up on a dirt road with brothers.

– Josh Holloway

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

– Muhammad Ali

I was signed at 18 and had to grow up quickly.

– Rita Ora

Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity.

– Ron Fournier

I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up.

– Octavia Spencer

Friends take up time, and I didn’t have time.

– Richard Pryor

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

– Satchel Paige

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

– Ronald Lauder

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother’s books.

– Rabih Alameddine

I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.

– Ryan Reynolds

I grew up Mormon. I wasn’t really Mormon, my parents were.

– Ryan Gosling

I stood up for what I believed in starting businesses.

– Rick Scott

I’ve screwed up and I’ve overcommitted and it’s typical of me.

– Robert Metcalfe

We’re playing the Superbowl this year, we’re opening up before the coins drop.

– Peter Criss

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