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" I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill. "
Allen Ginsberg
Birthday
I Am
Year
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" The thrill of performing - that's something that hasn't changed for me. That simultaneous joy of creating something and sharing it with an audience - it's the same now as it was then, when it was just my cousins' birthday party. "
Steve Buscemi
Me
Joy
Sharing
" Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again. "
Liane Moriarty
Family
Birthday
Character
" The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new. "
Catherine Bell
Face
Play
Cake
" Did you know you're supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice? "
Faith Salie
Long
Birthday
Happy
" For my 16th birthday, my family took me to L'Auberge de L'Ill, which was family-run but had three Michelin stars. It was a revelation. After that meal, I realised this is what I want to do. "
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Stars
Birthday
Family
" For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted. "
Kaui Hart Hemmings
Asked
Birthday
Adopted
" I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story. "
Sarah Wright
Birthday
People
Old
" I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear. "
Mike Nichols
Birthday
Dress
Happy
" Don't just count your years, make your years count. "
George Meredith
Make
Just
Years
" Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops. "
Sloane Crosley
Reading
Birthday
Time
" When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn. "
Aidan Gillen
Falcon
Bad
Time
" My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. "
Guy Johnson
Birthday
Said
Poetry
" For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story. "
Gene Siskel
Story
Birthday
Night
" I left school on my 15th birthday. "
David Bailey
" The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book. "
James Rollins
Day
Book
Time
" Nobody is going to pretend that I am younger than I am. Apart from anything else, it is in the papers all the damn time - every time I have a birthday. "
Laurence Olivier
I Am
Damn
Birthday
" I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day. "
Aimee Bender
Cake
Birthday
Happy
" You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness. "
Brad Garrett
Happiness
Gift
Birthday
" It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. "
Joni Mitchell
Innovation
Born
Stars
" I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was far too young to have developed a great deal of political awareness. I remember it, though - my mother excited at the dinner table because Britain had its first female prime minister. "
Sara Sheridan
Relationship
Birthday
Mother
" I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists. "
Noel Wells
Good
People
Effort
" Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. "
Douglas Coupland
Free
Time
Too Much
" We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date. "
Beyonce Knowles
Wedding
Me
Birthday
" Robert Duvall saw me playing at a restaurant in Louisiana and invited me to be an extra in his movie 'The Apostle.' He gave me a guitar for my sixth birthday, and I thought that was the coolest thing in the world. "
Hunter Hayes
Birthday
He
Thought
" I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory. "
Sloane Crosley
Birthday
Summer
Memory
" Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish. "
Akhil Sharma
Lose
Birthday
Writing
" New Year's Day is every man's birthday. "
Charles Lamb
New Year's
Day
Birthday
" I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother. "
Sheridan Smith
Memory
Wings
Birthday
" I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face. "
Stephen Hopkins
People
Face
Night
" I've never hosted a party in my life, not even my own birthday party. I'd feel really uncomfortable saying, 'Hey everybody, let's celebrate me!' But I'm not antisocial. I don't hate people. "
Alessia Cara
People
Hate
Life