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" I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house. "

Sue Townsend

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" God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. "

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" I left school on my 15th birthday. "

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" I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I handed him the cassette of 'Eight Arms to Hold You,' which I had just got an advance of that day. He very graciously thanked me and tucked it into his jacket pocket. "

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" There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. "

" I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times! "

" I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party. "

" My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily. "

Sarah Koenig

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" As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing. "

Mike Wallace

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" The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday. "

Tammy Blanchard

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" Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party. "

" I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house. "

" I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times. "

Lily James

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" The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. "

" Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic. "

" For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done! "

" It takes a long time to become young. "

" I do think that books, good books, free you. They make you feel a citizen of the world and things like class, sex and age don't matter. They're the greatest leveler. "

" When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce. "

" I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. "

" This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security. "

Art Buchwald

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" I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love - it's a Coca-Cola cake. "

" For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it! "

" I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children. "

Diane von Furstenberg

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" I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears. "

" I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' "

" I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. By ten I was playing competitively. "

" When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts. "