I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.
Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.
Amos Bronson Alcott, Educator (1799) |
Louisa May Alcott, Novelist (1832) |
John D. Barrow, Scientist (1952) |
Brian Baumgartner, Actor (1972) |
Kim Delaney, Actress (1961) |
Taisen Deshimaru, Philosopher (1914) |
Rahm Emanuel, Politician (1959) |
Harry Essex, Writer (1910) |
Anna Faris, Actress (1976) |
John Ambrose Fleming, Inventor (1849) |
William Cartwright, Dramatist (1643) |
Dorothy Day, Activist (1980) |
Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman (1991) |
Dan Flavin, Sculptor (1996) |
George Harrison, Musician (2001) |
Thomas Hewitt Key, Writer (1875) |