“I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.”
“I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.”
| Moustapha Akkad, Director (1909) |
| Mukesh Ambani, Businessman (1957) |
| Fisher Ames, Statesman (1758) |
| Saskia De Brauw, Artist (1981) |
| Stanley Fish, Writer (1938) |
| Margaret Haddix, Author (1964) |
| Konrad Adenauer, Statesman (1967) |
| Jim Cantalupo, Businessman (2004) |
| Charles Darwin, Scientist (1882) |