“Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly.”
“An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it.”
| Yukiya Amano, Public Servant (1947) |
| J. M. Barrie, Novelist (1860) |
| James M. Barrie, Playwright (1860) |
| Gregory Bateson, Scientist (1904) |
| Vince Cable, Politician (1943) |
| Howard Carter, Scientist (1874) |
| Rosario Dawson, Actress (1979) |
| Manfred Eigen, Scientist (1927) |
| Albert Finney, Actor (1936) |
| Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher (1883) |
| Nelson Algren, Novelist (1981) |
| Dan Devine, Coach (2002) |
| Brenda Fassie, Musician (2004) |
| Paul Gauguin, Artist (1903) |
| Mary Johnston, Novelist (1936) |
| Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman (2004) |
| Alan King, Comedian (2004) |