A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
| James F. Amos, Soldier (1946) |
| Roland Barthes, Critic (1915) |
| Richard Baxter, Clergyman (1615) |
| Michael Ende, Writer (1929) |
| Ernie Fletcher, Politician (1952) |
| Kathleen Hanna, Musician (1969) |
| Tonya Harding, Athlete (1970) |
| Anne Hathaway, Actress (1982) |
| Dolores Ibarruri, Politician (1895) |
| Grace Kelly, Actress (1929) |
| Joseph Cannon, Politician (1926) |
| Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist (1865) |
| Umberto Giordano, Composer (1948) |
| James Laughlin, Poet (1997) |

