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“It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.”
“Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.”
| Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete (1947) |
| Edie Adams, Musician (1927) |
| Herbert Baxter Adams, Educator (1850) |
| Akon, Musician (1973) |
| Tom Allen, Politician (1945) |
| Ellen Barkin, Actress (1955) |
| Gina Carano, Actress (1982) |
| Peter Garrett, Musician (1953) |
| Lukas Haas, Actor (1976) |
| Lord Halifax, Politician (1881) |
| Fred Davis, Celebrity (1998) |
| Ralph Ellison, Author (1994) |
| Edna Ferber, Novelist (1968) |
| Yasunari Kawabata, Novelist (1972) |
| David Lean, Director (1991) |