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“For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.”
“I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'”
| Gracie Allen, Comedian (1895) |
| Blake Edwards, Director (1922) |
| Elliott Erwitt, Photographer (1928) |
| Paul Gallico, Writer (1897) |
| Susan George, Activist (1950) |
| Dorothy Hamill, Athlete (1956) |
| Joseph Jackson, Businessman (1929) |
| Mick Jagger, Musician (1943) |
| George Gallup, Businessman (1984) |
| W. Averell Harriman, Politician (1986) |