“Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.”
“Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.”
| Italo Calvino, Journalist (1923) |
| Jane Darwell, Actress (1879) |
| Paige Davis, Actress (1969) |
| Sarah Ferguson, (1959) |
| John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist (1908) |
| Lee Iacocca, Businessman (1924) |
| Tito Jackson, Musician (1953) |
| Abdul Kalam, Statesman (1931) |
| Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity (1959) |
| Linda Lavin, Actress (1937) |
| Vincent Canby, Critic (2000) |
| Mata Hari, Dancer (1917) |
| Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Coach (1852) |
| Randall Jarrell, Poet (1965) |
| Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Poet (1838) |
| Pierre Laval, Politician (1945) |