All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation.
| John Abercrombie, Musician (1944) |
| Donovan Bailey, Athlete (1967) |
| Edward E. Barnard, Scientist (1857) |
| Donald L. Carcieri, Politician (1942) |
| Elizabeth Carter, Poet (1717) |
| Morris Dees, Lawyer (1936) |
| Frank Deford, Writer (1938) |
| Susan Estrich, Journalist (1952) |
| Billy Gibbons, Musician (1949) |
| Jim Gibbons, Politician (1944) |
| Giovanni Agnelli, Designer (1945) |
| Paul Castellano, Criminal (1985) |
| Dan Fogelberg, Musician (2007) |
| William Gaddis, Novelist (1998) |
| John Gallagher, Businessman (1998) |

