“I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.”
“I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.”
| Robert A. Dahl, Writer (1915) |
| Humphry Davy, Scientist (1778) |
| Peter Farrelly, Director (1956) |
| Penelope Fitzgerald, Poet (1916) |
| William Floyd, Politician (1734) |
| Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Author (1796) |
| Rian Johnson, Writer (1973) |
| Milla Jovovich, Model (1975) |
| Mackenzie King, Statesman (1874) |
| Thomas Starr King, Clergyman (1824) |
| Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Scientist (1917) |
| Sammy Baugh, Athlete (2008) |
| Alphonse Daudet, Novelist (1897) |
| Don Ellis, Musician (1978) |
| Kaspar Hauser, Celebrity (1833) |
| Lord Kelvin, Scientist (1907) |