“I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.”
“We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.”
| Barbara Amiel, Journalist (1940) |
| Albert Bandura, Psychologist (1925) |
| Tyra Banks, Model (1973) |
| Thomas Carlyle, Philosopher (1795) |
| Edith Cavell, Public Servant (1865) |
| Wally George, Celebrity (1931) |
| Gary Gilmore, Criminal (1940) |
| Wassily Kandinsky, Artist (1866) |
| Charles Keating, Lawyer (1923) |
| William Labov, Writer (1927) |
| Maurice Barres, Politician (1923) |
| John Gay, Poet (1732) |
| Robert Hamer, Director (1963) |
| Fred Hampton, Activist (1969) |
| Omar Khayyam, Poet (1131) |
| Bert Lahr, Actor (1967) |