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“But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK? People believed that creativity was this divine attendant spirit that came to human beings from some distant and unknowable source, for distant and unknowable reasons.”
“My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.”
| James F. Amos, Soldier (1946) |
| Roland Barthes, Critic (1915) |
| Richard Baxter, Clergyman (1615) |
| Michael Ende, Writer (1929) |
| Ernie Fletcher, Politician (1952) |
| Kathleen Hanna, Musician (1969) |
| Tonya Harding, Athlete (1970) |
| Anne Hathaway, Actress (1982) |
| Dolores Ibarruri, Politician (1895) |
| Grace Kelly, Actress (1929) |
| Joseph Cannon, Politician (1926) |
| Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist (1865) |
| Umberto Giordano, Composer (1948) |
| James Laughlin, Poet (1997) |