“If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they've experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.” IfsYearsHas BeensAsksBoysCoupleMarriedBeachBeach Boys Author:Mike Love
“One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.” PeopleDoeHappensRunningFoundBoysRolesCoupleSensitiveConfrontingWorking Life Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“I go into Daunt Books in Marylebone every couple of weeks. My wife Sara demolishes books, but I only buy stuff occasionally. I like boys' things, spies and the Cold War.” BookWarStuffBoysWifeWeekColdCoupleMy WifeCold WarSpyLike A BoyDemolish Author:Noel Gallagher
“[I]n 1938, Superman appeared. He had been mailed to the offices of National Periodical Publications from Cleveland, by a couple of Jewish boys who had imbued him with the powers of a hundred men, of a distant world, and of the full measure of their bespectacled adolescent hopefulness and desperation.” MenWorldBoysCoupleOfficeHundredDesperationPublicationClevelandHopefulness Author:Michael Chabon
“The neighborhood children, of course, were forbidden by their parents to play with my little boy, Garth, so I finally got him a little kitten to play with. A couple of weeks later we found it on the porch with its neck wrung.” ChildrenLittlesPlayCoursesFoundParentBoysWeekAtheismCouplePositive AtheismNecksNeighborhoodForbiddenLittle BoysKittenPorch Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so it was an imaginative surprise from my Disney family to pull me out of the hat, as it were in Cinderella.” DoneWholeBoysCoupleSurpriseHatsImaginative Author:Kenneth Branagh
“The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.” IfsThinkingFirstsChildrenAgeGirlSidesTermMistakeClassBoysTeacherTroubleGroupsWeekTaughtCoupleSittingInfiniteIndividualityI RealizedChiefsRangeBossSitting DownOther Girl Author:Philip Pullman
“I went through voice coaching. I was absolutely terrified. I thought my knees were going to buckle, and the first couple of takes I sounded like a pubescent boy. I didn't realise I was going to have to do it live.” FirstsVoiceBoysCoupleKneesCoachingRealisingTerrifiedBuckles Author:Keira Knightley
“As you'll never hear the thing again, my boy, why not throw in a couple of brass bands?” BoysCoupleBandWhy NotBrassMy BoysBrass Bands Author:Thomas Beecham
“I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.” WritingYearsKindLongTwoStoriesFightingFoundDarkLossSimpleBoysRegretCoupleComputerPagesSittingBetrayalTalesSatShort StoryNostalgicKites Author:Khaled Hosseini