“I only choose to write about people who are alive, are extremely powerful and as such have influenced our lives. I try to go behind their constructed myths to find the humanity of the person. It takes me about four years on every book and requires hundreds of interviews so I choose people whose lives I respect and achievements are worth recording.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsPersonsBookHumanityPowerfulBehindsFourOur LivesAliveAchievementMythInterviewsTake MeFour Years Author:Kitty Kelley
“Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!” HoursFourGoldPoundsTake MeBack In The Day Author:Mr. T
“I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the Time Warp Trio novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.” WritingYearsLittlesTwoBookInspirationSchoolNovelFourTaughtTenTake MeSecondsFlashApartmentElementary SchoolWarpTrios Author:Jon Scieszka
“When I landed in L.A. in early '89, William Morris decided to take me on to see if I could get any jobs. I was cast in a TV movie called Protected Surf, and made $30,000 in four weeks, and I decided I needed to take acting seriously, because I had never made that much money in a year, much less four weeks. That's when I decided I thought I could make a career out of it.” IfsYearsMadeJobsActingCareersFourWeekTvsNeededDecidedCastsIf I CouldTake MeProtectedSurfMorris Author:Thomas Haden Church
“I was raised by drag queens, practically ... my mother died when I was four-years-old, so I was effectively raised by a bunch of different people. A lot of those people were friends of my sister, Kathleen, who had all these gay friends. She would baby-sit me everyday, and she would take me over to her friend's houses with all kinds of things going on: tucking, and eyebrow drawing, waxing, all sorts of things. I was literally raised by gay men.” PeopleMenYearsKindDifferentMotherHouseFourBabyGayDiedRaisedEverydayDrawingBunchAll KindsQueensTake MeMy SisterFour YearsDragDifferent PeoplesEyebrowsGay MenMother DiedDrag QueenGay FriendWaxing Author:Ellen Pompeo
“It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.” ImportantHoursBreakFourTake MeGroove Author:Grimes