“When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.” PeopleYearsLongMadeHairMy FriendsDistinctionFifteenFifteen YearsLong HairShort HairFifteen Years Old Author:Moby
“Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.” PeopleThinkingYearsFilmSleepPoorRoomsCompanyCarMy FriendsProductionsEightLondonHotelFestivalsHotel RoomsFilm FestivalsCannesCannes Film Festival Author:Jeremy Irvine
“The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.” YearsLittlesMotherCuttingTypeComputerStandardsPicksMy FriendsCamerasMagazinesShootingPrintPunkLensesMockParagraphManualsCanonSkateboardingMacintoshLayoutFontsXeroxZines Author:Jeff Vespa
“I was staying at my friend's house and he told me about the drug Prednisone. It took me 14 years to discover it. And there are a lot of times that would have helped me out over the years. I can't believe I'd never even heard of it, though.” YearsBelieveI CanHouseHeardDrugMy FriendsStayingOver It Author:Hamilton Leithauser
“I think it's kind of awkward when everyone knows you're gay but you don't say it. I had been thinking about coming out for almost a year before I did. I thought about it seriously on the plane ride home from the World Cup, while I was casually talking to my friend Lori Lindsey. She said, "Dude, you should just come out." She was right. Everyone in my life already knew. If you want to stand up and fight for equal rights but then won't even stand up for yourself and say "I'm gay" - that just started to feel weird.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldWantFeelsShouldYearsKindSaidHomeFightingTalkingRightsGayEqualMy FriendsCupsPlanesComing OutAwkwardEqual RightsWorld CupStand Up For YourselfPlane Rides Author:Megan Rapinoe
“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.” KnowsYearsI CanIdeasEndsHappensWantedPurposeLostInterestLosesHappenedChangedMy FriendsDown AndCamerasPhotographQuittingInnocentRepeatsPurityRealism Author:Larry Clark
“Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.” KnowsFeelsYearsLittlesLeftRoomsBehindsMy FriendsNotesResolveFamily And FriendsLeft Behind Author:Wendy Wasserstein
“The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.” PeopleYearsTwoHomeNightLeftWalksShotsMy FriendsBallsTwentiesCleanBarsDrunkDrankCouchesBucketsTwenty Two Author:Jon Stewart
“When I was younger, I was always running into other girls involved in music. When I was about 14 or 15, one of my friend's dads was an Elvis impersonator and asked us to sing backups at a rehearsal. I did well and was hired. Did that for about two years.” YearsWellsTwoRunningGirlDadInvolvedMy FriendsTwo YearsRehearsalOther GirlBackupAlways RunningImpersonators Author:Brandi Carlile
“I have been singing since I was two years old, my parents tell me, and started to write songs when I was fifteen. Eventually, my friends and my parents knew that this was something I liked to do. They also knew I had a dream of making my own album. They have always been encouraging me to do something about it, and so I did. So I went to a local radio station in Tromsø, and there I got to record a couple of songs.” WritingYearsHas BeensTwoDreamSongParentMy OwnRecordsCoupleSingingMy FriendsRadioAlbumsLocalsTwo YearsStationsFifteenI Had A DreamRadio StationsTwo Year Olds Author:Lene Marlin
“Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.” YearsBeautifulTalkingWatchesBreakMy FriendsYears AgoTeaCricketClashVery Cool Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.” PeopleThinkingYearsWould BeSchoolGuySawsFiguresStudentsAuthorityNewsGunMy FriendsKillingScaredEveningProtestCopSixteenFiringWashington DcAuthority FiguresSixteen Year Olds Author:Gus Van Sant
“A lot of sad things have happened to my friends' children, people you knew as babies. They've been killed or become crazy or all kinds of tragic things. There are some people whose children haven't talked to them in fifteen years. There's all kind of meshugaas in this world.” PeopleWorldYearsKindChildrenHappenedCrazyHavensThis WorldBabyMy FriendsAll KindsTragicFifteenFifteen YearsSad Things Author:Grace Paley
“I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.” YearsKidsStuffCoupleBandMy FriendsPunk Author:Venetian Snares
“Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.” YearsHas BeensMy FriendsMentorReverends Author:Barack Obama
“I did tons of theater in school, and then when I was 16 and got my driver's license, I started driving to Los Angeles, along with my friend Eric Stoltz, who was a year ahead of me and was doing the same thing. So we had the same manager, and we started auditioning for things and doing commercials when we were 16.” YearsSchoolMy FriendsTheaterDrivingManagersLos AngelesDriversLicenseEric Author:Anthony Edwards
“Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.” MenYearsCountryDoneAmericaYoungInterestCan DoLinesPowerfulPartyRecordsGroupsWillingMy FriendsToughDemocraticSignificantGreat ThingsOur CountryYoung ManSubstitutesSenateGiftedSenatorsDemocratic PartyTough TimesEloquenceEloquentInterest Groups Author:Joe Lieberman
“Think of the great spirits of the last 50 years: Ghandi killed, not by a Pakistani Muslim, but one of his own Hindus, who hated him because he wanted India for the Muslims, the Sikhs, for everybody; Sadat, killed by the organization that Mr. bin Laden's No. 2 heads now, not by an Israeli, but by an Egyptian. My friend Yitzhak Rabin -- after a lifetime defending Israel, killed -- not by a Palestinian terrorist, but an angry Israeli because he wanted to lay down arms and take up peace... Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.” PeopleThinkingYearsWantedLastsSpiritHumanityArmsMy FriendsHatredOrganizationIndiaAngryLaysLifetimeIsraelTerroristDefinedHatedPalestinianIsraeliFanaticsBin LadenEgyptianGreat SpiritSadat Author:William J. Clinton
“I'd done two years' worth of extra work, and all my friends who I would go on auditions with went to school for acting. These were kids who knew when they were 14 years old that this was what they wanted to do with their lives, and they prepared for it, and they're getting canned at every audition.” YearsTwoDoneKidsWantedSchoolActingGoes OnMy FriendsPreparedExtrasTwo YearsAuditionsExtra Work Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“There is no need for historical research. The war didn't take place a thousand years ago. Over a million Iranians served at one time or another in the war fronts and most of them are living ordinary lives today and are available for interviews. These stories are largely unknown in Iran and when I tell them to my friends or students they usually laugh.” NeedsYearsWarStoriesTodayMillionsLaughingFrontsStudentsThousandResearchOrdinaryMy FriendsYears AgoHistoricalAvailableInterviewsIranOne TimeThousand YearsLive For TodayOrdinary LifeHistorical Research Author:Mohammad Marandi
“I love the Bahamas, and I used to go there all the time with my friend who passed away, Henry. And I love it there, especially that island [Grand Exuma], so I've been there a lot over the twenty years.” YearsUsedMy FriendsTwentiesIslandsPassed AwayBahamas Author:Pam Houston
“My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.” IfsKnowsYearsArtPlaySchoolGrowing UpGrowingImagineMomMetsTenHigh SchoolMy FriendsMy MomEightQuittingPianoGentlemanClassical MusicViolinSubmergedUncool Author:Sean Mackin
“Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.” WritingYearsTogetherUsedWaterEmotionalMy FriendsInspiredMusicalTragic Author:Antony Hegarty
“There are producers that have been my friends for many years that I'm still a big fan of, from Boyz Noize to solo acts. Justice. It really varies. All the way to like...sometimes I'll just find some dude out of Chicago that makes a great house song. I'm feeling a lot of the deep house stuff, Jamie Jones.” WayYearsHas BeensStillsSometimesFeelingsBigsSongHouseStuffJusticeFansMy FriendsProducersChicagoSoloVaryJamie Author:A-Trak
“I was pretty young. I guess I was in high school, so I was probably 13 years old. It was crazy. I remember it very vividly. I remember - it was actually kind of horrifying, because one of my friends - we smoked out of a bong, and one of my friends - this was so stupid - he didn't want to bring - it was after school on a Friday, and he didn't - we smoked weed in this park called the Ravine that was across the street from my high school.” WantYearsKindSchoolRememberYoungCrazyStreetsStupidHigh SchoolMy FriendsParksWeedFridayAfter SchoolBongs Author:Seth Rogen
“I was probably not the first to lose my virginity among my friends. I was definitely one of the last ones to reach puberty - I didn't grow until the last couple years of high school.” YearsFirstsSchoolLastsGrowsLosesCoupleHigh SchoolMy FriendsVirginityPuberty Author:Simon Baker
“The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was in a retirement home and that she had had a friend for 40 years that was a Japanese gardener. This person had been very important in my friend's upbringing.” YearsPersonsSaidImportantBookIdeasHomeMotherTalkingStreetsNew YorkLoversWalkingConversationMy FriendsRetirementGardenerUpbringingRetirement Homes Author:Isabel Allende
“I liked seventeen-year-old me, I was happy when I was seventeen. I was this troubled goth kid that wore eyeliner and make-up to school and listened to punk-rock music and I loved my friends and I started to make music - I like seventeen-year-old me.” YearsKidsSchoolRocksMy FriendsPunkRock MusicPunk RockSeventeenGothEyelinerSeventeen Years Old Author:Mark Hoppus
“Whenever folks say radical Christianity is "a phase" of youth, I tell them they need to meet our 80-year-old nun or my friend Tony Campolo.” NeedsYearsChristianityYouthMy FriendsFolksRadicalPhasesNun Author:Shane Claiborne
“Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.” YearsLooksSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolMy FriendsUniversitySeniorSenior Year Author:Jillian Hervey
“My coaches are always my friends. I've always had a coach a year of my life and they're really important part of being a better human for me.” YearsHumansImportantMy FriendsCoaches Author:Gigi Hadid
“I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds.” WritingYearsStuffWatchesMy FriendsExcitingBars Author:Molly Shannon
“I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book collection filled with Silver Age books from his youth...early Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.” MenYearsBookAgeActionNamesFourSeeingGenerationsYouthDadPicksMy FriendsFilledMy DadLocalsComicFantasticTitlesCollectionsShopsSilverKillersComic BookSaturdaySpidersDetectivesMy GenerationSpider ManOld BooksFantastic Four Author:Alan Robert
“For me, Corsica is a place that I visited with my friends, maybe five or six times over the years, and I'm so happy there that I wanted to make a painting about it almost just to share with my friends, but it's so difficult when all your feelings are one way, and they're very sort of happy and pleasant. It's impossible to make a painting about it.” WayYearsFeelingsWantedDifficultFiveImpossibleSharePaintingSixMy FriendsOne WayPleasant Author:Nate Lowman
“I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.” YearsHomeHalfMy FriendsChairsRetiredCemeteryRocking Chairs Author:Red Adair
“I think that people all grow up and have their same personalities, but you can say, "Oh, I can see the roots of this personality, which I didn't like, but then you grew up, and I can still see you as that person, but I do really like you now." Which is sort of how I feel about children - I mean, about children who I knew when I was a child and grew up with, and they're still my friends, and children that I know as children who I see growing up, and every year I like them more.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsYearsMeanChildrenPersonsStillsI CanGrowsGrowing UpGrowingLike YouGrewPersonalityGrew UpMy FriendsRootsReally Like You Author:Ann Patchett
“The Tale of Despereaux came at the request of Luke, my friend's then-eight-year-old son, who asked, "Write for me the story of an unlikely hero with exceptionally large ears."” WritingYearsStoriesSonHeroMy FriendsEarsEightTalesUnlikelyRequestLukeDespereauxUnlikely Heroes Author:Kate DiCamillo
“A couple of years ago my friend and business partner Jeffrey Richards was doing the Gore Vidal play, The Best Man, starring James Earl Jones. I asked Jeffrey out to lunch and asked him what he thought of James playing Grandpa in You Can't Take It With You. Jeffrey thought it was a fabulous idea and so did James.” MenYearsIdeasPlayCoupleMy FriendsYears AgoPartnersLunchFabulousGoreGrandpaBusiness Partners Author:Chris Hart
“When I was 16, my friends and I were all starting to think about what we were going to do with our lives, and I started picturing myself majoring in dance at college traveling around with a contemporary dance company, and it didn't excite me as I thought it would all those years. I was just thinking about the things that I loved most about dance, which was entertaining and telling a story, and that's when I kind of opened my eyes again to acting.” ThinkingYearsKindStoriesEyeActingCompanyOur LivesCollegeMy FriendsStartingContemporaryEntertaining Author:Haley Lu Richardson
“I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L.A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town".” YearsLittlesDifferentBeautifulSpaceSeeingNew YorkStrangePeriodsMy FriendsTownsMovedEightLandscapeAdjustmentDifferent Relationships Author:Emma Stone
“I actually had another motivation for letting Steven [Sebring] film us. After I'd been out of the public eye for 16 years, lost my friends and lost my husband, some of my confidence had been undermined. Steven made the process of filming fun; I could pretend that we were in something like Don't Look Back.” YearsLooksMadeEyeFilmMotivationLostFunProcessHusbandMy FriendsMy HusbandPublic Eye Author:Patti Smith
“I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that. It's probably because my friend Jack Womack has a thesis that he and I write the way we do because we're southern and we experienced the very tail end of the premeditated south.” WayWritingYearsEndsReasonLastsConsciousMy FriendsSouthSouthernTailsThesis Author:William Gibson
“I watch a sort of primitive form of the recommodification machine around my friends and myself in sixties, and it took about two years for this clumsy mechanism to get and try to sell us The Monkees. In 1977, it took about eight months for a slightly faster more refined mechanism to put punk in the window of Holt Renfrew. It's gotten faster ever since. The scene in Seattle that Nirvana came from: as soon as it had a label, it was on the runways of Paris.There's no grace period, so that's a way in which I see us losing the interstitial.” WayTryingYearsTwoFormWatchesGraceMonthsPeriodsSceneLosingMy FriendsWindowMachinesSellsEightLabelsFasterParisTwo YearsMechanismPunkPrimitiveSixtyRefinedClumsySeattleRunway Author:William Gibson
“I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me to give him notes. And they were all male characters, and I said, "You know what would make this character more interesting?" And he asked what - and it's this road trip between three guys, basically, one older man, one 30-year-old and a 13-year-old mechanic. And I said, "If you make the 13-year-old a girl, and you make her an Indian-American mechanic." And he said, "What do you mean?" And I said, "Yeah, don't change anything in the script about him, and just make it a her."” IfsKnowsMenGivingYearsMeanSaidCharacterTogetherGuyGirlThreeInterestingMy FriendsYeahNotesMalesScriptsIndianMechanicDon't ChangeAmerican IndianRoad TripOlder Man Author:Karla Souza
“I want to see my friends who I have not seen about a year since I've started to do the whole recording thing. I love to sit down with them and have a coffee. I also want to go see movies.” WantYearsWholeMy FriendsCoffeeThings I Love Author:Angela Aki
“My 40 years in the foreign service and the careers of many of my friends became associated with the fall of the Soviet Empire and the putting in order of what came after - the building of a Europe whole, free, and at peace. It`s hard to recall today how improbable victory in the Cold War appeared.” YearsWarHardWholeTodayOrderFallCareersBuildingColdVictoryMy FriendsEuropeEmpiresSovietRecallsCold WarImprobableForeign Service Author:Daniel Fried
“At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.” YearsTurnsMy FriendsCelebrateFamily And Friends Author:Reba McEntire
“All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.” YearsGirlStarsMy FriendsMy FamilyMy FavoriteBirthday Author:Brandy Norwood
“When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.” PeopleWritingTryingYearsFirstsImportantBigsSongFiveFourInfluenceMy FriendsFive YearsWriting Songs Author:Conor Oberst
“In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.” YearsWantedNightFatherTelevisionMy FriendsTownsCamerasProductionsStudiosTeensEditingEdits Author:Joel Osteen