Maurice Sendak On Being a Kid
"I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I’m still frightened. Everything is the same. Nothing changes." more »
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Jon Hendricks On Learning How to Communicate
"You don’t have to swing just on the bandstand. ... The way you pick up your child and bounce him, I think everything can swing." more »
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Thom Yorke On Wankers & Confronting Who You Are
"I’m humorless when I think people are wankers. You know, I’m not tolerant of idiots." more »
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Bono On His Dad's Final Days
"I’d go and usually have a pint of Guinness and a chaser to steady my nerves. Then I'd go to the hospital and I'd sleep beside my father." more »
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Surfer Kelly Slater On Problems in His Perfect Life
"My life was getting worse, not better, and it should have been getting better, because I’ve accomplished all the things I wanted to accomplish." more »
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Tim Gunn On His FBI Agent Father
"My father was J. Edgar Hoover's speechwriter. ... I was not the son he wanted to have." more »
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Comedian Chris Elliott On Family Comedy
"I can remember trying to impress my dad with my sense of humor. Sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing." more »
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Peter Straub On His Love for Soap Operas
"I’ll do email and work until 1:30, 2 because at two is the holy hour when I must watch “One Life to Live.” My Soap." more »
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Cherien Dabis On Being Told She Wasn't American
"My father’s patients, a lot of them, walked into his office and asked for their medical records back and left, because they didn’t want to see an Arab doctor. We got death threats." more »
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Saïd Sayrafiezadeh On Rejecting His Dad and Socialism
"I asked for the skateboard and it was like ... 'We don't have money but when the revolution comes it'll be fine. They’ll be free.'" more »
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