#jo

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable. ↗

— Mark David Chapman

#did #i #john #lennon #life

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#i #my own #own #sometimes #thoughts

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length. ↗

— Craig Charles

#been #journalists #keep #length #once

Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth. ↗

— Leslie Charteris

#did #done #eliminate #four #good

Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.' ↗

— Kalpana Chawla

#astronauts #did #different #great #great job

The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable. ↗

— John Cheever

#deep #fallen #joy #just #love

I had a brief theater background and loved the backstage world there's more backstage work in television, so I saw a job advertised and applied, and got it. That was back in 1977, when getting jobs was easy. ↗

— Lee Child

#applied #back #background #backstage #brief

My last real job was selling air time for CBS affiliates. I quit that when I was 28, and that was the last real job I had. I beat the system. I've been able to do this full-time for almost 15 years. ↗

— James Denton

#affiliates #air #air time #almost #beat

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture. ↗

— Natalie Cole

#culture #idols #janis #janis joplin #joplin

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much. ↗

— Julie Christie

#could #embarrassed #enjoy #i #kind