I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me... →
James D. Watson
My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.
Mark Webber
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
Jennifer Weiner
I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to... →
Harvey Weinstein
The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same... →
James Welch
I'd taken the bull by the horns by liberating myself and creating a career. It took guts - it was scary and chancy - but they discounted me as... →
Raquel Welch
I wanted to be a stage actor but I got stuck on television. It took a couple of years to get used to.
Kevin Whately
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
Edmund White
My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to... →
Eric Williams
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home.
Esther Williams