Television Production

🇺🇸Courteney Cox

Entertainment

b. 1964

"It's not like I let people do things for me, so I guess you can call me a control freak, or you can call me passionate... I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination."

🇺🇸RuPaul

Music

b. 1960

"Drag is really about mocking identity. Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are – you are more than what it says on your passport."

🇨🇦Ruth Ozeki

Literature

b. 1956

"As a writer you wait around for inspiration; this book is about what happens when a character taps a writer on the shoulder and calls her into being; it's about the character creating a novelist."

🇺🇸Lynn Nottage

Literature

b. 1964

"My motto when I was writing this was ‘replace judgment with curiosity’."

🇮🇪Cecelia Ahern

Literature

b. 1981

"Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story."

🇺🇸Pamela Anderson

Literature

b. 1967

"2002 — Царь горы / King of the Hill — Синди"

🇬🇧Mick Jackson (director)

Entertainment

b. 1943

"The idea was to take a movie which was about death...and use the iconography of life to tell the story."

🇬🇧Lee Child

Literature

b. 1954

"Jack Reacher stayed alive, because he got cautious. He got cautious because he heard an echo from his past. He had a lot of past, and the echo was from the worst part of it."

🇺🇸Tim Gunn

Education

b. 1953

"Stella’s work has helped to redefine and recalibrate our thinking. … Higher-end brands have said they couldn’t exist without fur. Stella proves, of course you can."

🇬🇧Russell T Davies

Medicine

b. 1963

"Five million Cybermen, easy. One Doctor? Now you're scared."

🇦🇺Barry Humphries

Entertainment

1934–2023

"And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me."

🇺🇸Jay Leno

Entertainment

b. 1950

"This is now the twelfth day of rioting in France. They have been rioting for almost two weeks. And France has still not surrendered. That's like a record."

"It is the deep, salty stickiness of food that intrigues me more than any other quality."

🇺🇸Ted Malloch

Business

b. 1952

"Discipline is the virtue that begins in obedience and flowers in self-control."