Pink (b. September 8th): “The aggressive side of me comes across…”

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• William Faulkner (b. September 25): “I feel like a wet seed…”
• F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. September 24): “Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist…”
• Bruce Springsteen (b. September 23): “It’s a sad man livin’ in his own skin…”
• Andrea Bocelli (b. September 22): “Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you.”
• Stephen King (b. September 21): “We make up horrors to help us cope…”
• Sophia Loren (b. September 20): “A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence…”
• Jeremy Irons (b. September 19): “Sadly, one’s parameters are constantly narrowed…”
• Great Garbo (b. September 18): “Life would be so wonderful if only…”
• Ken Kesey (b. September 17): “The sixties aren’t over…”
• BB King (b. September 16): “We all have idols…”
• Amy Winehouse (b. September 14): “I like pin-up girls…”
• Roald Dahl (b. September 13): “The life of a writer is absolute hell.”
• Jennifer Hudson (b. September 12): “Don’t block your blessings.”
• D.H. Lawrence (b. September 11): “Tragedy is like strong acid…”
• Joe Perry (b. September 10): “I want to be the flame the tribe dances around.”
• Colin Firth (b. September 10): “I have a kind of physical neutrality…”
• Hugh Grant (b. September 9): “Women are frightening.”
• Peter Sellers (b. September 8): “There is no me.”
• Pink (b. September 8th): “The aggressive side of me comes across…”
• Buddy Holly (b. September 7th): “Death is often referred to as a good career move.”
• Roger Waters (b. September 6th): “I’m in competition with myself and I’m losing.”
• Michael Jackson (b. August 29): “The greatest education is watching the masters at work.”
• Robertson Davies (b. August 28): “Authors like cats.”
• Shania Twain (b. August 28): “Life unravels the way it does…”
• Jeanette Winterson (b. August 27): 10 Rules for Writing
• Christopher Isherwood (b. August 26): “Life’s not so bad if you have a good physique…”
• Tim Burton (b. August 25): “Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.”
• Alexander McCall Smith (b. August 24): “A life without stories would be no life at all.”
• Jorge Luis Borges (b. August 24): “It is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger.”
• Nelson DeMille (b. August 23): “The problem with doing nothing…”
• Keith Moon (b. August 23): “I can’t believe that person is really me.”
• Kristen Wiig (b. August 22): “It’s dangerous to care what people think.”
• Kim Cattrall (b. August 21): “I prefer younger men.”
• Robert Plant (b. August 20): “The past is a stepping stone…”
• Coco Chanel (b. August 19): “Fashion fades…”
• Roman Polanski (b. August 18): “My films are the expression of momentary desires.”
• Edward Norton (b. August 18): “I relate to a character in terms of arc…”
• Robert DeNiro (b. August 17): “The hardest thing about being famous…”
• Charles Bukowski (b. August 16): “Some people never go crazy…”
• Jennifer Lawrence (b. August 15): “I’d love to have to shave my head.”
• Halle Berry (b. August 14): “My first and only three-way…”
• Alfred Hitchcock (b. August 13): “In films murders are always very clean…”
• Pat Metheny (b. August 12): “The beauty of jazz is that it’s malleable…”
• Steve Wozniak (b. August 11): “Never trust a computer…”
• Suzanne Collins (b. August 10): “I don’t write about adolescence…”
• Charles Baudelaire (b. April 9th): “Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us.”
• Gillian Anderson (b. August 8th): “Our paths are drawn for us…”
• Charlize Theron (b. August 7th): “I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.”
• Andy Warhol (b. August 6th): “Sex is more exciting on the screen…”
• Neil Armstrong (b. August 5th): “Science hasn’t yet mastered prophecy.”
• Denis Lehane (b. August 4th): “Narrative makes sense of chaos.”
• Martha Stewart (b. August 3rd): “When you’re through changing, you’re through.”
• Wes Craven (b. August 2nd): “The first monster… is yourself.”
• Jerry Garcia (b. August 1st): “I’m shopping around for something…”
• J. K. Rowling (b. July 31): “Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”
• Emily Bronte (b. July 30): “If I could I’d always work in silence…”
• Geddy Lee (b. July 29): “I’m a big believer of daylight…”
• Marcel Duchamp (b. July 28): “I am forced to contradict myself…”
• Jack Higgins (b. July 27): “You’ve got to be obsessive, spend enormous effort and still get nowhere.”
• Maya Rudolph (b. July 27): “I still have a fantasy…”
• Mick Jagger (b. July 26): “It’s all right letting yourself go…”
• Matt LeBlanc (b. July 25): “I’m much more low-key…”
• Alexandre Dumas (b. July 24): “Work may be finished, education never.”
• Amelia Earhart (b. July 24): “The most difficult thing is the decision to act…”
• Raymond Chandler (b. July 23): “The most durable thing in writing is style…”
• Tom Robbins (b. July 22): “The most important novels are like coyotes…”
• Don Henley (b. July 22): “A man with a briefcase can steal millions…”
• Brian May (b. July 19): “The guitar has a kind of grit…”
• Hunter S. Thompson (b. July 18): “America – 200 million used car salesmen with money to buy guns…”
• Nelson Mandela (b. July 18): “We must use time wisely…”
• Angela Merkel (b. July 17): “The question is not whether we are able to change…”
• Stewart Copeland (b. July 16): “The music market is in the hands of fascists.”
• Arianna Huffington (b. July 15): “Most people no longer believe in an afterlife.”
• Diane Kruger (b. July 15): “I don’t want to let my life as a woman pass me by.”
• Ingmar Bergman (b. July 14): “Film goes directly to our feelings, down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
• Gustav Klimt (b. July 14): “All art is erotic.”
• Harrison Ford (b. July 13): “I rarely play a real person…”
• Buckminster Fuller (b. July 12): “Everyone is born a genius.”
• Sofia Vergara (b. July 10): “I’m fearless, I don’t complain.”
• Jack White (b. July 9): “I don’t like to take the easy way out.”
• Nikola Tesla (b. July 10): “The spread of civilization is like a fire…”
• Beck (b. July 8): “I don’t have enough hair to be a genius.”
• Robert Heinlein (b. July 7th): “Women and cats do as they please.”
• Dalai Lama (b. July 6th): “I don’t judge the universe.”
• Ann Landers (b. July 4): “One out of four people is mentally unbalanced.”
• Jean Cocteau (b. July 5th): “When I write, I disturb.”
• Franz Kafka (b. July 3): “Writing is utter solitude…”
• Larry David (July 2): “I had a wonderful childhood…”
• Hermann Hesse (b. July 2nd): “When dealing with the insane, pretend to be sane.”
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• Princess Diana (b. July 1): “They say it’s better to be poor and happy…”
• Vincent D’Onofrio (b. June 30): “The search for the truth is not for the faint-hearted.”
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• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (b. June 29): “Perfection is attained when there’s no longer anything to take away.”
• Gilda Radner (b. June 28): “Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.”
• Dan Brown (b. June 22): “My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences…”
• Jean-Paul Sartre (b. June 21): “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”
• Nicole Kidman (b. June 20): “You don’t have to be naked to be sexy.”
• John Donne (b. June 19): “Art is the most passionate orgy within man’s grasp.”
• Paul McCartney (b. June 18): “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
• George Orwell: “Writing a book is a like a long bout of painful illness.”
• M.C. Escher (b. June 17): “I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.”
• Joyce Carol Oates (b. June 16): “People say there’s too much violence in my books.”
• Waylon Jennings (b. June 15): “Honesty is something you can’t wear out.”
• Jerzy Kosinski (b. June 14): “An umbrella interferes with the sky…”
• W.B. Yeats (b. June 13): “Don’t wait till the iron is hot…”
• Anne Frank (b. June 12): “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
• Hugh Laurie (b. June 11): “You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.”
• Saul Bellow (b. June 10): “A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.”
• Maurice Sendak (b. June 10): “Childhood is a tricky business.”
• Johnny Depp (b. June 9th): “I don’t pretend to be Captain Weird.”
• Joan Rivers (b. June 8th): “I don’t bend over.”
• Prince (b. June 7th): “Money won’t buy happiness, but it’ll pay for the search.”
• Sandra Bernhard (b. June 6th): “When you’re constantly looking for things from other people, you’re not looking within yourself.”
• Mark Wahlberg (b. June 5th): “I start my day out by saying my prayers.”
• Dr. Ruth (b. June 4th): “Talking about sex has helped my skiing.”
• Larry McMurtry (b. 3 June 1936): “Looking back isn’t natural for Americans – historical ignorance is a national characteristic.”
• Charlie Watts (b. June 2nd): “When people talk about the 60s I never think that was me there.”
• Marilyn Monroe (b. June 1st): “Dreaming about being an actress is more exciting then being one.”
• Clint Eastwood (b. May 31): “I tried being reasonable; I didn’t like it.”
• Cee Lo Green (b. May 30): “Loving something you’ve lost is all the incentive you need to love again.”
• Melissa Etheridge (b. May 29) “I’m so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.”
• Ian Fleming (b. May 28) “You only live twice.”
• Dashiell Hammett (b. May 27) “I’ve been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.”
• Miles Davis (b. May 26) “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.”
• Mike Myers (b. May 25) “At any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.”
• Michael Chabon (b. May 24): “To become a successful novelist, you need talent, luck and discipline…”
• Bob Dylan (b. May 24) “I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.”
• Queen Victoria (b. May 24): “Intimacy with artists is dangerous…”
• Jewel (b. May 23) “Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.”
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (b. May 22): “Life itself is always far more daring than the imagination.”
• Naomi Campbell (b. May 22): “Why do I have to wear underwear?”
• Fats Waller (b. May 21): “If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it.”
• Cher (b. May 20): “The longer I look good, the better gay men feel.”
• Malcolm X (b. May 19): “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.”
• Enya (b. May 17): “Writing every song is a little journey.”
• Alice Hoffman (b. March 16): “Books may well be the only true magic.”
• Megan Fox (b. May 16): “I’m so mentally ill, I could do something really interesting.”
• Katherine Anne Porter (b. May 15): “The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty.”
• Jasper Johns (b. May 15): “To be an artist you have to give up everything.”
• David Byrne (b. May 14): “An artist’s creativity comes from torment.”
• Stevie Wonder (b. May 13): “Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.”
• George Carlin (b. May 12): “Language is a tool for concealing the truth.”
• Salvador Dali (b. May 11): “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.”
• Bono (b. May 10): “It’s stasis that kills you in the end…”
• Billy Joel (b. May 9th): “I am merely competent…”
• Eva Peron (b. May 7th): “One cannot accomplish anything without fanaticism.”
• Orson Welles (b. May 6th): “I started at the top and worked my way down.”
• George Clooney (b. May 6th): “I’m really white trash.”
• Tammy Wynette (b. May 5th): “It’s hard giving all your love to just one man.”