We depend on the critics to give us a glimpse of what happened. Bernard Shaw championed Ibsen, who got the most terrible notices for his plays. Kenneth Tynan championed young writers, and as a result, the theatre has changed radically.

My mother said I used to dance to all this radio music when I was a young kid.

As a young footballer at United, Steve Bruce was one of the senior pros I really admired.

After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.

One can't live with a child of Holocaust survivors without absorbing some of the same sensibilities that her parents transmitted to her as a young girl. It is an unspoken dread, a sense of fragility, an anxious anticipation of unseen horrors.

From a young age, I wanted to play in the NBA. Oh well... It was when I was a senior in college that I fell for film, but even then, it wasn't documentaries. It wasn't until I ended up in graduate school at Southern Illinois University that I really discovered documentaries and thought that maybe that would be my calling.

I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.

There are times in the career of every young English footballer when they simply need to take their chance to establish themselves.

I get up at 5 A.M., and I train hard. I've got two young children, so I have to get up early. But I like it.

I've never really dated actresses except when I was really young.

I first saw 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They?' when I was very young. Its transporting qualities were so strong that I felt like I had lived it. Only recently, with adult eyes, was I able to metabolize how tragic a tale it really is.

I was really a very ambitious young girl when I started studying drama and performing art.

I wasn't that excited about football when I was young, but it did become my passion.

I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so many young writers of my generation who tried to imitate him. I think, for his time, he moved fiction to a different level stylistically, or at least added to the dialogue, but in our time, he's annoying.

I was elected to Westminster when I was 25; I was Britain's youngest MP.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

I used to get scouted outside of Topshop and stuff, and I was brought up in the fashion industry and did a few shoots when I was young, which was always fun to get dressed up.

When I was young, I had no choice as to what I was eating.

I always talk to young writers about when you make art in your room, you make art. And when you send it to New York and L.A., you have to be a professional. Of course, when you sell your book rights as an option for a movie, you have to be a professional about that.

To me, I didn't think of acting as being a young thing only.