My Birthday Quotes - Page 6

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  Imogen Poots

  Brother, Papa, Teens

  "Imogen Poots Talks Jeff Buckley Biopic & What She’s Got Coming To A Theater Near You". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2011.

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• I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

  Bat for Lashes

  Dad, Halloween, Party

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• My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.

  Hedi Slimane

  Block, Passion, Writing

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?

  Erma Bombeck

  Family, Children, Sunday

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• I don't like to get things during the year, .. I like to wait for my birthday or Christmas. I may see something that I'll say, 'I'd really like that for my birthday.' I like to have things to look forward to.

  Dakota Fanning

  Christmas, Years, Waiting

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• I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

  Jon Scieszka

  Earthquakes, Two, Lunch

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• I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Birthday, Suits, Comfortable

  Interview with Justin Timberlake, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.

  Norton Juster

  Book, Boys, Night

  Norton Juster (2011). “The Phantom Tollbooth”, p.61, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Men, Childhood, Bats

  Rodney Dangerfield (2009). “It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs”, p.18, Zondervan

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• How late is it? How long have we been sitting here? I look at my watch – three thirty and the day is almost ending. It’s October. All those kids recently returned to classrooms with new bags and pencil cases will be looking forward to half term already. How quickly it goes. Halloween soon, then firework night. Christmas. Spring. Easter. Then there’s my birthday in May. I’ll be seventeen. How long can I stave it off? I don’t know. All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

  Jenny Downham

  Easter, Halloween, Spring

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• When I started this song I was still thirty-three The age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free Keats and Shelley too soon finished, Charley Parker would be And I fantasized some tragedy'd be soon curtailing me Well just today I had my birthday I made it thirty-four Mere mortal, not immortal, not star-crossed anymore I've got this problem with my aging I no longer can ignore A tame and toothless tabby can't produce a lion's roar.

  Harry Chapin

  Sweet, Song, Jesus

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Birthday, Humor

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• My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

  Dylan Thomas

  Names, Water, Bird

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• Shakespeare is God, of course. I have studied his plays for the vast majority of my sentient life. When I was a kid, my parents found an old copy of the LP recording of Richard Burton in John Gielgud's Broadway production of Hamlet and they gave it to me for my birthday. I listened to it till the grooves wore thin and I was off and running.

  Ken Ludwig

  Running, Kids, Play

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• I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

  Marian McPartland

  Birthday, Party, Years

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• I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

  Paulina Porizkova

  Birthday, America, Top Model

  "Paulina says she was fired from 'Top Model'". www.today.com. May 13, 2009.

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• My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

  Vincent Gallo

  Birthday, Mother, Shopping

  "Buffalo boy" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.

  Cheryl Hines

  Birthday, Husband, Cooking

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Let's make my birthday, July the 7th at noon, Peace and Love Day. Everybody go, 'Peace and love.' In the office, on the bus, wherever. It's still peace and love for me, I'm a product of the 60s and it was a very influential period in my life, and you know, my head was turned around a bit, my eyes were opened as it were. In fact, I even have it on my arm, 'Peace and love'. I see nothing wrong with peace and love.

  Ringo Starr

  Eye, July, Office

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• It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth year since I got into music. 'X' is the 24th letter in the alphabet, and I will turn 24 when this album comes out. 'X' is also a metaphor, as in 'ex-girlfriend': it implies you're progressing and moving on in life, not holding on to the past and your old ways.

  Chris Brown

  Girlfriend, Moving, Past

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• I would only spend a week or two in the Philippines, most probably the week during my birthday because I am planning to give away Christmas gifts to the poor people of General Santos just like what I did last year.

  Manny Pacquiao

  Motivation, Years, Two

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• Inspiration is very nice when you get it. It's like being given a present you weren't expecting. You don't hand the present back and say, 'My birthday's not till November.' You take it and run.

  Jan Mark

  Running, Nice, Inspiration

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• I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.

  Diana Vreeland

  Age, Remember, Boring

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• I always love coming to Disneyland but celebrating my birthday here with my family, friends and the kids from YSA is really awesome!, this is a night I'll never forget.

  Miley Cyrus

  Kids, Night, Never Forget

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• It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful - I will not be able to correct everyone's mistakes before I depart.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Mistake, Book, Years

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