On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.
Copy Quote View & ShareFacebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes.
Copy Quote View & ShareIn 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard.
Copy Quote View & ShareTil the day I didn't play under-19 World Cup, nobody ever celebrated my birthday. And the moment I played for Indian team, my family got excited and ordered and cut a cake for me in front of 40-50 family members.
Copy Quote View & ShareI can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that a lot. I can remember thinking it was cool that something I was interested in even had a history. Most things I loved didn't.
Copy Quote View & ShareDid you know you're supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice?
Copy Quote View & ShareI remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy parents split before my fifth birthday, and I moved with Mom and my three siblings to her native Oahu.
Copy Quote View & ShareMy family's dog, when I was growing up, was an adopted dog that I got in a shelter for my birthday. I've always felt really strongly about adopting animals and trying to save animals' lives.
Copy Quote View & ShareTo me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others' needs, I ached to reestablish myself.
Copy Quote View & Share'Robin's Test' is more contemporary than what I normally do. It's about couples going on a camping holiday for a 50th birthday. Two couples go, and then this other couple were going to come, but they've broken up, and so the man from that couple turns up, but with a new girlfriend that nobody likes - and I'm playing that character.
Copy Quote View & ShareFor my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.
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