I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.
You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
The seeded draw came into being. This means that the two best players of the tournament are placed in opposite halves in the draw, and cannot possibly meet until the finals, if they come through successfully against all the rest of the participants.
Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.
I'm very delighted they didn't choose to do the very musical episode of 'Once Upon a Time' when Ariel came in because I probably wouldn't have been the best girl for the job!
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.
The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.
We ended up with 19 hours of footage and had to narrow it down to an hour and a half. Our instructions were to film everything that came up, including the more mundane moments.
I was trying to be very at ease in this arrogant person, and very worldly, but something human came into the part. I hate to say that. I wanted to be totally worldly.
I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.
The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.
I imagine if aliens came down to Earth, they'd actually be quite tall; people seem to get everything right about extraterrestrials but the size!
When I came into the WWF, the first thing I really didn't want to have was being Bret Hart's little brother.
Christmas used to be a good "idea" 'til somebody came up with the concept of giving wrapped up presents to each other... :-)
When I first arrived in America, the very first place I came was California, and I rented a house in Trance, which is about half an hour from Malibu.
My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'
I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.
