My dad was an interior design and furniture person. I started working with him for four years before my first TV writing break.
My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.
When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.
When National Guardsmen shot four unarmed students at Kent State, virtually the entire system of higher education shuddered and stopped.
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.
In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.
I was Mayor of New York during a great Yankees dynasty. I got to preside over the city during four Yankees championships.
Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.
I like The Four Freshmen, anything with good harmonies, some Beach Boys. I like the girl groups as well, like The Dixie Cups and all that.
I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.
In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.
Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.
I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god.
I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.
Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
Throughout my life, there are four people I've met who were truly original people. The other three were Groucho Marx, Jim Morrison, and Pablo Picasso.
I don't walk off and come back for encores. I figure I can add four weeks to my life that way.
