The World Motivation
We were very poor, and I entered a talent contest as a young teenager because if you entered, even if you didn't win, they gave you a free blouse.
“We were very poor, and I entered a talent contest as a young teenager because if you entered, even if you didn't win, they gave you a free blouse.”
We were very poor, and I entered a talent contest as a young teenager because if you entered, even if you didn't win, they gave you a free blouse.
I like being a Girl Scout.
We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.
Gene Kelly was a little tough, and he used to yell at me on the set.
I love having my ghosts, and I love having my memories.
Making economic policy isn't a popularity contest, especially when financial markets are in a panic.
While I was in junior high, I wrote an entire essay in rhyme about manufacturing in New York State. In high school, I won a Scholastic poetry contest.
They had a contest where they would - for some reason, someone in the past loved musical theater, and so if you wrote a musical, they would fully fund it and put it on the main stage with full costumes and a set and everything, and my roommate said we should totally do that.
I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.
In 1970, at the age of 14, I entered a short story contest offering a grand prize of one dollar. I won. This was my first foray into writing fiction. I loved reading and thought that it shouldn't be so hard to write a story.