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  • Amy Poehler on birthday

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    “I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.” -Amy Poehler

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  • Ed Koch on birthday

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    “Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.” -Ed Koch

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  • Robin Gibb on birthday

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    “You know, we’d just had a birthday, he was… you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world… a very gifted man, and it’s a loss to the world, not just for us.” -Robin Gibb

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  • Julianna Margulies on birthday

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    “The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend’s birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people’s birthdays.” -Julianna Margulies

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  • Kevin Smith on birthday

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    “I saw Richard Linklater’s film ‘Slacker’ for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.” -Kevin Smith

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  • Cat Deeley on birthday

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    “I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don’t know what it is, anybody’s only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.” -Cat Deeley

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  • Puff Daddy on birthday

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    “I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes… sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.” -Puff Daddy

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  • Maureen O’Hara on birthday

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    “John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I’m on borrowed time.” -Maureen O’Hara

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  • Brandy Norwood on birthday

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    “All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I’m having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.” -Brandy Norwood

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  • Florence Welch on birthday

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    “I’ve got some incredible fans actually – so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They’ve got this thing called ‘Floetry’ where they all have to put in artwork. They’ve set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind

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  • Mike Wallace on birthday

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    “As I approach my 88th birthday, it’s become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren’t quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.” -Mike Wallace

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  • Rick Springfield on birthday

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    “The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.” -Rick Springfield

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  • Stevie Nicks on birthday

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    “The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.” -Stevie Nicks

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  • Lisa Loeb on birthday

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    “With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.” -Lisa Loeb

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  • Katherine Jenkins on birthday

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    “I’m over the moon to be involved in the ‘Doctor Who’ Christmas special. I can’t quite believe it as it’s a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.” -Katherine Jenkins

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  • Sloane Crosley on birthday

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    “The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it’s the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.”

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  • Harold Pinter on birthday

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    “My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 – or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.” -Harold Pinter

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  • George Saunders on birthday

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    “I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he’s made of sugar.” -George Saunders

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  • Annie Dillard on birthday

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    “It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.” -Annie Dillard

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  • Gene Tierney on birthday

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    “I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.” -Gene Tierney

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  • Margaret Cho on birthday

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    “Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.” -Margaret Cho

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  • David Horowitz on birthday

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    “If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.” -David Horowitz

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  • Flip Wilson on birthday

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    “My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.” -Flip Wilson

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  • Rachael Ray on birthday

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    “I tried to bake a cake for my mother’s birthday – it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.” -Rachael Ray

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  • Chris Brown on birthday

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    “My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny’s Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.” -Chris Brown

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