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When I was six I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was Eminem. The old folk weren't expecting that.

"Why we are watching... Nico Mirallegro". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.

John Huston, Robert Emmet Long (2001). “John Huston: Interviews”, p.168, Univ. Press of Mississippi

He learned about life at sixteen, first from Dostoevsky and then from the whores of New Orleans.

Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America ; The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster ; And, In Watermelon Sugar”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt