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American actor
Born: January 21, 1956

As a child, Geena dreamed of being an actress. While in high school, she felt left out and had low self-esteem because, at 6 feet, she was the tallest girl in school. After high school graduation, Geena entered New England College in New Hampshire and then transferred the following year to Boston University, where she majored in drama. In 1977, she left BU and moved to New York to start her career. Her career consisted of that of a sales clerk and waitress. She worked at Ann Taylor, where she eventually rose to the position of Saturday window mannequin while trying to get a job with a modeling agency. Eventually signed by the Zoli Agency, she wound up as a model in the Victoria Secret catalog. Ever vigilant, Sydney Pollack was looking for new talent in the catalog when he spotted Geena and cast her in Tootsie (1982). With good reviews, Geena moved to Los Angeles, where she was cast as Wendy in the short-lived but critically acclaimed television series Buffalo Bill (1983) with Dabney Coleman.

Geena Davis’s 5 most popular quotes

• The whole point of why I’m doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in the world and have half of the dreams and ambitions. Our slogan is, “If they see it, they can be it.”
• All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won’t watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.
• I don’t know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.
• The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
• I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don’t get to do anything. And it’s really hard to avoid those.

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American actor
Born: January 19, 1992

One of today’s leading talents across both independent and mainstream film, Logan Lerman is an immensely talented actor who takes on challenging roles and brings dynamic characters to life on screen.

Logan was born in Beverly Hills, to a Jewish family. His parents are Lisa (Goldman), who worked as his manager, and Larry Lerman, an orthotist and businessman. He has two siblings, Lindsey and Lucas, both older. His family operate the orthotics and prosthetics company Lerman & Son, which was founded by his great-grandfather, Jacob Lerman.

When he was two and a half years old, Logan told his mother that he wanted to be an actor. At the age of four, Logan had an agent and was booked for two commercials. He made his big screen debut as William, the youngest son of Mel Gibson’s character, in Roland Emmerich’s war drama The Patriot (2000) and then appeared as the younger version of Gibson’s character Nick Marshall in Nancy Meyers’s romantic comedy What Women Want (2000). After a small role in 2001’s Riding in Cars with Boys (2001), by “Penny Marshall,” he starred in the John Grisham adaptation A Painted House (2003), a made-for-television film that won him the first of his three Young Artist Awards.

Logan Lerman’s 5 most popular quotes

• It’s like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.
• I’d say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being.
• One day, I’ll stop making weird faces in pictures. But not today.
• Life is a rollercoaster ride and I don’t intend on being the one screaming and hanging on for dear life.
• I would add a little more love in the world. It’s ridiculous, I know, but it is one thing I would do.

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American actress
Born: January 19, 1972

Andrea Donna de Matteo, called Drea (pronounced “dray”), was born on January 19, 1972 in Queens, New York, into an affluent family, the youngest of three children and the only girl. She is the daughter of Donna, a playwright and playwriting teacher at HB Studio in New York, and Albert A. De Matteo, a furniture manufacturer. She is of Italian descent. De Matteo spent her early childhood in Queens, and the family then moved to the Upper East Side in Manhattan, into Aretha Franklin’s former townhouse.

De Matteo decided to pursue a directing career at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, perhaps because of the brief moment when, as a girl, she was brought onstage out of the audience and dazzled by the stage lights when she was seeing the play “Cats,” perhaps because of her mother’s involvement in the entertainment business. Once she was in school, however, it was the acting classes that attracted her greatest interest, and she decided on an acting career. After a screen debut in an obscure independent and a small part in a small movie, Meet Prince Charming (2002), de Matteo auditioned for a one-episode part in the HBO series The Sopranos (1999). She impressed the producers enough that they expanded the role as Adriana La Cerva, girlfriend to up-and-coming Soprano family soldier Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli), and she eventually became a regular on the show. De Matteo had the right sultry beauty to portray Adriana, but her acting skills greatly fleshed out the character, making her as rich and complex a character as a slightly ditzy gangster’s girlfriend can be in the first place—humorous, even charming in a way, and, ultimately, tragic. She won an Emmy award for her portrayal of Adriana in 2004.

Drea de Matteo’s 5 most popular quotes

• A happiness that won’t stand up to examination is less than worthless.
• I definitely play roles that are close to my persona. I was dying to be an actor, my whole life. I just always wanted to be someone else. Then, once I decided that I really thought I was pretty cool, I wanted to see myself.
• I’ve been in so many funeral scenes from The Sopranos, and I think I’ve even been in one on Sons of Anarchy. Those scenes, as a human being, are the most tedious scenes, of all time. You’re waiting, all day, in the blistering hot heat. So, I didn’t need to be there.
• I First of all, I would shoot myself if I ever had to play straight-forward characters that really don’t have much of a past. Maybe it’s just that I’m not a good enough actor to have to embellish, but I like having these really, really rich roles to play.
• I’m tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game – the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.

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American actress
Born: January 19, 1954

An extremely gifted, versatile performer adept at both comedy and drama, actress/singer Katey Sagal became a household name in the late 1980s as the fabulously brazen, undomesticated Peg Bundy on the enduring Fox series Married with Children (1987). During its lengthy run she received three Golden Globe and two American Comedy Award nominations. As popular and identifiable as her Peg Bundy persona was, Katey assertively moved on after the show went off the air, not only starring in other sitcoms and television movies, but portraying characters that were polar opposites of the outrageous role that first earned her nationwide attention. For example, in 2008 she took on the role of Gemma Teller Morrow, the matriarch of a Hell’s- Angels-esque California biker gang, on the series Sons of Anarchy (2008), and in 2011 her portrayal earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in the Television Series–Drama.

Catherine Louise Sagal was born on January 19, 1954, to director and singer Sara Zwilling and noted television and film director Boris Sagal. The Los Angeles native began performing at age 5 and studied voice and acting at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California.

Katey Sagal’s 5 most popular quotes

• The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.
• It’s sort of the mixed blessing of being on television for so long in one thing; sometimes that backfires, in that you’re not able to continue on.
• I’ve done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
• I think the biggest change has been realizing I now have three children.
• There’s so many great songs already written, it’s kind of really wonderful you don’t have to write your own.

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American singer
Born: January 19, 1943
Died: October 4, 1970

Janis Lyn Joplin was born at St. Mary’s Hospital in the oil-refining town of Port Arthur, Texas, near the border with Louisiana. Her father was a cannery worker, and her mother was a registrar for a business college. As an overweight teenager, she was a folk-music devotee (especially Odetta, Leadbelly, and Bessie Smith). After graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School, she attended Lamar State College and the University of Texas, where she played autoharp in Austin bars. bars. She was nominated for the Ugliest Man on Campus in 1963, and she spent two years traveling, performing, and becoming drug addicted. Back home in 1966, her friend Chet Helms suggested she become the lead singer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, an established Haight-Ashbury band consisting of guitarists James Gurley and Sam Andrew, bassist Peter Albin, and drummer Dave Getz. She got wide recognition through the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, highlights of which were released in Monterey Pop (1968), and with the band’s landmark second album, “Cheap Thrills.” She formed her “Kosmic Blues Band” the following year and achieved still further recognition as a solo performer at Woodstock in 1969, with highlights released in Woodstock (1970). In the spring of 1970, she sang with the “Full Tilt Boogie Band,” and on October 4 of that year, she was found dead in Hollywood’s Landmark Motor Hotel (now known as Highland Gardens Hotel) from a heroin-alcohol overdose the previous day. Her ashes were scattered off the coast of California. Her best-selling album was the posthumously released “Pearl,” which contained her quintessential song, “Me & Bobby McGee.”

Janis Joplin’s 5 most popular quotes

• To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That’s what I’m trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bullshit myself and not bullshit anybody else.
• If you’ve got a today, don’t wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It’s all the same day.
• As good as you’ve been to this world is as good as it’s gonna be right back to you.
• When you hold somebody, you gotta hold them like it’s the last minute of your life.
• I’m just doing what I wanted to and what feels right and not settling for bullshit and it worked. How can they be mad at that?

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American singer-songwriter
Born: January 19, 1946

Dolly Parton, in full Dolly Rebecca Parton, (born January 19, 1946, Locust Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.), American country music singer, guitarist, and actress best known for pioneering the interface between country and pop music styles.

Parton was born into a poor farming family, the fourth of 12 children. She displayed an aptitude and passion for music at an early age, and as a child she was a featured singer and guitarist on local radio and television shows in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1964, immediately following her high-school graduation, she set out for Nashville to pursue a career in music.

In Nashville, Parton became the protégé of country music singer and Grand Ole Opry star Porter Wagoner. Through repeated appearances on Wagoner’s syndicated television show, Parton gained coast-to-coast recognition. She soon attracted the attention of the music industry moguls at RCA Records and subsequently recorded more than a dozen hit songs—together with Wagoner—on the RCA label. Owing much to her association with Wagoner, Parton rapidly emerged as one of country music’s most popular singers.

Dolly Parton’s 5 most popular quotes

• I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be, because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.
• If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader.
• The seeds of dreams are often found in books, and the seeds you help plant in your community can grow across the world.
• I know how to stand my ground. I know how to speak up. I know how to stand sturdy. But that doesn’t mean I’ve hardened my heart.
• People say how you stay looking so young? I say, well, good lighting, good doctors, and good makeup.

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American singer-songwriter
Born: January 18, 1982

Joanna Caroline Newsom is an American singer, songwriter, musician and actress. Born and raised in Northern California, Newsom was classically trained on the harp in her youth and began her musical career as a keyboardist in the San Francisco-based indie band The Pleased.

After recording and self-releasing two EPs in 2002, Newsom was signed to the independent label Drag City. Her debut album, The Milk-Eyed Mender, was released in 2004 to critical acclaim and garnered Newsom an underground following. She would receive wider exposure with the release of Ys (2006), which charted at number 134 on the Billboard 200.

She released two further albums: Have One on Me (2010) and Divers (2015), the latter of which outsold all of her previous albums. Newsom has been noted by critics for her unique musical style, sometimes characterized as “psychedelic folk,” and for her prominent use of harp instrumentation. She has also appeared as an actress, with roles in the television series Portlandia and the 2014 film Inherent Vice.

Joanna Newsom’s 5 most popular quotes

• It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.
• We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.
• What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.
• Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.
• I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

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American actor
Born: January 18, 1980

Multi-talented Jason Jordan Segel was born in Los Angeles, California, where he was raised by his parents, Jillian (Jordan), a homemaker, and Alvin Segel, a lawyer. His mother is of English, Scottish, and Irish ancestry, and his father is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. He was educated at St. Matthew’s Parish School in Pacific Palisades, before moving on to Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. During his education he showed an interest in acting and often performed in plays at the Palisades Playhouse.

His major break came in 1999, when he was cast as Nick Andopolis in Judd Apatow’s well-regarded series Freaks and Geeks (1999). Further TV and film roles followed, notably in How I Met Your Mother (2005) and Knocked Up (2007). His film breakthrough, however, came in 2008’s hit Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) which he wrote and starred in. Segel also co-wrote and starred in The Muppets (2011).

Segel is also a musician and songwriter, with his songs appearing in many projects, including Freaks and Geeks (1999), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008), I Love You, Man (2009), How I Met Your Mother (2005), and Get Him to the Greek (2010).

Jason Segel’s 5 most popular quotes

• Part of growing up is not waiting in line at a hipster breakfast restaurant. The eggs taste the same across the street. I promise.
• My mother taught me to be nice to everybody. And she said something before I left home. She said, ‘I want you to always remember that the person you are in this world is a reflection of the job I did as a mother.’
• Honestly, I have come to believe that everything is in the order it’s in for a reason. I am happy with who I am today.
• The narrative of our lives is a total construct. We get to choose what that is. That is something I’ve realized as I’ve gotten older. I have a lot of choices about the story that I’m telling myself about my life. So where do I find meaning?
• A man can certainly be a Muppet. Being a Muppet is a state of mind. It’s about finding that little part of you that’s unique, and not being embarrassed by it, but cherishing it.

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Spanish football manager
Born: January 18, 1971

Josep “Pep” Guardiola is a football manager, known as being one of the greatest tacticians in the history of the sport. He was born in Catalonia and has been a FC Barcelona fan since his childhood, acting as a ballboy for the senior team when he trained in the team’s youth academy. He played for Barça for 11 years and won four back-to-back La Ligas and the club’s first European Cup. From 2008-2012, he managed a Barcelona team that, with Messi as its star, will go down as one of the greatest teams in the history of the game. In four years, he won a club record 14 honors. He has also managed German powerhouse Bayern Munich and became Manchester City manager in 2016.

Pep Guardiola’s 5 most popular quotes

• In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
• The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won’t take it when you choose not to put in the effort.
• If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.
• I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.
• We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.

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American actor
Born: January 18, 1969

David Michael Bautista, Jr. was born on January 18, 1969 in Washington, D.C., to Donna Raye (Mullins) and David Michael Bautista, a hairdresser. He has Filipino and Greek ancestry.

When WCW officials told him he’d never make it in sports entertainment, Bautista pushed himself to achieve his dream of being a superstar. In May 2002, he made his debut on SmackDown using the ring name Batista, but it wasn’t until a move to Raw and two victories over Kane that “The Animal” began to make noise in the WWE Universe. The wins impressed Ric Flair and Triple H, who were looking to align themselves with the industry’s brightest new stars. After a lengthy search, they identified Randy Orton and Jose Batista. Collectively, the four superstars became known as Evolution.

Dave Bautista’s 5 most popular quotes

• I’m not afraid to go up to people and pick their brains and ask for advice. To me, that’s how you get better. That’s how I’ve gotten better at everything I’ve ever done. Don’t be too proud to ask for help.
• I’m a poor kid from the streets. What I’ve been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn’t do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.
• I’m not a big guy. I’m not a menacing guy. I’m not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that’s not who I am – not as a person, as a character. It’s not who I intend to be.
• I didn’t want to be a movie star, I wanted to be an actor. Because acting is what I fell in love with, and acting is what is still challenging for me.
• People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am.

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