Ann Hood Quotes

I am thrilled to write 'The Treasure Chest,' and to bring to life not only the childhoods of famous people from history, but also the characters of Maisie and Felix, who I hope you will fall in love with just as I have!

The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

People enjoy making fun of people who are famous; they love putting people down.

Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.

I love meeting famous people. I'm even happy just looking at them.

In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

Fact is, famous people say fame stinks because they love it so - like a secret restaurant or holiday island they don't want the hoi polloi to get their grubby paws on.

I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.

I have very positive memories of reading biographies of unusual Americans as a child.

I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.

I read so many books when I was a kid that I didn't even know were shaping me up.

I think my real influences are out of my control, which are the things that entered my brain when I was a kid growing up.

I love superstars.

I really find Jodha-Akbar a fine example of a couple, true or not, that people need to see today.

I did projects on Champlain coming up the St. Lawrence River and on Henry Hudson cast adrift in the bay that now bears his name. And I read dozens of historical novels: Rosemary Sutcliff on Roman Britain and G. A. Henty on British heroes, though my all-time favourite was Ronald Welch's 'Knight Crusader.'

We don't feel like we're famous. We just feel like we're doing what we love.

I know who famous people are, so I listen to them.

The stalkers can get a little scary at times, but I guess all these things are a part of being famous.

'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the impact they've made on American life.

One of my friend calls me 'lost to showbiz', but that's only because I don't go for a drink as often as he'd like, because I'm always working. I've met very few famous people who are lost to showbiz - I have met some, mind.

I'm not one of those who gets star struck at all, I don't feel I should give someone so much importance just because they are famous.

I love 'Boardwalk Empire.'