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It was spring of 2002, and I was in the middle of a radio interview, talking about my new book, The Right Words at the Right Time, in which I had asked 108 famous people -- people I admired -- to write about the words that changed their lives. Halfway through the interview, a listener called the station and told a story that would stay with me.

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The Right Words
at the Right Time

by Marlo Thomas

Published by Atria Books

 

List of Contributors

 

Table of Contents

Muhammad Ali 1
Christiane Amanpour 4
Stephen Ambrose 8
Jennifer Aniston 11
Lance Armstrong 15
Candice Bergen 18
Jeff Bezos 21
David Boies 24
Tom Brokaw 29
Mel Brooks 33
Barbara Bush 37
Laura Bush 40
President Jimmy Carter 44
Hillary Rodham Clinton 47
Chuck Close 50
Kenneth Cole 53
Bill Cosby 57
Katie Couric 61
Cindy Crawford 64
Walter Cronkite 66
Cameron Crowe 71
Billy Crystal 75
Ellen DeGeneres 79
Barry Diller 84
Dr. Peter Doherty 87
Phil Donahue 91
Michael Eisner 96
Daniel Ellsberg 100
Betty Ford 104
Diane von Furstenberg 107
Frank Gehry 109
Richard Gephardt 112
The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg 115
Rudolph Giuliani 118
Whoopi Goldberg 124
William Goldman 127
Doris Kearns Goodwin 131
Matt Groening 136
Uta Hagen 141
Scott Hamilton 145
Mia Hamm 149
Dr. David Ho 152
Arianna Huffington 155
James Jeffords 158
Philip Johnson 162
Robert Johnson 164
Quincy Jones 168
Andrea Jung 172
David E. Kelley 175
Billie Jean King 178
Ted Koppel 181
Ralph Lauren 185
Ang Lee 188
John Leguizamo 191
Jay Leno 195
Maya Lin 198
David Mamet 202
Wilma Mankiller 204
Mary Matalin 207
Dave Matthews 211
John McCain 213
Paul McCartney 217
Dennis Miller 220
Toni Morrison 221
Ralph Nader 224
Willie Nelson 228
Paul Newman 232
Mike Nichols 235
Jack Nicholson 239
Conan O’Brien 243
Rosie O’Donnell 247
Shaquille O’Neal 250
Al Pacino 253
Gwyneth Paltrow 257
Sarah Jessica Parker 261
Sean Penn 265
Itzhak Perlman 268
Bob Pittman 272
Sidney Poitier 275
Vladimir Pozner 280
Anna Quindlen 284
Dr. Sally Ride 288
Cal Ripken Jr. 290
Dennis Rivera 294
Chris Rock 298
Ray Romano 301
Carlos Santana 304
Diane Sawyer 307
Martin Sheen 310
Dr. Ruth Simmons 314
Carly Simon 317
Sammy Sosa 321
Steven Spielberg 325
George Steinbrenner 328
Gloria Steinem 331
Martha Stewart 335
Amy Tan 339
Julie Taymor 342
Twyla Tharp 345
Ted Turner 348
Mike Wallace 350
Barbara Walters 353
Vera Wang 357
Wendy Wasserstein 361
Maxine Waters 366
Venus Williams 371
Oprah Winfrey 374
Tom Wolfe 376
A Letter from the Dalai Lama 381

Published by Atria Books
January 2004
384 pages | US$16.00
ISBN: 074344650X

 
 

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