The Right Words At the Right Time
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Award-winning actress and bestselling author Marlo Thomas is joined by such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Tom Brokaw, Cal Ripken Jr., Steven Spielberg, Venus Williams, Rudy Giuliani, Toni Morrison, Jack Nicholson, Mel Brooks, Laura Bush, Billy Crystal, Tom Wolfe and Katie Couric, who each tell a story of a crucial turning point in their lives brought about by the right words at the right time. These first-person accounts of challenges and victories can provide guidance to all of us as we come to life's crossroads.
Al Pacino and Gwyneth Paltrow were instructed by words they heard during a crisis. Billy Crystal and Chris Rock used their humor to guide them. Ruth Bader Ginsburg received advice from her mother-in-law on her wedding day that continues to help her on the Supreme Court. These original stories encompass life's struggles and adventures and demonstrate how people we admire found hope and inspiration through words delivered by family or friends, heard in a movie or play, sung on the radio, told in a joke or even drawn in a cartoon.
The Right Words at the Right Time gathers the wit and wisdom of more than 100 innovators, thinkers and cultural icons and puts them into one collectible book.
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Muhammad Ali
Christiane Amanpour
Stephen Ambrose
Jennifer Aniston
Lance Armstrong
Candice Bergen
Jeff Bezos
David Boies
Tom Brokaw
Mel Brooks
Barbara Bush
Laura Bush
President Jimmy Carter
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Chuck Close
Kenneth Cole
Bill Cosby
Katie Couric
Cindy Crawford
Walter Cronkite
Cameron Crowe
Billy Crystal
Ellen DeGeneres
Barry Diller
Dr. Peter Doherty
Phil Donahue
Michael Eisner
Daniel Ellsberg
Betty Ford
Diane von Furstenberg
Frank Gehry
Richard Gephardt
The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Rudolph Giuliani
Whoopi Goldberg
William Goldman
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Matt Groening
Uta Hagen
Scott Hamilton
Mia Hamm
Dr. David Ho
Arianna Huffington
James Jeffords
Philip Johnson
Robert Johnson
Quincy Jones
Andrea Jung
David E. Kelley
Billie Jean King
Ted Koppel
Ralph Lauren
Ang Lee
John Leguizamo
Jay Leno
Maya Lin
David Mamet
Wilma Mankiller
Mary Matalin
Dave Matthews
John McCain
Paul McCartney
Dennis Miller
Toni Morrison
Ralph Nader
Willie Nelson
Paul Newman
Mike Nichols
Jack Nicholson
Conan O'Brien
Rosie O'Donnell
Shaquille O'Neal
Al Pacino
Gwyneth Paltrow
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sean Penn
Itzhak Perlman
Bob Pittman
Sidney Poitier
Vladimir Pozner
Anna Quindlen
Dr. Sally Ride
Cal Ripken Jr.
Dennis Rivera
Chris Rock
Ray Romano
Carlos Santana
Diane Sawyer
Martin Sheen
Dr. Ruth Simmons
Carly Simon
Sammy Sosa
Steven Spielberg
George Steinbrenner
Gloria Steinem
Martha Stewart
Amy Tan
Julie Taymor
Twyla Tharp
Ted Turner
Mike Wallace
Barbara Walters
Vera Wang
Wendy Wasserstein
Maxine Waters
Venus Williams
Oprah Winfrey
Tom Wolfe
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