Jill Lepore Quotes

My first job, 9 years old, part-time, was selling Christmas cards door-to-door. Ten years old, my brother and I had paper routes. We delivered a morning paper called the 'L.A. Examiner.' Get up at 4 o'clock, fold your papers, deliver them and get ready for school.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

When I was 10, I had a paper route. One year, I delivered my papers through a hurricane. My mother was against the idea, but my dad, who was a sergeant in the Marine Corps, overruled her. I was determined to deliver my papers.

When I was a kid, we didn't really leave Cambridge, which was the town where I grew up in.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.

I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.

For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family stories and legends passed down.

I don't really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I'd hang out down there.

My world was small growing up. I never really left the three-mile radius of my tiny neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley.

I remember being an usherette at my local theater very, very early on, selling ice cream and programs - because they're not free in the U.K. - during pantomime season, which was super interesting. It meant a lot of kids, a lot of sweets, a lot of sugar-induced kids.

As a lad growing up in the Fifties and Sixties, I played both Gaelic football and soccer and loved them both.

As a kid, I was a paperboy, and the walls of the place where we picked up our papers were plastered with pictures of former paperboys - some sports figures, some presidents, some military officers.

I think, gosh, I'm just some kid from Tallahassee, Florida.

The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I've rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed.

Opening Day was a big thing. I came to a lot of Orioles games. I grew up a couple blocks from here, so I was always coming down to the stadium. I always made it down for Opening Day until I was a little bit older and I had ball. But when I was younger, I always missed school.

I used to go with my father to practice on the village pitch and with my friends.

I was born in Luton, I grew up in Luton, and all my family and friends are still there. Luton is home for me.

I grew up in Hockley, Birmingham. It was an environment I'll never forget in terms of playing football on local pitches, kicking a ball around in the front garden and all over the house. It was a positive place to live, and somewhere, that gave me the right grounding for where I am today.

To walk out at Wembley in an England shirt is a big deal for a girl who remembers playing in her local football cage down the park in Poplar with the boys.

Kanpur is my own town. I was born and brought up here.

The best thing you can do is remember your home town.

In my childhood, I used to usually visit Christmas fairs in our area and at school with my friends and I really miss those days.

I still live in the same town in Yorkshire where I've always lived.

I've known Stuart Broad since he was a child, living up the road from me.