It was MUCH more fun PLAYING with him than against him. If you wanted one PITCHER to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.

I was the seventh in the FAMILY. By the time I CAME along, one brother and two SISTERS had already BECOME teachers, and this was the sort of path carved out for the rest of the family.

I've lived in the same APARTMENT since seventh grade. It's in my NAME now; my MOM moved UPSTATE.

In seventh grade, with some VAGUE sense that I wanted to be a WRITER, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after SOMEONE NAMED Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

Directing your first FILM is LIKE showing up to the FIELD trip in seventh grade, getting on the BUS, and making an announcement, 'So today I'm driving the bus.' And everybody's like, 'What?' And you're like, 'I'm gonna drive the bus.' And they're like, 'But you don't know how to drive the bus.'

In the END, I did end up REPEATING seventh GRADE.

My overwhelming memory of my CHILDHOOD is the constant busyness in the house. I am seventh out of eight KIDS - five boys and three girls - PLUS my mom, Ruth.

To be shapely when you're in the seventh GRADE is not exactly what EVERYONE's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's LIKE a really GREAT THING to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

If we do not need to WORSHIP God SIX days in the WEEK why do we need to worship him on the seventh?

This is my fourth TERM and my seventh year. My first year was in 1997, the same year for Vic Snyder. It is still EXCITING to be there even though Washington is not run by DEMOCRATS right now, but we are WORKING very hard.

I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my FATHER didn't work two JOBS. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or TRYING to TAKE care of seven KIDS in a run-down farmhouse.