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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This wa... 
If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my for... 
The whole house came up and I came up with it, ... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me... 
I came to love, I came into my own. 
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself ... 
Growing up, I was always creatively inclined, and when YouTube came about, it was like getting the p... 
When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I g... 
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew t... 
As a kid, I was just led out in the morning to go spend my day with my friends and just run in the w... 
I recall my dad saying about me once that the only time he'd ever heard me say 'never' w... 
My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pock... 
When I played Ivanhoe, kids used to come along and kick me because they thought I wore armour under ... 
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h... 
Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great ... 
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. 
I used to sing when I was six years old. When the family would leave the house, I'd get up on th... 
When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And t... 
But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a litt... 
When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which mean... 
If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my fi... 
I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the we... 
I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t... 
I mean, if you asked me what I'm going to be doing when I'm 85, I'd make a quick picture... 
I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and a... 
My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out... 
I came here when I was 20. I came to go to school, but I ended up working for Halston as an assistan... 
A couple of weeks after the Olympics, I thought I'd pop down to my local supermarket and do some... 
I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd ... 
I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; eve... 
I had more pressure when I competed in Moscow. I had no pressure in Montreal because I only went to ... 
I was in Boots buying contact lens solution, and my mobile went off. It was Jay-Z's partner at R... 
When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on... 
I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a... 
Ah, my dad's whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along ... 
I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I... 
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you ... 
I did imitations of anyone who came to my parents' house, and that was my identity at school - i... 
When I did the first 'Matrix,' after it came out, I had a woman come up to me and just thank... 
I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos ... 
The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I... 
Yeah I grew up in the public eye. I became a man in the public eye, which is kind of a bizarre thing... 
Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Br... 
All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it in... 
My earliest memories of Gwyneth first singing is in bed when we would make up songs. The most I coul... 
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... 
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ... 
Me and Luke are fraternity brothers. Luke Bryan was already in Nashville when I got to college. He h... 
Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every tool shop of my mind, and with long ... 
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I h... 
At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black... 
I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.