Alan Furst
Related But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER DEYTH BANGER I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON LORNA LUFT JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER BUDDY HACKETT ERIC ALLIN CORNELL MARK WAHLBERG THEOPHILE GAUTIER JOYCE CAROL OATES BARRY BONDS I am not afraid... I was born to do this. JOAN OF ARC SATCHEL PAIGE MALUMA I was born with an evil face. BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration. LINCOLN CHAFEE NELSON MANDELA CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida. CHRISSY METZ STEVE CASE JESSE JACKSON DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television. DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church. CHEECH MARIN Leadership is something I was born with. CARMELO ANTHONY I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. DANIEL ALARCON OCTAVIA BUTLER I love people. I was born loving people. BETSY PALMER Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55. CHARLES KEATING I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON KATE DICAMILLO I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation. BILL O'REILLY I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a... WATT KEY VANILLA ICE JANE MCGONIGAL WILSON MIZNER I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church. QUINTON AARON MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida. KATE UPTON I was born and bred to be a great flirt. CYBILL SHEPHERD MICHELLE WILLIAMS AMBER HEARD DEBORAH SAMPSON REEM ACRA J. PAUL GETTY STEVEN SEAGAL LIZ PHAIR CHARLES OLSON I was raised to be some kind of artist. ELLAR COLTRANE My mom says I was born screaming. ELLE KING TA-NEHISI COATES I was supposed to write a romantic comedy, but my characters broke up. ANN BRASHARES BAT FOR LASHES BABYFACE SIMON MASHALLA I never looked at it that way. I didn't play high school football, so I had a late start. I was youn... BEN DAVIDSON NICOLE SCHERZINGER CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI I've always been conservative. I was born that way. RALPH HALL NAOMI CAMPBELL DANIEL EK JON ENGLISH I was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - in Amish Country! JONATHAN GROFF BUDDHA RODNEY DANGERFIELD My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies. ERIC BALFOUR AUDREY HEPBURN I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable. TONY CURTIS I was born in America, but I consider myself a Filipino. JESSICA SANCHEZ ROBERTO CLEMENTE GAYLE FORMAN I was born in Messina, Sicily. I stayed there until I was 18 and finished my studies. MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA AASIF MANDVI I was born in France. I grew up in Africa. BENJAMIN MILLEPIED KIM ALEXIS I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston. DOUGLAS WOOD I was born a character actor. CHARLES DURNING JENNIFER GARNER STORMZY NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely sel... SAMANTHA SHANNON I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to comp... CASSIE STEELE DOLLY PARTON There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel... VERONICA CARTWRIGHT I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo. SALLY RAND SARAH DESSEN DONALD TRUMP I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted. JANIS IAN SUSANNA KAYSEN GWEN STEFANI When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like... OSAMU DAZAI Writing-wise, I started when I was 17. Whatever was bothering me, I could just write about it in a s... KIIARA PAUL AUSTER I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born. NATALIA KILLS I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowt... MIKE WHITE I started wanting to be a head coach when I was 8 or 9. It's been a dream of mine since I was young. ADAM HOOVER I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it b... NAYVADIUS CASH DEYTH BANGER
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What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
I was born in a blender. 
I was born 'neath a clouded star. 
I was born to be funny. 
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. 
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. 
I was born to travel and write verse. 
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. 
I was born in August, no July, 1908. 
I was born in the technology era. 
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I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo. 
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. 
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. 
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I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. 
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I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertatio... 
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I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl. 
As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. 
Beirut is where I was born and raised. 
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. 
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Nilipozaliwa nilipendwa na kuogopwa, watu walicheza na mimi lakini mimi sikucheza nao. Niliwapenda. 
I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood. 
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. 
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