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SAM HEUGHAN My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever wa... SUZANNE COLLINS Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career mo... MILLA JOVOVICH Inside of me, it was like my soul and what I had to do to feed my family was always split. I was wri... TYKA NELSON Even though I knew my way around Facebook, Twitter terrified me. RT? OH? Hootsuite? Huh? My Twitter-... SARAH MLYNOWSKI Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I cou... KATE KLISE I'm a first-time father, and it was amazing to me to learn that my son could actually use sign l... MATT REEVES I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could se... HANNAH MILLS I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw... JANE MARCH When I was 13 I asked my mother if it was possible for this to end - I'd had enough of it. And t... LINDA BLAIR Just as He had been doing even before the moment I consciously embarked on this journey, He revealed... RIISA RENEE If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them fe... REBECCA MADER I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. B... SADIE FROST When I was a kid, my parents would play badminton, but I hardly joined them. I'd just pick up th... SAINA NEHWAL 'Damages' was cool. It brought me back to New York for a little while, so that was a lot of ... BAILEY CHASE Obviously, my emotions were running pretty high, ... I found out about an hour before the game after... BILLY VOLEK If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilariou... PAUL RUDD The facebook was responsible for his marriage and the same facebook was responsible for his divorce,... DR HITESH C SHETH At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I stil... HARRY KANE I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this ... CHELSEA CAIN Thanks to my fans for support on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. ALEXANDRE PATO For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just ... JILLIAN MICHAELS When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I ... LINA WERTMULLER 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a... CONOR MCGREGOR When I was in high school, I got bullied through social media - on the Internet, on my Facebook. Tha... ALEXIA FAST I realized early on I was not an actor. And it was a great thing to have that realization. To see ac... DARREN STAR I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I... HUNTER HAYES I joined Facebook in the summer of 2008 - before that I was at Mozilla. MIKE SCHROEPFER My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a w... ISLA FISHER They lined it right up at me. They found me because they thought I messed it up the week before, but... DREW STANTON Maybe she's got a Facebook page, like every other kid in America. We could put something on her wall... ANGELA KNIGHT The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with s... DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ In order for me to write a scene, it's very important for me to see and experience everything wi... KEVIN KWAN When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study anima... NICK PARK I was bored stiff while reading this. I got so bored I wanted to slit my wrists to see how my flatma... ZAKI I was about thirteen when I started thinking about the stock market. My dad helped me a little bit. ... CHARLES SCHWAB We just did what we'd done when we were an act in the '60s. But I found it impossible to hol... PAUL SIMON It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support. TOM FELTON I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called... ASHTON KUTCHER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER All the way on the West Coast, never having seen a Broadway show, it was like, 'They don't w... DAVEED DIGGS I think that it's really incredible, growing up and being able to have all these people who real... OLIVIA HOLT I felt like it was my time to go, even though I was extremely upset that I had lost this opportunity... JULIE LELAND I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou... BRIAN JACQUES My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days ... XAVIER RUDD I want to apologize to my teammates, the fans, the club and Major League Soccer for my actions. What... CHRISTIAN GOMEZ Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal. ROB THOMAS 'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is ext... COREY TAYLOR I came up during the 'Star Wars' generation and that was sort of the thing I plugged into mu... ZACHARY QUINTO It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new... AL PACINO Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat the... BILL MAHER The writing of 'Topdog' was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that... SUZAN-LORI PARKS I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDon... SHARON STONE DMX wasn't checking what his fans were saying to him on Twitter or Facebook. Jay-Z is on a boat ... THEOPHILUS LONDON I'd never taken a job purely for money - I felt that would kill me - but I was afraid that I was... MARK RUFFALO Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then... GARETH GATES This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter accou... PAULO COELHO If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother in... DONNA BRAZILE It was like a dream. It is a dream that came true. I lived the emotions. I closed my eyes twice to r... CRISTIAN ZORZI Facebook was founded on February 4th, 2004, and around February 5th, we were feeling pretty confiden... DUSTIN MOSKOVITZ Twitter and Tumblr and Facebook, it's so amazing because years ago, when I was growing up and wa... BYRON HOWARD It was not for no reason that he got a title of modern Facebook sage because, instead of giving serm... DR HITESH C SHETH My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this littl... PHILIP TREACY I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I'd send him a helmet, h... PEYTON MANNING The desire to do different things was the main motivator that made me leave late night because I'... ANDY RICHTER I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel no... EDEN PHILLPOTTS A band asked me to go on tour when I was 22 and asked me to play drums, and I taught myself so I cou... JANET WEISS I couldn’t be with people and I didn’t want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I ... MARIAN KEYES When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents... DAVID HENRIE I'd never watch a horror film, but after I found out I was going to be in one, I watched, like, ... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds lik... BETTY WHITE I want to be able to raise my kid. I was totally being a martyr about it at first, thinking I could ... KERI RUSSELL I was lost before I found her in my dreams, and she found me that day in the rain. I knew it seemed ... KAMI GARCIA My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He... MACAULAY CULKIN And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympi... OLGA KORBUT I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans. AVICII Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance... RICHARD STALLMAN From what I could see, nothing was happening. The only thing I found in my house that was worth taki... JOSEPH WILLIAMS Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dia... ELLEN DEGENERES I do believe the potential for ConnectU was as big as Facebook's, absolutely. CAMERON WINKLEVOSS I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil You... RAY LAMONTAGNE I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I fo... BEN DANIELS What I was hoping for is that we could see some kind of 'I'm sorry,' but we didn't get anything like... PAUL HOWELL To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little to... BILL CALLAHAN I was writing my Ph.D. in the late 1980s and was keeping an eye on what was happening in the world. ... BIDZINA IVANISHVILI Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was ... HAILEE STEINFELD It was a good three quarters of an hour after before I could see it. ANTHONY LUCAS Years ago I had realized I was blaming myself for it. People and doctors would tell me it wasn't my ... ROBERT ANTHONY I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for you... WALLACE SHAWN I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as ... RALPH FIENNES
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