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I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa... VICTOR MITCHELL I started out in New York, and New York has a way of countering a Southern accent, naturally; when I...
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HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI
Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was hap... OLGA KORBUT
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MISTY COPELAND My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
EDGAR RAMIREZ I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on...
DASCHA POLANCO
My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher edu... GERTRUDE B. ELION So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple f...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL
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JACK HERER I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was f...
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There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the mi... PHIL KLAY In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, ...
AAGE BOHR
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LINDA EASTMAN MCCARTNEY
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS Woody Allen stayed so good because he never left New York. Howard Stern stayed so good because he ne...
ARTIE LANGE
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.&#... ALBERT BROOKS
Every once in a while, I run into somebody who tells me that she met her husband in my campaign or a... GEORGE MCGOVERN The short story and the truth is that I was taking vocal lessons here in New York... One day, instea...
LESLEY GORE Qinghua was first established as a preparatory school in 1911. In 1928, it became a university. In 1...
CHEN-NING YANG
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CHRIS BOHJALIAN
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ELLISE CLARK
My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You kno... J. R. MARTINEZ
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. DIANE LANE
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TIM BLAKE NELSON Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bri...
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WENDY E. LONG I've done so many jobs. As an actor, you have to. I didn't have my parents footing the bill ...
MICHAEL KELLY He moved there in 1937.
ANTHONY ROSSELLI Coach came in and evaluated film and moved a couple of guys, ... but he said he liked my aggressiven...
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And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked i... RUBEN BLADES
In New York, my dad raised me to listen to everything like hip-hop, rock and country music. When I m... POST MALONE
Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid. GARTH RISK HALLBERG My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc...
AUDREY MEADOWS I moved to L.A. after my landlord in Brooklyn tripled my rent. I spent months looking for other plac...
DAVE SITEK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble fa...
MIGUEL COTTO
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and h... E. L. KONIGSBURG I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were j...
ANITA WEISS I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bri...
HUGO WEAVING
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. DAVID JOHANSEN I was impressed with the campaign for Bombay Sapphire; it's really original. Someone said, 'I know t...
TRUDIE STYLER My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.
DAVID GREGORY
We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitc... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York. PATRICK EWING
My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he... DENIS LEARY
I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of ... NICK JONAS When I was a kid, while touring East Berlin - back when there was an East Berlin - I got my left foo...
KEVIN BLEYER
Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love... ALAFAIR BURKE I moved to Edmonton in 1950. I left for a period of three years, 62. 63, 64 when I worked in Toronto...
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By the time I started high school, I knew I wanted to be a writer. After graduating from Smith Colle... CYNTHIA VOIGT
I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre... EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my da...
ARI MILLEN I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play ...
BROOKS ROBINSON
After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prev... BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
I married my first boyfriend. We just married too young. No children. So that broke up. There were a... LIANE MORIARTY
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I marr...
DIANE HENDRICKS My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ...
JOE LHOTA
When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphan... WAYNE DYER I moved to New York City when I was 20 years old, started making movies non-stop. I didn't have ...
CASEY NEISTAT 'One Tree Hill' really had an impact on my life. It was the first time I left my house and m...
DANIELLA ALONSO [On the televised] New York Friars Club Roast of Hugh Hefner, ... I'm glad Courtney Love is here. I ...
COURTNEY LOVE
I moved to New York in '92 and got my graduate degree in acting from NYU - they have a great act... DAVID COSTABILE I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college ...
ABBI JACOBSON
Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in Ne... H. G. BISSINGER When I joined New Order, I was made to feel equal to everyone else in the band so I didn't feel ...
GILLIAN GILBERT
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12.... ALAN RICKMAN
I do a lot of video games - I have a YouTube channel where I record me playing video games with my f... 
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right butto... 
I just went and saw 'Crazy, Stupid, Love.' Julianne Moore - I've been in love with her s... 
It is not a fragrant world. 
Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it. 
Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up. 
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Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible amounts of disparate... 
I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun. 
I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head... 
I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage. 
In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen. 
I would laugh at all my provincial inmates, but I’m too busy lusting. I’m not usually interested... 