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I was really into punk. I was 11 years old; I had a blue mohican.


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SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. ...
PATTI SMITH I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days.
CRISTIANO RONALDO I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.
YANNICK NOAH I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 year...
DRAKE BELL I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender.
LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star.
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GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny.
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BUZZ OSBORNE I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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YANA KUDRYAVTSEVA I was raised thinking that the world would end in 1975 - that Armageddon would come when I was 18 ye...
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MALUMA I was born with an evil face.
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DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule.
NELSON MANDELA I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.
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MICHAEL J. FOX I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I was weirdly obsessed with music until I was 11, and then I turned into a nerd.
SIA Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearin...
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JACK ANTONOFF I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.
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WILLIE NELSON I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.
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CAROLINE LELAND 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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VANILLA ICE The Mohican was nowhere near. The water was calm.
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DAVID CASSIDY The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
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BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT