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It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be. LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
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What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER
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My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... JOE GIBBS Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way f...
TAYLOR HICKS I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my moth...
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When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all... MARLO THOMAS I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I was...
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My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion ... PINK
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE
Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what positi... EZEKIEL ELLIOTT
You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought ... PALOMA FAITH My eyes lingered on her naked body for several minutes. Was our relationship what she wanted? Was it...
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Everyone else could get through to my mother: all they had to do was dial a number and wait for her ... SARAH DESSEN
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This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I did... KELLEY ARMSTRONG All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
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So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so...
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JAYE DAVIDSON I was crying. It was like my momma beat me with a bat. I couldn't get up.
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I wanted to be a vet when I was little, so it never really dawned on me that acting was my career, i... JENNA USHKOWITZ From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR I studied law at Columbia, but I was more interested in why people committed crimes than I was in de...
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I wanted to keep him away from her - but ...
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NORMAN LAMM I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
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