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My childhood was great, my family was great. I wasn't in a mansion, but we made it work. RITA ORA 'The Godfather' illustrated the family values - the reality that it was really a family thin...
FRANK VINCENT Even when my parents were together, they both had to travel and work, and it wasn't like they ha...
GEORGIA JAGGER Then when I finished it was like everyone was OK because I wasn?t hurt.
DAVID KNOX
It ends or it doesn't.That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL
We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked ... BEN E. KING
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It ... JOHN IRVING It wasn't really part of the program in the Perot family. Rebellion was not an option.
ROSS PEROT, JR. It was an OK quarter from the top line perspective, but the results were weaker than expected, large...
ERIC BOSSHARD I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN
I started to realise that it wasn't for me. Perhaps I didn't have to give my Hamlet before I... ERIC MCCORMACK
I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, w... BRYAN ADAMS I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that spee...
ED WESTWICK I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.
KIESZA It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
CAITLIN ROSE You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, &#...
DAMIAN LEWIS
If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO... J. K. ROWLING
Those songs are about getting out; they're not about getting out of family. It wasn't about ... BOB GELDOF I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a ...
TOM STURRIDGE I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.
CARROT TOP That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my ...
MANUEL MOROUN My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.
JOHN DARNIELLE
I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i... LEA MICHELE
Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and culture... BOB COUSY
When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dysle... HENRY WINKLER I really wanted to get drafted by the Knicks, and it was a dream come true. I wasn't even hearin...
KRISTAPS PORZINGIS I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never b...
KATE BUSH
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more cleve...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, i...
KARL MALONE It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
BARRY SHEENE
I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub ... PAUL STANLEY I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn&...
TY DOLLA SIGN I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it wa...
KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS
The NBA wasn't a big deal at that time, so it wasn't really in my career plans. BOB COUSY I wasn't prepared to get a mammogram until I was 40 years old, like I'd been told. I never i...
GIULIANA RANCIC It was a beautiful experience for her, the experience that she had that she confesses. It wasn't...
ANDREW MCCARTHY It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody...
TROMBONE SHORTY
It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes. JO BRAND
I know I wasn't as handsome as some other guys, but I was OK with that. PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN
The thing that started the peace movement in Ireland was anger - my anger. It wasn't anger; it w... BETTY WILLIAMS It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high ...
MARY CHENEY We grew up in a middle-class family in Chicago. Even when we went on vacation as a family, it wasn&#...
SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO
I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul... ALISTAIR BROWNLEE
If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable. CARRIE FISHER When I was young, it wasn't about the money, it wasn't about the fame and fortune, it was ab...
VICTOR CRUZ My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it ra...
MISTY COPELAND My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I was...
PAMELA ADLON My goal was never to withhold information; my goal was to make sure everything was accurate, and fre...
CHERYL MILLS It wasn't a tough decision. I was ready for the NFL, ... My family was OK with it.
JOSH BULLOCKS 'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't po...
WILLIAM J. MANN I was signed to a record label when I was younger. I was in a group, and I just wasn't - persona...
TIKA SUMPTER Music, in Mexico, just wasn't working out. So, I fell into acting and I just fell in love with i...
ADAN CANTO
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore. CALVIN JOHNSON
Understand that life is journey. I haven't achieved the success I wanted to achieve yet, but tha... ADRIENNE BAILON
I was just a goofy little funny kid, who was always getting sent to the principal. It wasn't ser... J. COLE
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers. STEVE WOZNIAK I wasn't born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.
YOHAN BLAKE
I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's lik... LARRY BIRD
My dad was young; he went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It was... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when...
GARRY HYNES
I had between 20 and 40 songs for 'Detox,' and I just couldn't feel it. Usually, I can h... DR. DRE The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can tu...
TANANARIVE DUE I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
TANANARIVE DUE Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage ...
TANANARIVE DUE As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black cha...
TANANARIVE DUE I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try t...
TANANARIVE DUE I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, y...
TANANARIVE DUE I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered...
TANANARIVE DUE One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the e...
TANANARIVE DUE I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that proc...
TANANARIVE DUE I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in co...
TANANARIVE DUE I started out with almost entirely black fans except for a little handful of people in the horror wr...
TANANARIVE DUE Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
TANANARIVE DUE Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or o...
TANANARIVE DUE My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiti...
TANANARIVE DUE
As we all know, when you're an athlete things are a little bit easier for you. It didn't mea... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families.
VICTORIA GOTTI When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS
In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was abou... COLIN HAY
We're not much of a camping family. When I was in Cub Scouts, we went camping once, and my dad s... CHANDLER RIGGS
I didn't realize Metallica was as big as they were. I just thought it was my buddy Kirk's ba... LES CLAYPOOL
I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What ... FERGIE The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.
JOHN SEBASTIAN
My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't. AARON PAUL Volleyball was a lot of fun, but I knew it wasn't my sport.
ELENA DELLE DONNE When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as ...
BINOD CHAUDHARY
It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it w... PETER CAPALDI
I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for ... MALLORY JANSEN
I wasn't delusional at all when I signed on to do 'Furious 7,' that it wasn't my cre... JAMES WAN The first thing my writing ever earned me wasn't an advance on a book; it wasn't a fee for a...
DANA STABENOW I wasn't prepared for the fact that grief is so unpredictable. It wasn't just sadness, and i...
MEGHAN O'ROURKE I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I w...
AZITA GHANIZADA
What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every ... JACQUELINE BISSET
I started a novel back in high school. It wasn't very good. It was the opposite of good. The wri... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realiz...
EMMY ROSSUM
It's been real weird. It wasn't how I expected my life to turn out. Especially, mainly perta... JACK OSBOURNE Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any ...
ALAN JACKSON As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS
