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BEN MCLEMORE But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
DOUGLAS WOOD![]()
Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just ex...
JOHN MELLENCAMP![]()
My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'...
DOUG FLUTIE![]()
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.
GAYLE FORMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA I was happy. To be honest, I thought I was only 1-up coming to the last hole, not 2-up, so I figured...
MAX BUCKLEY He was the county medical examiner in Des Moines before he came here. There was a program there and ...
CARLA GRANSTROM I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I wa...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD![]()
The last time I was here I fell into the premiere, and I figured I had to redeem myself, ... I thoug...
SANDRA BULLOCK That's what I was doing in Portland. When I got up here, for some reason I wasn't doing it, I was tr...
DUSTIN PENNER![]()
I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Vict...
KEITH STANFIELD 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.
JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER![]()
I was born to be funny.
BUDDY HACKETT![]()
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961.
ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR![]()
I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I...
DWAYNE JOHNSON I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON![]()
Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place i...
BILL BRYSON I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I![]()
Beirut is where I was born and raised.
REEM ACRA I thought it was a good opportunity. I was [at Auburn] for a while, but I thought it was a great opp...
TROY PORCO I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, ...
JEFF ABBOTT I thought it was one of those games where he was going to go all the way, ... He was really pumped u...
MARIANO RIVERA I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD I was asked to push the ball up. Knowing that I had to make sure I was making the right decisions ? ...
BRIAN LATHAM My parents emigrated here when I was 5, so this is the city I grew up in.
ARJUN SABLOK I could tell when she took off. I was like, 'Oh, here it goes.' That was awesome. I was so excited. ...
SIDNEY SPENCER Our vault coach said that no one was changing their grip on the pole, and thought if it was OK to va...
DOUG FLOWER My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I wa...
ADEPERO ODUYE I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always u...
STEVE YZERMAN![]()
Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot...
ZACH JOHNSON I'm ecstatic for the kids. I had my seniors and my two assistants here when I got the call, and to s...
BART ROTHENBERGER![]()
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball.
BARRY BONDS I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC I was having fun. Snowboarding is fun. I was feeling great that I was ahead. I wanted to share with ...
LINDSEY JACOBELLIS![]()
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I...
ADAM BEACH![]()
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought...
PATRICK DEMPSEY![]()
Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mi...
GAYLE FORMAN I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers...
JOSIE LOREN 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as ...
ZACH MCGOWAN At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci...
FINN JONES I got kind of frustrated at the ref calling me for stalling, and I didn't really think I was stallin...
JACK MERITT![]()
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the wor...
YO-YO MA This is a very exciting place, ... The potential to do something here seemed to be really quite grea...
GLENN LOURY![]()
When I was playing and practicing in that heat in July and August in Miami with shoulder pads on, it...
LARRY CSONKA That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by the...
STEPHEN STILLS I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. T...
DARBY STANCHFIELD![]()
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984.
EZRA KOENIG![]()
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG![]()
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I...
KELSEA BALLERINI I was just in the right place at the right time. And Luke got to me right where I could put it in. I...
DEREK STEWART![]()
I was born in August, no July, 1908.
SATCHEL PAIGE![]()
I was born in the technology era.
MALUMA I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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.
CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ![]()
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.
STEVE CASE![]()
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.
JESSE JACKSON![]()
I was born into a family of preachers.
DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television.
DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church.
CHEECH MARIN Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up w...
DUSTIN LYNCH I was trying not to get my head down because it was three minutes in and I knew we had time to come ...
LINDSAY THOMPSON I was surprised they picked us. We'll be pumped up to play them and I think I a lot of kids will be ...
CODY ROGERS![]()
It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire - I thought up half of what...
RIC FLAIR I was scared 'cause I thought I was going to come up here and mess up. I thought I would not focus b...
DESARAE GARLAND It wasn't working on the inside, so I figured I better shoot on the outside. It was just my time to ...
BRITTANY WILKINS![]()
Coming to Houston was an opportunity that I couldn't pass up.
BROCK OSWEILER I thought I was better than him last year, really. The players on the team thought so too, but he wa...
REGGIE SHEFFIELD When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I...
JOVAN ADEPO When I landed off that jump, I hooked an edge. It was pretty abrupt. I lifted my ski up and when I d...
BODE MILLER I thought it was sprained at first, ... Then I tried to get up and walk on it, and I felt sick to my...
JOE NEWTON![]()
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I t...
KAZUO ISHIGURO It just came down to the fact that it was my home-town school. I grew up around here, it was the opp...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS![]()
I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too ...
SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT I grew up here, went to school here and it seems like Lebanon has just gone backwards. It's worse no...
BRUCE GRAY I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much...
EVAN PARKER I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.
DAVE FOLEY First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and ...
JAKE JOHNSON![]()
My daughter recommended Chris O'Dowd to me after seeing him in 'Bridesmaids,' so I watch...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST![]()
The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin...
CONNOR FRANTA I wanted to come out here and do exactly how I was training so I was happy with how I went. The crow...
HOLLIE DYKES![]()
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around...
QUEEN LATIFAH Oh, it was pounding. It was really, I thought someone was beating up inside our attic it was so loud...
CAROL TREMAINE When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on we...
CLIVE CUSSLER When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister a...
ANEURIN BARNARD![]()
I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunit...
TEDDY THOMPSON
QUINTON AARON I'm never going to forget Wellston. It's where I grew up. It's my heart and my pride. Th...
BEN MCLEMORE But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I was born in France. I grew up in Africa.
BENJAMIN MILLEPIED I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston.
DOUGLAS WOOD
Music was so important to the culture when I was growing up in the Sixties and Seventies. We just ex... JOHN MELLENCAMP
My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'... DOUG FLUTIE
Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug. GAYLE FORMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The first city I ever came to in the states was Des Moines. I was 12 and was in a boys' choir.
ST. LUCIA I was happy. To be honest, I thought I was only 1-up coming to the last hole, not 2-up, so I figured...
MAX BUCKLEY He was the county medical examiner in Des Moines before he came here. There was a program there and ...
CARLA GRANSTROM I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I wa...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD
The last time I was here I fell into the premiere, and I figured I had to redeem myself, ... I thoug... SANDRA BULLOCK That's what I was doing in Portland. When I got up here, for some reason I wasn't doing it, I was tr...
DUSTIN PENNER
I was born in San Bernardino in summer of '91 and grew up in Riverside, San Bernardino, and Vict... KEITH STANFIELD 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. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
GEORGETTE MOSBACHER
I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.
MELISSA AUF DER MAUR
I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I... DWAYNE JOHNSON I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
Much as I resented having to grow up in Des Moines, it gave me a real appreciation for every place i... BILL BRYSON I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I
Beirut is where I was born and raised. REEM ACRA I thought it was a good opportunity. I was [at Auburn] for a while, but I thought it was a great opp...
TROY PORCO I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, ...
JEFF ABBOTT I thought it was one of those games where he was going to go all the way, ... He was really pumped u...
MARIANO RIVERA I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD I was asked to push the ball up. Knowing that I had to make sure I was making the right decisions ? ...
BRIAN LATHAM My parents emigrated here when I was 5, so this is the city I grew up in.
ARJUN SABLOK I could tell when she took off. I was like, 'Oh, here it goes.' That was awesome. I was so excited. ...
SIDNEY SPENCER Our vault coach said that no one was changing their grip on the pole, and thought if it was OK to va...
DOUG FLOWER My first audition was an open call and I had no picture and no resume - that's how clueless I wa...
ADEPERO ODUYE I also feel I adapted. I was willing to try to fit into any role. The way I figured, it was always u...
STEVE YZERMAN
Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot... ZACH JOHNSON I'm ecstatic for the kids. I had my seniors and my two assistants here when I got the call, and to s...
BART ROTHENBERGER
I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. BARRY BONDS I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC I was having fun. Snowboarding is fun. I was feeling great that I was ahead. I wanted to share with ...
LINDSEY JACOBELLIS
With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I... ADAM BEACH
I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought... PATRICK DEMPSEY
Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mi... GAYLE FORMAN I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers...
JOSIE LOREN 'Cold Case' was fun. It was a fun experience. That was right when I was cutting my teeth as ...
ZACH MCGOWAN At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci...
FINN JONES I got kind of frustrated at the ref calling me for stalling, and I didn't really think I was stallin...
JACK MERITT
I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the wor... YO-YO MA This is a very exciting place, ... The potential to do something here seemed to be really quite grea...
GLENN LOURY
When I was playing and practicing in that heat in July and August in Miami with shoulder pads on, it... LARRY CSONKA That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by the...
STEPHEN STILLS I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. T...
DARBY STANCHFIELD
My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984. EZRA KOENIG
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I... KELSEA BALLERINI I was just in the right place at the right time. And Luke got to me right where I could put it in. I...
DEREK STEWART
I was born in August, no July, 1908. SATCHEL PAIGE
I was born in the technology era. MALUMA I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
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. CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. STEVE CASE
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON
I was born into a family of preachers. DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television.
DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church.
CHEECH MARIN Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY I picked Dad's guitar up when I was 8. It hurt to play, so I put it down and picked it back up w...
DUSTIN LYNCH I was trying not to get my head down because it was three minutes in and I knew we had time to come ...
LINDSAY THOMPSON I was surprised they picked us. We'll be pumped up to play them and I think I a lot of kids will be ...
CODY ROGERS
It's much more casual than it was, but my clothes and my ring attire - I thought up half of what... RIC FLAIR I was scared 'cause I thought I was going to come up here and mess up. I thought I would not focus b...
DESARAE GARLAND It wasn't working on the inside, so I figured I better shoot on the outside. It was just my time to ...
BRITTANY WILKINS
Coming to Houston was an opportunity that I couldn't pass up. BROCK OSWEILER I thought I was better than him last year, really. The players on the team thought so too, but he wa...
REGGIE SHEFFIELD When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I...
JOVAN ADEPO When I landed off that jump, I hooked an edge. It was pretty abrupt. I lifted my ski up and when I d...
BODE MILLER I thought it was sprained at first, ... Then I tried to get up and walk on it, and I felt sick to my...
JOE NEWTON
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I t... KAZUO ISHIGURO It just came down to the fact that it was my home-town school. I grew up around here, it was the opp...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS
I was the youngest child and the only son. I was expected to shine in academics. It seemed like too ... SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT I grew up here, went to school here and it seems like Lebanon has just gone backwards. It's worse no...
BRUCE GRAY I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much...
EVAN PARKER I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall.
DAVE FOLEY First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and ...
JAKE JOHNSON
My daughter recommended Chris O'Dowd to me after seeing him in 'Bridesmaids,' so I watch... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
The first time I got recognized in public was at a movie theater. It was at the 'Lord of the Rin... CONNOR FRANTA I wanted to come out here and do exactly how I was training so I was happy with how I went. The crow...
HOLLIE DYKES
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH Oh, it was pounding. It was really, I thought someone was beating up inside our attic it was so loud...
CAROL TREMAINE When I first started writing, I was in advertising at the time, I was doing most of my writing on we...
CLIVE CUSSLER When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister a...
ANEURIN BARNARD
I went to a boarding school when I was 13, and it was a very arty school, so there was an opportunit... TEDDY THOMPSON
I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway. 
I take class at the Groundlings, and my personal coach is Lesley Kahn. 
I worked in theater my whole life. My mom was a drama teacher at my middle school. In high school, I... 