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These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - a... GIADA DE LAURENTIIS I gave him this story about my aunt and uncle (Anna and Vinnie) who had a little cafe in the Federal...
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Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this ama... GRAHAM MOORE
We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When th... ELIZA DUSHKU What was my baby thinking when he was down on the ground and they were doing those things to him? Wa...
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There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I... PAULA DEEN
It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can. R. LEE ERMEY I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue c...
JOE PISCOPO
When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember tal... BEN SCHNETZER When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is t...
ROZ CHAST This stinks. Why is my mom is making me come to school on Saturday?
JANIS SLATTERY I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I ha...
LEE SMITH When I took this program over, I told these parents that I was going to take care of those young men...
JAMES STILL
Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us... TITO JACKSON It was awkward because the high school that I went to, my aunt taught at, it was this private boy...
IAN HARDING Everybody was there. A bachelor aunt or uncle. You would all come to the table, even some stone-deaf...
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KATIE CHANG
I would have rebelled against parental authority, no matter what. When I was 15, I started painting ... GRACE JONES
When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over t... JULIA STILES
Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emera... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN
There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we w... QUEEN LATIFAH
I remember admiring my aunt's - my mom's sister's - fashion, which was very feminine and... STEPHANIE SIGMAN She and my uncle were very sociable and would have a lot of people over at night to play cards or wh...
LOUISE FLETCHER I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over pe...
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Sometimes, when full and in fear that I will continue to eat unwanted food just because it's sta... RACHEL NICHOLS
My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ... TAYLOR SWIFT
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with ... BERNARD ARNAULT
I remember making my own dog food and feeling very fulfilled by it, then by day four I was over it. CHRISSY TEIGEN We were hitting the ball hard, and Toledo was making the plays. Even when we were being no-hit, I th...
PAUL MAINIERI
Whenever something went wrong when I was young - if I had a pimple or if my hair broke - my mom woul... MAYA ANGELOU
One thing my mom taught me was that when you're making deviled eggs, flip the eggs over the nigh... TRISHA YEARWOOD If John Lennon was right that life is what happens when you're making other plans, parenthood is wha...
KELLY CORRIGAN I tried to assure her that ... we would sit down and go over her bills and work some plan out. This ...
TRISHA JOHNSON We found there are quite a large number of people who were sold on the Mac and wanted to move over, ...
BRIAN CROLL
Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head ... ZUBIN MEHTA
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN When I was younger, I used to pray that I would die before my mom. That's just how much my mom m...
DAK PRESCOTT
When I was a kid, I would come home from school, and my mom would buy the industrial-size Famous Amo... JOHNNY IUZZINI What we would like to see is Tony Blair making a public statement of concern over these issues.
ALISON REYNOLDS I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic wa...
CHARLIE HADEN You know, it was an amazing thing from my own perspective, ... I appear white. When you had mixed-ra...
DOLORES JOHNSON When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and pl...
LEA SALONGA When I was a child it was very clear what I was allowed to see and what I was not allowed to see and...
YUL VAZQUEZ
I was a bio major, and I was going to take over my aunt's dental practice and be a dentist. MICHAEL STEGER
In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attractin... DELTA BURKE I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go ...
DINA KUCERA
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T
My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, ... BRIE LARSON I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - fol...
ADRIAN TOMINE I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to ...
CARLENE CARTER I said, I dont think so. I had an aunt and uncle here but they died 10 years ago, ... She aske...
KAREN TEMPLETON We didn't make hardly any shots (in the first half), but we were stopping them. And then when we sta...
JAJUAN SMITH
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. BARRY WHITE Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always ca...
DAVID GRANN My mom told us never to reveal that we were Shia in school. You would find out that some other kid w...
KUMAIL NANJIANI I told them they would make a run - now that's it - the run is over. We didn't fold up and I was pro...
ANNIE BASIC The last day of shooting, there were tears. It was this family that's grown together over the ye...
DAVID HEYMAN
I supported Obama because of his relationships. A lot of the things he believes in, you would say th... DWYANE WADE When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they...
WYCLEF JEAN
I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my t... VANESSA HUDGENS
Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like...
BYRON HOWARD He came such a long way. When we were younger, he would come out here and throw the ball a ton. Thro...
BRYAN MCCLENDON I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tast...
JEN KIRKMAN
In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it'... DAVID FRIEDMAN
I have great faith that Heaven's there and I'll see my brothers and my mom and dad when I ge... ERNIE HARWELL
My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ... CHARLIE ROWE Have you noticed...when we assume something that we are usually wrong? It's like making a bad bet th...
WILLIAM PAISLEY
Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's ... DEBI MAZAR When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be a...
RICO RODRIGUEZ We all knew what we were going over to do. We all hoped nobody would get hurt, but that illusion was...
CAPT. PAUL LYON Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was makin...
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From that point on, I would refer to him as "your uncle" and he would mostly refer to me as "your au... JENNY ZHANG We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he...
STEVE KANALY
If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she'... ACTION BRONSON
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DEYTH BANGER
My last two records that I made were both quite pointed in one direction and I think I do my best st... VINCE GILL When she was 12 years old, the furthest they would stand from her was about three to four feet. They...
GARY GILCHRIST
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing ... J. J. ABRAMS When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents...
DAVID HENRIE
This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would ... HAMISH BOWLES
My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing so...
DAN BYRD At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggre...
YANDEL
And if my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle. TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO
It's so funny because my mom is Thai and my dad is this big American guy - and our food tastes w... CHRISSY TEIGEN Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears all the rappers, they're doing my dances and they're makin...
CHUBBY CHECKER When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, ...
JACK HANDY When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in...
BECKY LYNCH
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Gree... JOHN UPDIKE My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and ...
ELISE BROACH It's a bad idea. These medications come from all over the world. They come without FDA [federal Food...
HOWARD SCHIFF I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
AARON CARTER It would be easy to blame Hollywood to say that I was typed and forced to play the same role over an...
SAL MINEO
My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, bu... RICHARD CARMONA
