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Abollah?"
"Ya."
"Kalau aku sudah besar nanti, akankah aku tinggal bersamamu?"<...
KHALED HOSSEINI![]()
Aku akan membawanya pulang, pikir Baba Ayub ketika itu juga. Inilah yang paling diinginkannya, bersa...
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STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN
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KATE BUSH
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy. GABBY DOUGLAS Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in...
IMELDA MAY My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were Fren...
ALEXIS DENISOF I think I'm part of the last generation of songwriters that are really influenced by where they grew...
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KATHLEEN BATTLE
Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, c... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was... VAL KILMER This time, we kind of took the inspiration from the old Wolfman Jack border radio and how he influen...
JOE ELY Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad wor...
SAM BARRY I came from a middle-class family. My dad was a professor; my mom was a nurse. I didn't come fro...
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LIONEL RICHIE Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brothe...
AL JARDINE
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to ... TERRI WINDLING Doug was born and raised in Louisiana and came from a very poor family. They didn't have much.
LAWRIE MANTWELL For me, writing music is kind of like a musical mirror where I write music and learn about myself in...
DANIEL TRUEMAN GS I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said '...
CASSIE STEELE I love punk rock, The Clash, The Ramones, The Cramps. I love where it all came from, and music for m...
IMELDA MAY
For me, it's about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and ... BEYONCE KNOWLES I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano te...
AUDRA MCDONALD My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into...
ANTON CORBIJN The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.
DAVID MUTTI CLARK It came from my passion to keep the music itself alive.
BOB EVERHART I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I ...
NAYVADIUS CASH Most came from Texas, but about 150 cyclists from across the world also signed up. They come to us f...
JAMES BLACK I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.
VIKTOR YANUKOVYCH It's so special for me to be an Irishman on this day. I'm a first generation Irish American, my moth...
SEAN HENNESSEY Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo...
DANIEL OJEDA I came from this very traditional background and I benefited hugely from feminism. I felt privileged...
DENISE MINA
I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in t... BOB BECKEL We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to ...
TREVOR RABIN It's very exciting. This is my first musical and I'm very proud to present my music from the last 30...
FRANK FARIAN
I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul. OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started ...
BLAKE MICHAEL
Dia berhenti bicara kepada warga desa, karena dia yakin bahwa mereka menggunjingkannya di belakang p... KHALED HOSSEINI
Kau tak tahu apa-apa soal keberanian. Untuk menjadi berani, harus ada yang dipertaruhkan. Aku datang... KHALED HOSSEINI
Katamu kau tak punya keberanian. tapi aku melihatnya di dalam dirimu. Perbuatanmu, beban yang kau ta... KHALED HOSSEINI
Abollah?""Ya."
"Kalau aku sudah besar nanti, akankah aku tinggal bersamamu?"<...
KHALED HOSSEINI
Aku akan membawanya pulang, pikir Baba Ayub ketika itu juga. Inilah yang paling diinginkannya, bersa... KHALED HOSSEINI
Kulihat peri kecil muramDi keteduhan pohon kertas.
Kumengenal peri kecil muram
Yang ...
KHALED HOSSEINI
Ada sebongkah batu di pinggir ladangnya, dan dia duduk di permukaannya yang datar. Dia kerap duduk d... KHALED HOSSEINI
Dan jika kau miskin, penderitaan menjadi mata uangmu. KHALED HOSSEINI
Mereka bernasib naas, memiliki ayah yang lemah. Seorang pengecut yang lebih memilih melihat mereka s... KHALED HOSSEINI
Seruas jari harus dipotong untuk menyelamatkan tangan. KHALED HOSSEINI
Jika kau sudah hidup selama aku, kau akan mengerti bahwa kekejaman dan kemuliaan hanyalah nuansa yan... KHALED HOSSEINI My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.
CASEY JAMES My education in film music came from watching tons of films,
DANNY ELFMAN When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piec...
AUDRA MCDONALD
We have had so much of the same background, our musical background and where we came from, and what ... GEORGE HARRISON I was taught at an early age to be humble, ... All my family taught me that. You can't forget where ...
BRYSON SUMLIN I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.
TOM SIZEMORE My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to...
FLEUR EAST My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN
My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. Th... BRUNO MARS
My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we tr... MATISYAHU My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time ...
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NATALIA TENA
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around ... KURT VONNEGUT
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brake... MICKEY ROONEY
I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I... JOHN GREEN
I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. . . . My family comes from the west coast, so whenev... BILLY CONNOLLY
The artistic side of our family was very important because one person encourages the other. It was a... DAVE DAVIES
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style... LAURA MVULA My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well...
RICHIE HAVENS Post-minimalism implies music that's genre-less. Minimalism was very important because it came a...
MAYA BEISER
My dad was a crazy person, but some of the best qualities about me came from him. JILLIAN MICHAELS I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississi...
ROBBIE ROBERTSON Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father&#...
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LARA PULVER My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lo...
USHER I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fidd...
RENEE FLEMING
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit...
MADHUR BHANDARKAR I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
ABBE PIERRE Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
JANEL PARRISH I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sound...
ENNIO MORRICONE Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all th...
LEE SMITH When I started to make music at the end of the '90s, I saw myself highly influenced by hip-hop a...
STEVEN SATER Some of the recipes came from my family, or I just figured it out from how my family made things. Bu...
MARTHA GREENLAW
In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grav... AARON NEVILLE I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
COCO LEE
I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invi... ELLIE GOULDING It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody...
TROMBONE SHORTY My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be e...
AUBREY PLAZA I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH I've been playing music for a long time. I play my music to keep busy. I play my music to keep out o...
WESLEY WILLIS When we started, I guess it came down to the fact that our connections were there, our heart was in ...
ANNIE WOLAVER I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which...
AIDAN QUINN
Besides, I came from the eighties, a neon, hair-sprayed decade from which very little music made it ... JONATHAN TROPPER I was essentially raised on blues music. My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby...
HOZIER When I found out she was going, I had to do something special for her. Because music is her love, it...
AMY BEHELER
I'm a hip-hop head, but hip-hop actually introduced me to other genres of music because I starte... LIL REL HOWERY I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ...
DANNY ELFMAN
I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I ... CHELSEA LEYLAND I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunte...
GEORG SOLTI I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpo...
DAVID SMALL Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi...
STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN
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