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EMILY PFERDEHIRT Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real care...
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I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a... SEAN BERDY I feel like he really helped me grow up. I came here young, fresh out of high school and he really t...
MARSHALL STRICKLAND I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m...
BIG SEAN My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age.
CANDACE PARKER I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said '...
CASSIE STEELE I was two small to be a lineman and to slow to be skills position player, some players like me just ...
BRIAN WELLS Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS
I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very youn... GARTH NIX
Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of ... TREY ANASTASIO I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y...
CHARLIE EBERSOL
There was a woman in Tunisia called Madame Pinot. She was a midwife and had helped in the birth of m... AZZEDINE ALAIA I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age,...
JAMES COSTOS I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou...
BEL POWLEY That's where I got my exposure to scouts and that's where I learned to develop my skills. Tommy took...
MATT BELISLE
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had t... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall...
LAURA TROTT My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry...
RUDOLPH A. MARCUS Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
GARY LARSON My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had n...
ALAN GARNER
Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powe... THALIA
Every time I've had to do journalistic investigations, I've cursed, but later I discovered t... ITALO CALVINO I never had a problem shooting the ball since I began shooting at a young age. Dribbling and defense...
BRANDON MOTON
From a very young age, I suspected there was more to my world than I could see: somewhere in the str... ORHAN PAMUK
There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlie... NIKKI ROWE Outside of class, Knouff has helped me guide my studies at Keene State College in preparation for gr...
JENNIFER CARR I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from h...
DEBBIE MACOMBER
I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it betw... MORDECAI RICHLER
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very ... DONNA TARTT After graduation I plan on substituting in Jackson Township schools as an elementary school teacher....
MELISSA ALLEN
When I was at school, I was in choirs more than anything else, from a very young age, about 9 years ... BEN BARNES I would like to develop my writing skills and work on pulling my family together (to) create an albu...
BRIGETTE BRANNAN I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were ve...
NAVEEN ANDREWS I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL I had a pretty untraditional high school experience. I've been acting since I was very young.
DAN BYRD
...all these things were part of the business of dreams. He had learned not to laugh at the advertis... NATHANAEL WEST Going to Chicago was a good experience for me, ... I was advised that one year back in school, to de...
DIJON THOMPSON
I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I... MICHAEL CUDLITZ
I have been writing poetry for a long time now. I started writing in my school days. KAPIL SIBAL
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age. CAITLYN JENNER I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great s...
OMAR SY I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. The...
DAISY FUENTES I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me.
ERIK HASSLE I was having problems because [Augusta Chairman ] Cliff Roberts and [and former U. S. President ] Ge...
CARL JACKSON I remember, in school, writing Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson and asking them to come get me out ...
MISSY ELLIOTT I was very self-conscious about my body from a young age. At school, I played football and netball a...
BRYONY SHAW I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interes...
HAROLD H. GREENE I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
JACK GLEESON In many ways, journalism school and culinary school are quite similar. They both teach fundamental s...
KATHLEEN FLINN I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an intere...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE
I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... MANDY MOORE It's a great opportunity for our young players to develop their skills.
DAVE RUBIO
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my ... BENAZIR BHUTTO I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. Howe...
PETER CAREY
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a ve... DELTA GOODREM Her house is looking like a florist's and she's very much enjoying it. She's very philosophical abou...
GILLY PENROSE Her house is looking like a florist's and she's very much enjoying it. She's very philosophical abou...
GILLY PENROSE I'm a big believer in my faith, and I actually believe God helped me make the decision to come to No...
BRADY QUINN I'm a big believer in my faith and I actually believe God helped me make the decision to come to Not...
BRADY QUINN Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a s...
JENNA DEWAN From the time he stepped on the field, my career took off. He was already going to be a star. He hel...
LAVERANUES COLES My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, an...
THEO ROSSI
Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, oft... BARRY RITHOLTZ The reason I always loved 'The Omen' so much, and what has always been scariest to me, is an...
KADEE STRICKLAND It took me a while to learn that certain people may have important skills that are not always blazin...
KATHARINE GRAHAM The trip to Madagascar helped me with my dental education. I learned so much more being there than i...
LARISSA FIGARI I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other ...
ANDY DALY When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn...
CARLA HALL I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me. Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I u...
JENNA DEWAN I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massi...
EDWARD CAREY Someone did this for me when I was young, ... Someone - I don't know who - started a community garde...
DIANE MILLER I'm just enjoying the moment. The guys really congratulated me when we came off the floor and said h...
CHUCK HAYES This little girl ... came home from school, and a minute later he went back to the house,
STEVE DIXON There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world...
BENJAMIN BOOKER
Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research semina... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Even when I was much younger, whatever I did, I wanted to do it to the best of my abilities. When I ...
EUGENIE BOUCHARD
I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for every... GARY JOHNSON
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age ... MATTHEW MODINE
Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and fin... DEAN KAMEN It helped me a lot. It helped me realize that I wanted to be a pediatrician and gave me the skills t...
JUAN OLVERA
I've probably been writing songs in Nashville longer than anybody. My first co-writer was Andrew Jac... BILL ANDERSON The Force has been able to challenge elementary age to high school age students all over the world a...
DAVID MCCLURE
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e... GWENDOLYN BROOKS We're seeing loss of interest in school at a younger and younger age.
LACY ASBILL Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through...
ADRIAN PETERSON I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
PATRICIA POLACCO
It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart becau... HELEN KELLER
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 Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?&#...
RAELYNN I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at sch...
NASIM PEDRAD
From a very young age, I would fall off the bed and wake up on the floor because of dreams. I have a... AYELET ZURER
I had a lot of trouble in school to begin with. I got left back in kindergarten, and I was in specia... JESSE BALL
When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I se... 
Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel. 
Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and e... 
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. 
He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. 
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the ener... 
Men are every bit as gendered as women. 
Typical news accounts and commentaries about school shootings and rampage killings rarely mention ge... 
During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Re... 
I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain. 
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mand... 
I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about... 
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportu... 
New Zealand is not a small country but a large village. 
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa... 
I want to have a normal high-school experience. 
A lot of people don't like me. 
We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and... 
I would love to have a rapper on one of my songs, like Ludacris, or the 'it's so hot in here... 
Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have. 
When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs ... 