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My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh...
JOAN COLLINS That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my ...
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NATALIA VODIANOVA My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ...
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That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and...
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We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our chi...
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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN
My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptiv... MICHAEL FRANTI
We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children... OLIVER TAMBO
I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she n... DONALD JOHANSON
I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the... DENNIS QUAID I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her wh...
BILLY PORTER I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plent...
DAMIAN LEWIS
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
KIKI DEE My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a...
MARTIN DONOVAN
When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best. IRINA SHAYK
My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head... ALICE WALKER
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH
My mom was essentially a single mother raising three boys. If anyone could have had any reason to gi... CHUCK NORRIS I hated all my life. I hated everybody. When I first grew up and I can remember, I was dressed as a ...
HENRY LEE LUCAS In many ways, everything about my upbringing decreed that I wouldn't write a memoir because in t...
MARGO JEFFERSON
I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the wor... PHILIP ZIMBARDO I grew up in Columbia, Maryland, a planned community built during the sixties. During the early year...
MICHAEL CHABON My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
DEAN STOCKWELL
My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ... JOHN PIPER
I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I ha... ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confu...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD
Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew... CASSANDRA CLARE
I grew up in Nacogdoches, Texas... raised by my grandmother. We were very poor and had no indoor plu... ALANA STEWART
I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Su... AL SHARPTON I grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have ho...
WENDI DENG MURDOCH
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ... RIDLEY SCOTT
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a ... WILLIAM GIBSON It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...
EUDORA WELTY I grew up in a house that was always happy, and my family was always music, music. I started playing...
RONALDINHO
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER
I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had ... CRAIG T. NELSON I grew up at 'All My Children;' I got married, had a daughter and made life-long friends the...
EVA LARUE I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father h...
MONA SIMPSON
I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. BETH HENLEY
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix... TREVOR NOAH I grew up on what everybody called a plantation - but believe me, it wasn't a plantation. It was...
SAM PHILLIPS
There's something strange - not in a bad way - about going back to where you grew up or recreati... ETHAN COEN My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.
DONALD E. WESTLAKE I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had lef...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD I grew up with great values and tremendous opportunities, ... I want my three kids and other's peopl...
JOE RICKETTS
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in ... ANNE LAMOTT
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country. GARRETT HEDLUND We grew up like sisters. My children call her their aunt.
ELAINE GAMPEL In the case of these two siblings I was really interested in exploring how two people who grew up in...
HOPE DAVIS
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... DARREN ARONOFSKY I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put mak...
JAMES NESBITT
I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us... OMARI HARDWICK She grew up playing against boys in Hawaii, so it's very natural to her. She's used to playing with ...
B. J. WIE
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS
That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing an... DONNA MILLS My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping ...
BROOKLYN DECKER
My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhanc... FRANCOIS NARS
Well, I think if I had married a different woman I would of had a very different life. She was my pa... LEE KUAN YEW
My grandmother spoiled my father rotten, and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. Wh... JOAN COLLINS That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my ...
MANUEL MOROUN I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to colle...
DAVID ALAN GRIER My mother desperately wanted children. She had a child that was stillborn - something I learned when...
STANLEY HAUERWAS I grew up missing my mom while she was right in front of me.
MAGGIE GEORGIANA YOUNG
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and... CAROLINE KENNEDY I think it was very good for her because she ended up going to high school for only three years and ...
ANDREA HALL I've always been a fan of Johnny Cash. I grew up in the country picking cotton. ... All we had was a...
GARY LOPEZ
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w...
NATALIA VODIANOVA My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ...
ALISON BECHDEL I grew up in Oklahoma, a redneck state. When I realized I was gay, I really had to hide and be very ...
ALAN STARK
That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and... KATHRYN STOCKETT
We grew up together so it was nice to lead our countries against one another, DAVID BECKHAM I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a s...
ANDREW J. FEUSTEL This house I grew up in was built in the 1800s, and the back yard was like a cemetery. Naturally, I ...
ADAM WINGARD
When I was quite young, she was working in a hardware store, so I grew up knowing about hardware. ELIZABETH MOON
When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was im... EMILIA FOX
When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, a... LISA LOEB
I grew up all over Idaho - I was born in Emmett, a very small town. AARON PAUL It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.
BRIDGET ASHER Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of Lo...
PATSY KENSIT It was great. She never got behind. All her pitches were on today. I think she grew up as a pitcher ...
MAX HILL When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr...
NINA ARIANDA There was something very personal about shooting it here because we all grew up here. The writers al...
BEN REKHI
We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our chi... EMILY DICKINSON We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to ...
TREVOR RABIN
I was addicted to the original 'Star Trek' when I was growing up, because of my dad. We grew... KATEE SACKHOFF
My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve... FRANCOIS NARS We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was...
WOOD HARRIS My grandma was actually a pretty well-known opera singer in Cuba, and then my mom was a ballerina. T...
FRANKIE J. ALVAREZ
I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I. ISABEL LUCAS I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survi...
JOSH PAIS I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ Congo, my country, has the largest forest in Africa, maybe the second-largest in the world. I was bo...
CORNEILLE EWANGO I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted ...
KAROLYN GRIMES
I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was th... LARRY WILMORE
I'm a black belt in karate. I grew up on the outskirts of Paris, and it was rough. ELODIE YUNG I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe...
CAROLL SPINNEY
I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 peop... VERNE TROYER Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had ...
SAFFRON ALDRIDGE There was something very personal about shooting it here because we all grew up here. The writers al...
BEN REKHI
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