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For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long la... ALFRED SCHNITTKE I was born singing. My father tells this story about when I was 3 weeks old, how I would rock in the...
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When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room... EMMA STONE
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When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn... JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, ...
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What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER As a kid, I loved leading 'dance camp' in my garage for the neighborhood kids. I would chore...
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I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat... CARSON WENTZ I actually started singing country music at 4 years old, right when I started learning how to sing. ...
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MEGHAN RYAN My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
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FRIDA GIANNINI
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC My father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc...
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RYAN SEACREST
When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don... LARRY KING I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sen...
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For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I&#... DANIEL RADCLIFFE I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
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I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a ... MICKEY ROONEY Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a countr...
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I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from Califo... HENRY KRAVIS
My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign ... HARRY CONNICK, JR. When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through...
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I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This wa... JOHN MALKOVICH
My mum - and my granny and I - would close the curtains, turn on the TV and snuggle up and watch ... CHERIE LUNGHI My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people ...
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When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to au... JACQUELINE EMERSON
In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. P... JACKIE CHAN When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A ...
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ARRON OBERHOLSER
I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get. RODNEY DANGERFIELD The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything ...
MARGUERITE YOUNG When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I...
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