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I have dreamed about being a mother since I was 12 years old, and there's n... EVANGELINE LILLY Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I w... DOVE CAMERON When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked w... GARRY KASPAROV When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is t... ROZ CHAST Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years... WARREN SPECTOR The seed for my novel 'Half Brother' was planted in my mind over twenty years ago, but didn&... KENNETH OPPEL My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years ol... DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I... SAM SMITH What's funny is my mom took me to the theater for the first time when I was six years old, and I... DANA DAVIS I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on... KREAYSHAWN My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l... ANNE FOX It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the b... DYLAN MCDERMOTT Elvis came along when I was 10. My father gave me a bass ukulele. I taught myself how to play from a... BOB SEGER My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail ... JANIS IAN When I was 15, my parents left town for a month. 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When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom ... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven ... MICHAEL DOUGLAS I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was ... CAROLINE BUCHANAN My career progressed slowly. Real slow at a time. The irony of it was I had the best part of my care... FRED FUNK I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD 'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD My mom has a tape from when I was, like, 2 years old, talking with my grandma, telling her a story t... AMANDA HOCKING When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of t... JOHN UPDIKE I had sat around campfires all my life, since I was 10 years old. I wanted the sound of water. ED WARNER I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ... DOUG DAVIDSON Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have t... BRUCE SMITH I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted.... VANILLA ICE In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbol... BILLY CORGAN Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING My guitar, it was new when I got it, but it has a hole like Willie's where it's just worn ou... DIERKS BENTLEY I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wif... JASON ALDEAN I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. SEAMUS HEANEY I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ... T. BOONE PICKENS My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother. GARCELLE BEAUVAIS I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&... JESSICA HAGEDORN I made a movie when I was 15 years old with all my friends. This is when IMDb was a little more lax ... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, sev... ODETTE ANNABLE I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being... MELODY BEATTIE I came from a poor family. 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TUPAC SHAKUR From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my... ABBY WAMBACH When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B... MARK TWAIN I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons... JOHN GOKONGWEI I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH Green has always been my mom's favorite color. My father, aunt and I have gotten her jade, emera... ERIKA CHRISTENSEN My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My ... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I started skating when I was about 10 years old. It was in an alleyway. I picked up my brother's... TONY HAWK My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. Th... JENNY LEWIS When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and ... ALEXANDER LUDWIG My mother's family has been in Maine for over 300 years on the same farm. They have a King Georg... ALEXANDER CHEE I don't know about the hair. I've had it since I was a kid, and when I look at myself in the... ERIK HASSLE My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on... JUDITH VIORST The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pa... LANCE BURTON My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me bef... SARAH WATERS My favorite song as a boy was definitely 'Downtown' recorded by Petula Clark. I still love i... BRYAN BATT I was 12 years fittin' to be a billionaire; I was 15 years old as a millionaire. I've been r... BIRDMAN I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Rac... QUEEN LATIFAH My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like, 'It's really hard and it's going to take 1... CHARICE PEMPENGCO I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of... MOLLY RINGWALD I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and '... ALICIA VIKANDER I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used books... AL YANKOVIC
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RICK ATKINSON There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month o... RICK ATKINSON Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our f... RICK ATKINSON The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apa... BROOKS ATKINSON The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point ... BROOKS ATKINSON It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. BROOKS ATKINSON Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God... BROOKS ATKINSON The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or... BROOKS ATKINSON People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of t... BROOKS ATKINSON The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t... BROOKS ATKINSON I told myself, 'When I grow up, I want to make pictures that can inspire and nourish people.'... BILL ATKINSON In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time... BROOKS ATKINSON It will be very hard for anyone to pigeonhole Allen as belonging to any one faction of the Republica... FRANK ATKINSON George Allen has often been compared over the course of his career, dating back to his term as gover... FRANK ATKINSON To these men and women we humbly bow, to the generations who followed and carried the pulpit and tea... FRANK ATKINSON This is nothing short of a huge coup to have the president come in right before the election. 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JACOB ATKINSON Often a seeing a friend in pain outweighs our own pain JACOB ATKINSON Honesty is supposedly the best policy, but if you can't say anything nice you shouldn't say anything... JACOB ATKINSON Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I... JACOB ATKINSON He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the univ... JACOB ATKINSON Make yourself look stupid on occasion, because if you don't people will start to think you're smart.... JACOB ATKINSON Nothing is certain when it comes to the ways of women, of that I'm sure. JACOB ATKINSON Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and when they... JACOB ATKINSON It's weird that people get rewarded for being the millionth fan, or visitor, and the first one gets ... JACOB ATKINSON I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-c... 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