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Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little... MUDDY WATERS
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GEORGIA HOLT I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight.
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My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS
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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 was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc...
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watc... TATIANA MASLANY
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young. CARLOS SLIM
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school... IRINA SHAYK
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS I think it was, my parents got me a karaoke machine when I was about 9 years old. Even before that, ...
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When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I ... JOYCE CAROL OATES
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
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There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started ... GEORGE BRETT
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DAVID COVERDALE When I was growing up, my parents took in foster children. From a young age, I learned that there ar...
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My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a fe... RICHARD BRANSON
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro... MARK TWAIN I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember lov...
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro... MARK TWAIN
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro... JOSH BILLINGS
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man ar... MARK TWAIN
My father died when I was seven, leaving a widow and five sons, ranging in age from five to seventee... ARTHUR LEWIS There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced whe...
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I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United State... HENRY LOUIS GATES
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was al... BABYFACE I won't tell you about the love that happened when I was three years old, but I can tell you about m...
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MAUREEN MCGOVERN
One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in... VICTOR BORGE I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend ...
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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. ... EDEN HAZARD
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I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather sai... ADAM SANDLER My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
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When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing a... NILE RODGERS When I was four or five years old, my grandfather showed me how to build things, paint, saw. Through...
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I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, b... B. B. KING My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
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I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kid... GIGI HADID When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Aust...
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When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which wa... KIEFER SUTHERLAND
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov... DAVID JOHANSEN I started racing BMX when I was five years old. I followed in my brother's footsteps, and I was ...
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LAURA ROBSON I knew I wanted to be a singer from the age of five. I've been lucky to be so single-minded - so...
PIXIE LOTT
I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choi... KELLY ROWLAND My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson...
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