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DOUG DAVIDSON
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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they ...
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'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
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I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long d... KIRSTEN DUNST
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Seven cities warr'd for Homer being dead,
Who living had no roofe to shroud his head. THOMAS HEYWOOD My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father durin...
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Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated. DAVID DINKINS My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
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My family was musical on both sides. My father's family had a famous flautist and a classical pi... GLORIA ESTEFAN My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professio...
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When I was in fact a child, six and seven and eight years old, I was utterly baffled by the enthusia... JOAN DIDION
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was... SANDRA CISNEROS I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother h...
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HERMIONE GINGOLD I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE They had a kid who hit seven three's against us.
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MARGO JEFFERSON
I've had dialogues with my dead mother over the 40 years since she died. DREW GILPIN FAUST
My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA
On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from th... ALEXIS OHANIAN My parents had two blind dogs, and they did fine. I have a three-legged cat at home that had been hi...
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I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although ... TINA TURNER I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ...
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JAMIE WOODRUFF
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My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH
No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very lovin... JAMES E. FAUST As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ...
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In some instances, even when crisis intervention has been intensive and appropriate, the mother and ... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y...
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My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS
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I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin... BRAD PAISLEY
I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunit... TODD ENGLISH
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN
My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but did... SALMA HAYEK
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS My father had a pat answer: I'm extremely proud of all my three children,
JAMES GANDOLFINI My father had a pat answer: I'm extremely proud of all my three children.
LETA GANDOLFINI
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The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father ... NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM You have had seven and one half years of freedom that you never should have had.
RICHARD ALSETH
My father was a tailor. He worked from seven o'clock in the morning until seven at night. At lea... HAROLD PINTER
My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn't appro... JOHN COLTRANE When I had been left out of the national team it was disappointing but I never gave up. I was only i...
ASHWELL PRINCE My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour ...
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I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being... MELODY BEATTIE I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
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BERNICE CARNEGIE
I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without reali... JEAN COCTEAU
My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptiv... MICHAEL FRANTI
A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love r... JAMES THURBER
A lady of forty-seven who had been married twenty-seven years and has six children knows what love r... JAMES THURBER Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together,...
CAROLINE CORR
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my fat... STEVE JOBS
When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got t... MARK TWAIN
My mother had a master's degree and had been a schoolteacher before she started having kids at 3... ALLAN GURGANUS
Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov... DAVID JOHANSEN
I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in ... FIONA SHAW
Two's company and three's a crowd, but seven can be an uprising. And the seven can become 70... MICHAEL LEUNIG
Our family was like no one else's. My schoolfriends had fathers and grandfathers and uncles who ... SUE HUBBELL I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child...
LISA LUTZ
My mother told me Homer Ditto was not my father. Nope. Mom had had a fling with some other guy who w... BETH DITTO My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who...
ARTHUR SHAPIRO I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven yea...
BRYAN ROBSON We had been working on the house for seven years. We just had to do one last push.
DEBBIE BRETCHES Between the Capital Circuit and (CAAC-3), we've won seven years in a row. We had seven champions and...
BOB VEITCH Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice...
LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee... DAVID LEE
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY
