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ROZ CHAST
If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died a... CHARLIE HUNNAM My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
JULIAN FELLOWES I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM My parents don't have a lot of money, and it was only when my mum's mum died that we could b...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN
There's been a lot of wedding songs and proposals. It's cool because when they play it at we... JON PARDI
My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding. RICHARD FORD
My grandmother died from Alzheimer's, and it was a big shock. For the families left behind, it i... ROSECRANS BALDWIN
I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what... MADELEINE ALBRIGHT My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m...
BRIAN COX Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words n...
SIMON MCBURNEY When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it.
EUZHAN PALCY My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland...
JOHN C. HAWKES
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou... KERRI WALSH JENNINGS
I think social media has taken over for our generation. It's a big part of our lives, and it'... KENDALL JENNER
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k... LEMON ANDERSEN
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big n... RIVER PHOENIX I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date ...
ANNA NICOLE SMITH I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I di...
TREY SONGZ I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be...
INARA GEORGE
My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a b... GABBY DOUGLAS
It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right fra... ELLIE GOULDING I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favori...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON
When my father died in Greece, leaving my mother strapped, a cheque arrived next day from my Greek p... EMMA TENNANT
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil... BILL MURRAY Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are ...
ORLANDO JONES I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&...
KYRIE IRVING It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was ...
CALISTA FLOCKHART
Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks i... STEVE BUSCEMI
It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these g... JACK ANDERSON
We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into ov... RUPAUL
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T Football's the big cheese, if you like. It's easy to have a swipe. There's a lot of foot...
GARY LINEKER
The fact of leaving one's country, one's family, one's roots, can be painful. My father ... NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM
I want people to talk about my comedy, about cancer, about body issues, about scars, because cancer,... TIG NOTARO
But I really feel strongly that our kids do way too much homework. The research is on my side. It... AYELET WALDMAN Marathon Day in Boston and all of Massachusetts, it's Patriot's Day, and it's a big cele...
ELIZABETH WARREN
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh ...
IMANI HAKIM
Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrif... BARRY BONDS Of course it looks bad when you're not executing. When things go bad, it's not going to look...
PHIL SIMMS
It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal,... KATY PERRY
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... CHUCK D
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We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My moth... BEYONCE KNOWLES
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COLIN HANKS
I want a guy who's going to be accepting of - one, my big 'ol, loud Mexican family - and als... BECKY G
I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. ... ANSEL ELGORT My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from...
KADEE STRICKLAND
When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never v... CHRISTOPHER WALKEN Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also t...
BILL WALTON
When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about t... VENUS WILLIAMS
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When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I... RONALD KESSLER I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
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When you're editor-in-chief of a big magazine, you cannot be a cover girl for MAC; you cannot be... CARINE ROITFELD
Is France a completely open market to G.E.? No, of course not. I think we're more discerning abo... JEFFREY R. IMMELT
I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow... PAT CONROY
It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just ... ZAYN MALIK
It's important that people are open. Some people say, 'I'm going to be a doctor,' an... SOPHIA AMORUSO I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX
My mother said that we're so lucky to be women. It's not that men are weak. Men are men. We&... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Conflicts of interest' arise when you're not - when you're sneaky about it, when you'...
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d... VICTOR BORGE
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ART DONOVAN
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JENNY MCCARTHY
My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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My parents, they're the kind of people that didn't want me to get a big head, so they just k... ABBY WAMBACH My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
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ALLISON WILLIAMS Our Quakers love us. we're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.
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RICHIE HAVENS
When I was a kid, you would tune in to 'The Tonight Show' before you went to sleep. Johnny C... JIMMY FALLON
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD
I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and e... SHAWN MENDES My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
EVA HERZIGOVA
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. The... MARGARET HEFFERNAN When our bodies are violated by this horrible disease of cancer, we're in total shock because it...
DAVID H. KOCH
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