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RITA LEVI-MONTALCINI My brother always wanted to see me do well, and he always encouraged me.
KATE CURRAN Wellington has been there for me throughout the years, ... I've had my problems. He never told me wh...
LAWRENCE TAYLOR
'This is a family,' he told me. ... And he said, 'What do I have to do to prove I love my child? JOSE SERRANO
The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of m... NICKY OPPENHEIMER My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then...
RAHA MOHARRAK Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard...
ME Just look at what is spelled:
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ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester...
ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high.
ME My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor an...
LARRY FITZGERALD Salman will always be that special person in my life because he was able to change my career. I will...
JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ I knew I had to come to the States. My dad told me that a man has to do what a man has to do, and I ...
CAMILLE MOUTE
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... JOE GIBBS
I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I s... MARKUS ZUSAK Believing in God and trusting in him has giving me strength and peace. He has showed me things about...
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The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how ... IVANKA TRUMP
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ... DAWN FRENCH My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that'...
ALAN CUMMING Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology s...
WYCLEF JEAN Part of me always wanted to do something useful for the world. It came from my mother. She is a paed...
ESTHER DUFLO I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ...
BARRY ZITO
Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my... ANDREW SOLOMON Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my...
ROSALYN SUSSMAN YALOW
To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unendin... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT My brother and I used to ride around in a half-ton cattle truck, listening to Waylon, so when he die...
GENE WEBB
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GREG ESLINGER My mom was always keen I stayed in school and got good grades, and she was always keen for me to do ...
IAIN DE CAESTECKER
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When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ... JOHN LENNON
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In my forties, my optimism was boundless. I had really good health and tremendous success which allo... PATRICIA CORNWELL My mother read nursery rhymes to me, and my grandmother told me folk stories, but as a child I had n...
ALAN GARNER
When I was a teenager, my dad watched my films and told me I could go to art college and study anima... NICK PARK
And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have bee... BLACK ELK
I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any re... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
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I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poe... JAMES SALTER
Do you love me?' I asked her. She smiled. 'Yes.' 'Do you want me to be happy?' as I asked her this I... NICHOLAS SPARKS
I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values an... AMY PURDY Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way f...
TAYLOR HICKS This course has always held something special for me. My sophomore year I got second here and I've a...
DUSTIN DAVIS
Honestly, Coach is great. He's like a father figure to me because he's so hard on me. Growing up, my... NATE ROBINSON I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business...
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This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H... MELINA MARCHETTA
I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reade... JUDITH VIORST
My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn... STEVIE WONDER I knew from the time I was 6 or 7 that music was something I had to do. Growing up, my parents did e...
CRYSTAL BOWERSOX When my mother would tell me that she wanted me to have something because she as a child had never h...
EUDORA WELTY A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad ...
ALI SMITH We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right n...
JOE WHITE
My father always wanted me to play a musical instrument, and I never had that type of skill. CAM NEWTON Later that night, I was flying. I asked him what was going on and he told me that he put some dope i...
DANIEL BROWN
I think someone else told him, ... He didn't even know who I was. It made me feel a little proud. I ... ERYKAH BADU
I was at my locker in West Palm pretty upset with the way things were going, and in walked Paul Snyd... DALE MURPHY
My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do... GWYNETH PALTROW I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the...
RANDY BACHMAN
It dawned on me that acting was what I wanted to do with my life. Nothing had ever touched my heart ... HUGH JACKMAN
For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying... DEEPIKA PADUKONE My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.
DAVID GIUNTOLI
The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, ... SIDNEY CROSBY I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an...
CAROLYN BYERS RUCH
I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipl... AMY CHUA Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than sc...
GARY SHERMAN
When I was a child, I had wax in my ears. Dad didn't take me to the doctor, he used me as a nigh... LES DAWSON I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h...
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I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right. OSCAR DE LA RENTA I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that...
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I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college befor... ANN RICHARDS All I had to do was open my heart and say, 'Show me, God,' and it's always been that way for me.
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