Joyce Carol Oates
Related As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save ... JONI ERNST When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores. CAMILLA LUDDINGTON JOYCE CAROL OATES GARRETT HEDLUND I had bought a farm, was trying to rebuild my life and just looking to be left alone. Then I get cha... MARK FUHRMAN (The film) came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I... LISANNE SKYLER CHARLES FRAZIER J. K. SIMMONS HOLLY HUNTER But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I wou... SAM DONALDSON She's a farm girl, but doesn't fit in. She doesn't want to work on the farm; she'd rather write poet... ALICE BESTERMAN I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted t... DUSTIN CLARE I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl. LARA FLYNN BOYLE TINA TURNER I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, b... BEVERLY CLEARY We bought this farm in 1955 as part of a partnership my father and three brothers had. That lasted u... HAYES HARBOUR The farm is a beautiful farm, and they had great plans. I think they were looking into acquiring ano... FRED LIPKIN Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON MOHSIN HAMID JOSH DUHAMEL I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don&... TRAVIS FIMMEL I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the b... NATHAN FILLION I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't... GABRIEL BASSO It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON WHITLEY STRIEBER SALMA HAYEK I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when ... TRAVIS FIMMEL IRIS APFEL ODETTE ANNABLE JOHN BYTHEWAY KATE BERNHEIMER NICK KROLL When I was in grad school, I had to admit I hadn't read Toni Morrison. My teacher, the novelist ... SUNIL YAPA I was working on the farm to get in shape, about a mile away from my parents. You know, I did everyt... GUY LAFLEUR DAVID JOHANSEN I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in... JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY ROWAN ATKINSON KELSEA BALLERINI On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get... KRYSTEN RITTER Living here where I live, on a farm way out in the countryside, in the woods, in fact, I have plenty... PER PETTERSON It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I read 'Pushing the Limit' and 'Dare You To' by Katie McGarry. Fantastic stuff. I ha... LORI FOSTER When I was young, my parents had a library in our living room. I was always free to browse and read. JUDY BLUME I moved to Seattle when I was two or three years old. Had my early education there, and would spend ... ALEXIS DENISOF When I was super young, I had an Atari and used to play 'Space Invaders.' Then I fell in lov... AMBER ROSE I often played nice guys when I was younger, and it's nice to be able to explore the darker side... JEROME FLYNN My identity was a big issue when I was a teenager, and I had a lot of questions, like: 'Who am I... HIAM ABBASS In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think... BARBARA LYNN MIRANDA KERR MARK WAHLBERG GARRETT HEDLUND SAM SHEPARD I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendenc... JACK DEE I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because the... KATE BUSH The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my... ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS TERRI WINDLING Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to ... JONATHAN DIMBLEBY JOEL SALATIN ELAINE PAGELS DOMENICO STARNONE My family and I reside on a non-working farm, although we have a couple of horses and the usual stuf... AL JARDINE I had a strong propensity, which I still have, to be invisible. In grade school, I'd try to disa... AMANDA PLUMMER MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS ANDREW YOUNG CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &... RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in subu... HALEY BENNETT I took my daughter to school, had breakfast with my dad and when I got to the farm a reporter called... JAY YOUNG I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to t... SAM DONALDSON When I started modeling, I was definitely heavier. I was quite voluptuous in fact. I had a real baby... ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY DAWN STEEL JOEL SALATIN When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bi... JOHN OTTO JOHN MILTON MARY BERRY HOWIE MANDEL Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I&... SCOTT BAIO I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My co... DAVID RUDISHA OLGA KURYLENKO KYLIE JENNER DOUGLAS CARTER BEANE It was awfully hard on my mother. She had trouble facing it, ... She was a farm girl and never hardl... JEANNE PYLE GARRETT HEDLUND CONDOLEEZZA RICE When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that... J. TILLMAN When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I ... LINA WERTMULLER I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I ... NEKO CASE I was very young when I saw 'Gone With the Wind,' but I fell in love with Clark Gable. And w... CARROLL BAKER EVA LONGORIA ROBERT HERJAVEC STELLA MCCARTNEY ROBIN WILLIAMS I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH STEVE MARTIN You can take the boy off the farm, but you can't take the farm out of the boy. They argue about it, ... JUDY ALFORD I wasn't a bad kid. My dad left when I was young, so I didn't have much discipline, not that... DANNY DYER I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well un... LAUREN TARSHIS JAMES HERRIOT LILY COLLINS
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