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Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.


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BILL CLINTON A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Ro...
OSCAR ISAAC Two years after drama school, I had a nervous breakdown: I heard voices, and the voice I heard in my...
DAVID HAREWOOD I was always inundated with music, whether it be my mother's favorites like Fleetwood Mac and Ca...
ANDRA DAY What got me motivated was my dad's idea that I go to Morehouse College in Atlanta. It's an a...
JEH JOHNSON The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will b...
ALCEE HASTINGS I never looked at fan mail, for some reason. My mother and grandmother handled my mail - although it...
JASON BATEMAN I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
SEAMUS HEANEY My first name is a boy's name. It's Tanner. I've always gone by my middle name but, yeah...
ELLE KING The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by ...
MIKE PENCE We ask all those tens of thousands of people who stood in line to view the body of Coretta Scott Kin...
DON EDWARDS Coretta Scott King will be missed. Her work and her life was not in vain because of the sacrifices s...
HANA STITH Our families, the Scott and King families, have been chosen to lead what I feel is a movement toward...
EDYTHE SCOTT BAGLEY My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.
DEMETRIUS SHIPP, JR. My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.
SIMON VAN DER MEER I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked w...
GARRY KASPAROV My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&...
JESSICA HAGEDORN My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
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CHERIE BLAIR There's a bunch of Stephen King books I love. 'Salem's Lot' was always one of my fav...
PAUL CLEAVE I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I...
ED KOCH He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa...
JUNE CARTER CASH I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I di...
TREY SONGZ My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl.
AMBER HEARD I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ...
RUPERT MURDOCH My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.
CHANDRA WILSON I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing r...
ADRIAN LYNE My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ...
MACKENZIE PHILLIPS My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I w...
VIKRAM CHATWAL I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ...
T. BOONE PICKENS King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was...
ROBERTA WILLIAMS One thing that I love about 'Difficult People' is that Julie Klausner and our showrunner, Sc...
BILLY EICHNER My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really...
GRACE JONES King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle&...
LLOYD ALEXANDER I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke...
SUGAR RAY LEONARD My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great ga...
OLIVIA WILLIAMS My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag.'
MIRANDA LEEK As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ...
EUGENE JARECKI I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her.
JENNIFER ANISTON My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he's just started to understand that som...
HUEY NEWTON I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city'...
JACK MA Scott Foley was always fun because he's a very funny guy. So I liked working with him a bunch.
IAN GOMEZ My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. ...
CHRISTOPHER JUDGE I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't...
J. D. SOUTHER I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I ha...
THOMAS BECKET I was the King of Twinkie-Vision one day, the King of Jiggle TV the next, thanks to Farrah Fawcett a...
FRED SILVERMAN Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n...
JIM JARMUSCH Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajec...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I was baptized as an infant. I was confirmed as an adolescent; I was active in my church's youth...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's ...
GARY LOCKE I'm really proud of these kids. I knew it was just a matter of time before this group of young kids ...
DAVID HEEB Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother w...
SAM RIVERS A lot of people have asked me about some of the characters that appear in 'Clockwork Prince,'...
CASSANDRA CLARE It is absolutely ludicrous that abortion supporters would accuse a blood relative of Dr. King of hij...
ALVEDA KING My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was ...
JOE LHOTA I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
CARLISLE FLOYD My black hero is and always will be Martin Luther King, not just because of the strength of his orat...
DAVID HAREWOOD I was very proud to be Mrs. Curtis Amy. My thing in life when I married Curtis Amy was being Mrs. Cu...
MERRY CLAYTON My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
EVA HERZIGOVA J. K. Rowling's first 'Harry Potter' manuscript was rejected 12 times. Stephen King'...
ASHWIN SANGHI Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama...
JAY-Z I only met Ian Fleming once, at a party given by my father's friend the director Carol Reed, at ...
MICHAEL KORDA Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a l...
JOE TORRE I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody,...
CARLOS SANTANA I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gav...
LIZA MINNELLI Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civili...
MARIANNE WILLIAMSON I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv...
RUDY GIULIANI It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the p...
JOHN BUCHANAN ROBINSON My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so...
A. R. RAHMAN I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ...
ICE T Mark Antony in his famous funeral oration in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' says that he came not to ...
LEE HARRIS Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have t...
BRUCE SMITH Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov...
DAVID JOHANSEN When I first started, I worked with my father, Alex 'Little Bill' Wallace; he was a guitaris...
WADADA LEO SMITH My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hop...
ALVEDA KING My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '...
CELIA IMRIE Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it...
DOUG DAVIDSON I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'...
LAILA ALI They also had a guest choir from Malden, Massachusetts, and the featured soloist with the choir was ...
VALERIE CUNNINGHAM My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we...
TORI AMOS That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind...
LYNN JOHNSTON On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father&#...
DAN FEUERRIEGEL My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
SIDNEY POITIER I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni...
WALE When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is t...
ROZ CHAST But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK For the longest time, I was Scott Ruffalo's brother. I mean, he was the mayor of Beverly Hills. ...
MARK RUFFALO I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be...
INARA GEORGE My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"

She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
ORLANDO BLOOM My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.
DOROTHY MALONE There were times over the years when I wanted to take a break from 'Scott Pilgrim,' or even ...
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STEPHEN KING Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
STEPHEN KING We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy...
FLORENCE KING Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that...
STEPHEN KING Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they d...
STEPHEN KING The scariest moment is always just before you start.
STEPHEN KING The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because wo...
STEPHEN KING The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
STEPHEN KING If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
STEPHEN KING Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...
STEPHEN KING [Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
STEPHEN KING It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
STEPHEN KING A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
STEPHEN KING And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
STEPHEN KING Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING As I drive home, I picture other signs- one for everyone who has a secret. Bill Corso's would say, I...
A.S. KING As I load my shirt into the washer for the night, I daydream about making a sign and hanging it arou...
A.S. KING I see it as symbolic. The label no longer fits. His emotional parsimoniousness just got sucked away ...
A.S. KING you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
STEPHEN KING There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col...
STEPHEN KING Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
STEPHEN KING You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
STEPHEN KING The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
STEPHEN KING Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KING If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
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