Vanessa Carlton
Related I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artis... MIKE SHINODA BILLY CRYSTAL Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ... JACK BRUCE Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was ... JACK BRUCE My grandmother was a classical pianist, so I grew up with Schubert, Mozart, Beethoven. I studied pia... PHILLIPA SOO My mom's a concert pianist, so she started teaching me when I was around seven. When I was eight... BIRDY PINK TOMMY LEE I saw Farrah Fawcett originally when she and her boyfriend, Lee Majors, came over to my house for a ... RYAN O'NEAL SASHA COHEN HARRY STYLES BILL RANCIC My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She w... LESLIE MORGAN STEINER Ever since I was a little kid, I always thought about my first start in college football. I was a li... BLAKE FIELD BONNIE JO CAMPBELL ED WEEKS There was once a house built out of memories and inside this house lived a woman called The Memory S... DIRIYE OSMAN WILL FERRELL PARIS HILTON SASHA PIETERSE You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my... CHARLIE WORSHAM OLGA KURYLENKO When the prospects of fame fortune bring thought to a life of no worry, it brings other worries in t... GARY F EVANS... My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa... WENDY LIEBMAN VINCE VAUGHN MAGIC JOHNSON DEBI MAZAR I thought she was older. She was big for her age. So, I asked her to carry my books. CHARLES MELLOR At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and... JENNY MCCARTHY Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of u... MISTY COPELAND I did grow up poor. My mom managed to get a job as a custodian at our church, and it was really just... CRYSTAL BOWERSOX I believed enough in this project that I thought it would turn into something pretty big, so I sold ... CHARLES GREEN My grandfather, Arthur Baskerville, he played and still plays a little bit piano and trombone, and s... AARON DIEHL MINDY KALING ZAYN MALIK It was tough ... on me to be honest with you. I can remember in December sitting in my house, and my... ALEX RODRIGUEZ ANSEL ELGORT So many people got us through the loss, ... Certainly beginning with family on all sides, tremendous... MARY BONO She was talking a lot of stuff about my mom. She pushed me, I hit her and it was done. CHRISTI NARDOZZI ADRIENNE BAILON JULIANNA MARGULIES WAVY GRAVY My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering hers... CHARLES DANCE I tried to walk it off a little bit and my balance was a little off. My vision was clear, my mind wa... HUNTER CANTWELL I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I wi... DYLAN PENN CHRISTINA HENDRICKS LAURA MVULA Even as a little girl, my mom never wanted me to watch BET, but when I was at my grandparents' h... WINNIE HARLOW I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a s... RICKIE LEE JONES She was crying. There were tears coming down her cheeks. She spoke no English, except 'I miss my mom... CINDY MORGAN Ignorance breeds fear and hatred. KRISTIN CAST My mom jumped up and down, ... She was so excited. JENNIFER NELSON JOAN RIVERS JOHN GREEN CLAUDIA GRAY FIONA SHAW Like a lot of kids, I had a Superman cake or different theme cakes, but then I hit the age where I t... WILLIE GEIST QUENTIN TARANTINO TOM REISS TINA FEY SHERRI SHEPHERD I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble fa... MIGUEL COTTO RAJNEESH My mom really raised me, so I took her name before I ever thought about having a career. It was for ... MAX CASELLA I grew up in such a musical family, and my dad was the first chair in the Johannesburg Symphony Orch... TREVOR RABIN My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and int... MAE WHITMAN PETER C. DOHERTY My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn&#... JASON ALDEAN To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea... GARY F EVANS... ELIZA DUSHKU SOULJA BOY I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour fro... CASEY NICHOLAW She had a huge bump, but she wasn't sure what hit her. It swelled up when she was out there. She did... GINA NOLAN HEIDI KLUM XAVIER RUDD JOSEPH BRUCHAC I just saw a clip of Maria Bamford. She has a comedy show that was filmed and performed from her bed... DANA SCHUTZ My mom is proud of me. I just want to keep working hard so one day I can help my family. I am going ... BEN MCLEMORE I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a ... ALAN HOVHANESS Yesterday she was feeling very weak, she was tired and she was hungry as well, ... And my mom said t... JESSICA LYNCH How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS My mom was afraid of burning, that was her big thing, she didn't want to burn, so she kind of stayed... TIM MCCUNE It was kind of tough. I would come to her defense if a salesperson was rude to my mom. WENDY TIMM I was just angry at my mom, ... I don't know if it was because they broke up, but I used to argue wi... GREG ODEN I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa... OTTESSA MOSHFEGH JOYCE RACHELLE I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra... JOHN NASH JOHN FORBES NASH, JR. I skated and rode bikes on ramps, and my mom was always super supportive. She was one of the only di... SPIKE JONZE It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of reti... JAY ALLEN It was a terrible tragedy, but I was pleased being out of town and having these discussions (of r... JAY ALLEN I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT Miranda was in a sort of little Charleston dress, she was probably 14, and she sat on the piano and ... BARRY OTTO SARAH JESSICA PARKER When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and... GARRY MARSHALL From where I was sitting, I thought the official blew the call. She had gone up strong to the basket... BRENDA BECKWITH KIRSTEN DUNST First of all, I was a good Christian kid. My mom and dad taught me never to fight. So I never fought... FRANK PERETTI The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes lat... JULIAN FELLOWES Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with o... SHAWN LEVY
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CARLTON FISK It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine. CARLTON FISK I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carr... CARLTON FISK If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, o... CARLTON FISK It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career. CARLTON FISK I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate... CARLTON CUSE I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to ha... CARLTON CUSE As a writer, I always think about who my prototype actors are, in my brain. It's helpful, as a w... CARLTON CUSE I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the ac... CARLTON CUSE 'Brisco' was the first show I created, and of course, at the time I had no idea what a speci... 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CARLTON CUSE The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story,... CARLTON CUSE One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to ... CARLTON CUSE That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and env... CARLTON CUSE I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics... CARLTON CUSE Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time... CARLTON CUSE I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' ar... CARLTON CUSE I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most ... CARLTON CUSE 'Lost' is about a bunch of people stranded on an island. It's compelling, but kind of ti... CARLTON CUSE I feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole ex... CARLTON CUSE We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it&... CARLTON CUSE The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You ha... CARLTON CUSE I can't say that the ending of a story is always the best part of the story, and yet there's... CARLTON CUSE I consider it an honor and a privilege to be here today, ... I'm also involved with Special Olympics... CARLTON FISK But when they won the third game I started to believe. CARLTON FISK I thought he was my friend, but he betrayed me. If someone points a gun at you and shoots and it doe... CARLTON DOTSON very concerned about his well-being at this time. CARLTON DOTSON I didn't confess to anything. CARLTON DOTSON the son of God. CARLTON DOTSON The mistake they made was hanging everything on the question of who killed Laura Palmer. In our show... CARLTON CUSE I think we very much want to put those things into the show that lead to discussion and analysis and... CARLTON CUSE We're viewers with control. CARLTON CUSE Damon and I came up with the idea that this character would die last spring, CARLTON CUSE The genre aspects of the show are cool, and we have fun doing it. But I am much more engaged by the ... CARLTON CUSE While this episode is more on the mythological aspect, it's not reflective of a change in direction.... CARLTON CUSE We were really surprised, but really pleased, that that did not get spoiled. CARLTON CUSE These guys get off the island. CARLTON CUSE I think we've made a bold choice in terms of how to answer that question. Some people will not like ... CARLTON CUSE We purposely design the show with a big amount of ambiguity so people can theorize about what a cert... CARLTON CUSE It's an absolutely fantastic end to the mission. CARLTON ALLEN It just can't work that way. CARLTON ALLEN My immediate reaction was that our job had just increased by two or three years, but that the sample... CARLTON ALLEN Certainly the lesson from the Genesis crash, which was apparently caused by parts incorrectly instal... CARLTON ALLEN The good news is there are folks who are seemingly interested in creating other opportunities, and w... CHAD CARLTON It isn't a job for people who just want something to put on their resume. CHAD CARLTON It's hard to go much farther than that. CHAD CARLTON We're disappointed. We feel strongly that local communities should have control over their future. CHAD CARLTON That should be the focus -- getting the project done on that site. CHAD CARLTON The good news is there are folks who are seemingly interested in creating other opportunities, and w... CHAD CARLTON I looked over at their bench and they were acting like they had it. And I was like, they don't have ... CARLTON VALENTINE D.J. and Cameron did a whale of a job on the boards for us. They were the difference at the end. CARLTON VALENTINE I told them we've been here before, we know how to come back from behind and play tough defense. CARLTON VALENTINE (Holt) did the little things that we didn't do. When you look at a four-point game, you look at the ... CARLTON VALENTINE I'm stubborn, I'm a man-to-man guy. I want to go hat-on-hat. CARLTON VALENTINE It feels like I just played 32 minutes. I've got to sit down. CARLTON VALENTINE That's how we've played all year. We play better in the fourth quarter. CARLTON VALENTINE We didn't rebound when we needed to get rebounds. We didn't get a stop when we needed to get a stop.... CARLTON VALENTINE We had them right there. We've just got to learn to be a little bit more patient. We were hurrying a... CARLTON VALENTINE Basketball is a game of runs, and we got our run just at the right time. CARLTON VALENTINE With my speed and the way I can shoot the ball, if I get my body to where I want it, it can cause a ... CARLTON REED The thing that excites me the most was the way I was embraced there. It's a place where I'm genuinel... CARLTON REED He's just been supportive. I've got to do what's best for me. CARLTON REED That was a small situation that was made into a big deal. The problem was solved the next morning. CARLTON REED I want to be happy when I play basketball. CARLTON REED It's night and day how much people respect this program now compared to four or five years ago. And ... CARLTON REED If you want to see how people grow, you can either watch a person for a lifetime or you can look at ... CARLTON PRYOR Globular clusters are old and give us a limit on the age of the universe. The universe couldn't be y... CARLTON PRYOR All the stars in a cluster are the same distance away, so you can compare brightness without having ... CARLTON PRYOR If you plot the distribution of clusters, you discover that almost all of them are on one side of th... CARLTON PRYOR If you want to see how people grow, you can either watch a person for a lifetime or you can look at ... CARLTON PRYOR Sometimes God doesn't tell us His plan because we wouldn't believe it anyway. CARLTON PEARSON I got into a discussion with a student in class. So, I think he called his boys, and one thing led t... CARLTON MILLER You can say what you want to say, 'cause I know what I am and I know what I'm not. CARLTON MILLER They drug me out in the middle of the street. Four more guys jumped on me. CARLTON MILLER The police think it was a hate crime, and I do believe that. I mean, they might have hate against me... CARLTON MILLER The courts could not handle them all. CARLTON JONES We've had some rough years in the past. And to have a chance to win five games and win the Commander... CARLTON JONES He's made a huge difference. He's made everyone's attitudes and beliefs that we could win, that we c... CARLTON JONES I'm honored to be mentioned with such a great man. You see his highlights on film and it is amazing. CARLTON JONES We just have to go out there and capitalize on their side of the field. CARLTON JONES Going into the Big East was all they stressed to me while I was being recruited, that and the bowl g... CARLTON HILL I think both of us will play in this game. I don't know how soon I'll play, but I believe we'll shar... CARLTON HILL I made up my mind that I'm a quarterback, and whatever I have to learn, I'm going to do it and be su... CARLTON HILL That was a major part of it. The hurricane gave me more time in practice, gave me time to get better... CARLTON HILL I'm happy where I am. When we play any team, I'm ready, excuse my language, to kick (butt). I just w... CARLTON HILL Somebody will get a gem. CARLTON GREENE She has chosen to concentrate on basketball, and she has given it 110 percent of her interest, effor... CARLTON GREENE The last two years, even though she hasn't been surrounded by great talent, she has made that talent... CARLTON GREENE I think the best thing about Courtney is the way she has interacted with her team. Even being as suc... CARLTON GREENE Tonight, she played the kind of game I expected her to have. We were trying to take away the inside,... CARLTON GREENE With our defense, we were able to get the ball out in transition and run the floor, and that paid of... CARLTON GREENE When you have two like that, sometimes teams have one good defensive player that they can put on one... CARLTON GREENE The hundred times I've played The Honors Course, I've never seen anybody make it from below that rid... CARLTON FORRESTER I'll use the money to buy Matt a present for his wedding in October. CARLTON FORRESTER I went to the range and worked on a few things at the break and hit it a lot better in the afternoon... CARLTON FORRESTER I was 4 down at the turn but still felt there was a lot of golf left and felt I was still in the mat... CARLTON FORRESTER Here I was trying to claw my way back and he hits that shot on 13 and sinks that putt on 14. That re... CARLTON FORRESTER There was no player I enjoyed playing against more than Kirby. He brought such joy to the game. He e... CARLTON FISK I knew it was gonna go out, ... It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have ... CARLTON FISK I'm a six-handicap but those two holes scare me every time, CARLTON FISK The celebratory spirit in Boston is unbelievable, ... But Boston being Boston, the fans aren't reall... CARLTON FISK When they got behind three games to none, I was thinking 'Here we go again, CARLTON FISK It's not just Palmeiro but a lot of these guys have put up numbers that border on the obscene, ... A... CARLTON FISK I don't know what's going to happen with these guys down the road when they become eligible for the ... CARLTON FISK I think the Red Sox chances will all come down to how well he pitches in the playoffs, ... I don't t... CARLTON FISK The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers. STEVE CARLTON I know for a fact they couldn't fully fund all of the programs. They had to cut back in some areas. ... ANITA CARLTON 'Twin Peaks' looms large to me as cautionary tale, CARLTON CUSE The town was growing and there wasn't room for anything new. Near the end of the time there, if we b... CARLTON WHITNEY It was very crowded in the village hall. It was used very much. That's how we got a new library buil... CARLTON WHITNEY I think on another day, we could have beaten these guys. For the most part, we were OK on offense. W... CALVIN CARLTON What of your sins, Rogue? If the hero encountered you today, would he spare you a date with his swor... ELIZABETH CARLTON No, no. By all means, lead on. Nothing gets the blood pumping more than hunting down the biggest thr... ELIZABETH CARLTON The rogue has suffered much. He needs someone to remind him of why he once believed in a good path..... ELIZABETH CARLTON The U.S. Army burned 12 times more fuel per soldier in Iraq than it did in France in 1944 -- nine ga... CARLTON MEYER [* What the castaways discover under the hatch next season will change our perception of the island,... CARLTON CUSE I think they should reach a little higher next year. ANITA CARLTON I think we could do better, but I think we did good. We had a lot of really good help. I feel really... ANITA CARLTON You know what, we worked within our family and said let's do it for each other. Let's not depend on ... CARLTON BROWN It was a momentum changer. CARLTON BROWN This is an expensive, long term industry. They would not be making those investments if they didn't ... BARBARA CARLTON Until we really know the effects of Wilma, we won't know if there even is a disease-free area. But i... BARBARA CARLTON Current grove designs are older and machines tend to be large. If you don't have enough space, you c... BARBARA CARLTON He's a very good businessman. He likes things done right. He's very fair-minded. BARBARA CARLTON If you wait until it freezes before turning on irrigation, the water will freeze in the lines. BARBARA CARLTON We just need to erase this game from our memory, and go out there execute a lot better. CALVIN CARLTON We're basically car people - or car nuts - whatever you want to call it. WAYNE CARLTON There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent... CARLTON YOUNG It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me. STEVE CARLTON Reason only controls individuals after emotion and impulse have lost their impetus CARLTON SIMON There is a natural progression to 'Lost,' and as the story goes forward, it's going to c... CARLTON CUSE All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing. CARLTON SMITH To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice a... STEVE CARLTON We kind of fought that one out last year. It was on for young and old a bit. But Southern Cross is p... MIKE CARLTON It started after talking with quite a few sportsmen in the area, hunters, anglers and shooting sport... CARLTON MURREY I have not the foresight to predict everything, Rogue. ELIZABETH CARLTON I've tried to argue the fact that experience and direction and track record are valuable assets. I c... CARLTON CHRISTENSEN That is very much going to be at the forefront of all the new labor negotiations, particularly with ... CARLTON CUSE So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that. STEVE CARLTON If you want to see how people grow, you can either watch a person for a lifetime or you can look at ... CARLTON PRYOR He's learning. Bo is really turning into a true leader. He could have really broke for us out here b... CARLTON BROWN One of the things we wanted to do was to communicate the enormity of the task. CARLTON HAYWOOD You stop to get apples and people swamp all over it. WAYNE CARLTON I was enraged, I was very very angry and I'm still angry about it. LISA CARLTON Some of the women in town took a red wagon and went door to door collecting books. The first library... CARLTON WHITNEY My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh ... STEVE CARLTON I got about a pound-and-a half of chewing gum from under the tables. WAYNE CARLTON We're not seeing quantum leaps in price. But we have houses selling. CARLTON LUND Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it a... STEVE CARLTON That was a huge momentum shift for us. We can't blame the whole game on it, though. There was a lot ... CALVIN CARLTON If you want to see how people grow, you can either watch a person for a lifetime or you can look at ... CARLTON PRYOR What we are immediately looking for are representatives, one or two from each county to sit on the b... CARLTON MURREY In 2005, the Department of Defense had about 27,000 vehicles in Iraq, and every one of them had poor... CARLTON MEYER I would not have predicted that it (the market) would have been as active as it has been this early ... CARLTON LUND They're not going to be any shortcuts. CARLTON HAYWOOD We're not where we want to be on just about everything. CARLTON HAYWOOD I wonder if Tiger Woods knows that every time he tees up his golf ball, he is putting it on somethin... CARLTON FUNN I've been doing this for 45 years and I'm still amazed at what I find out. CARLTON FUNN I try to make sure people have an understanding of history. CARLTON FUNN
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