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As he looked at me, he seemed to send a message of his own: that he would still fight for me, that h...
RICHELLE MEAD When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim...
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The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the sa...
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It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture...
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My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age ...
MATTHEW MODINE No one has really seen me in years.” Blake looked at the sky. “Sometimes I wonder how they know ...
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His back was to me and he was wearing pajama bottoms and nothing else. His shoulders, the smooth mus...
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I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from...
CECELIA AHERN I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and l...
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That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face ...
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It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had...
PATRICIA BRIGGS One night I dreamed a dream.
I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky fl...
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Where are you going?”
He looked over his shoulder at me. “If I stay, you won’t get any sl...
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IMAN My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, an...
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My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to m...
ANGELA BOWIE He told me if he was going to check out of it, he was going to come to me. When he checked to it, I ...
DWAYNE JARRETT He told me if he was going to check out of it, he was going to come to me. When he checked to it, I ...
DWAYNE JARRETT![]()
I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left...
GERRY COONEY He's helped me a lot. He always gave me pointers and tips. He would come to games, and he was my big...
KYLE MCKENZIE My family never took me to church except a couple of times. But when I was 12, I hung out with this ...
BRIAN WELCH I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He t...
BRENDAN GLEESON![]()
I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interes...
NATHANIEL BRANDEN![]()
So I was a stone in the sea.
Gravity gave up on keeping me above the surface. I did not try to...
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My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things t...
CAROL LEE I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about...
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My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th...
BILL COSBY I surprised a local minister at the age of 10 when he asked me what I wanted to be and I told him th...
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When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.
DOMHNALL GLEESON He kissed my tears away and whispered sweet words into my ears. Words that he was too afraid to say ...
A. ZAVARELLI They (fellow inmates) were there for me and helped me out when I was in there, ... But it was a bad ...
EDDIE GRIFFIN He tried to go through me with the elbow and I was there to take the charge and the referee gave me ...
BRENDAN HAYWOOD I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m...
TRINI LOPEZ I was told they were from North Carolina. Then, I was told they were from Prince George's County. To...
ERIC MITCHELL![]()
Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there we...
CHEVY CHASE When I joined it was at the same time that he came back to the club after running a few sports shops...
COLIN COOPER
RAOUL PECK 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa...
JAMES C. DOBSON On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me...
LILLIE LANGTRY He was a prince. There was no hope in saying yes to the boy with the garnet eyes who left me reckles...
RACHEL E. CARTER I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the...
RANDY BACHMAN
I met Prince William at a musical festival and he let me know he was a fan of my music. But the invi... ELLIE GOULDING My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died ...
DAMIAN MARLEY He actually took a couple on me. I kind of get defensive when a person scores on me, so I was saying...
TRENT STRICKLAND I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was searching for prince charming but God gave me the Prince of Peace.
DEBRA ROBERTS The thing was, at a young age, my mom and my grandma always tried to keep me out of the streets as m...
BIG SEAN
The first time you kissed me? That moment when your lips touched mine? You stole a piece of my heart... COLLEEN HOOVER There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me ...
ANTONELLA GAMBOTTO-BURKE
He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put ... ALLEN GINSBERG
When I was a child, my parents took my brothers and me to Port-au-Prince during the summer so we cou... ROXANE GAY
You gave me the truth today, so I’ll share mine: even if it meant us being friends again, I don’... SARAH J. MAAS
I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Ben actually looked to the left and I had a hitch route. It was only about six yards, so when he cam...
HINES WARD
When I was being honest with myself, I had to own that there was something about me that was drawing... NIECY NASH You know what my father told me when I was little, one day, when he found me crying? He told me that...
IRINA BINDER
When I was young, I did Baby Guess and Guess Kids - Paul Marciano saw me when I was a baby and decid... GIGI HADID when i was younger i love to pick up mud and shove it in my brothers face he would get so mad at me ...
DALLY SALAD The first time I got pregnant, I was a young girl - I was 17 years old. Although I knew right away t...
PAULA GARCES
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that ... DAWN FRENCH When my coach told me I was drafted I was really excited. It's a chance for me to keep doing what I ...
KRYSTAL LEWALLEN When Lofton came into the dugout, he said it was hard to see anything that had any kind of break to ...
BRETT MYERS I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, a...
LINDA EVANS
My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, ... JODI PICOULT (My father) he would be surprised to know he was still popular today, ... He told me, when he was qu...
ARTHUR MARX
But there is one person who expected the unexpected from me and the only time I noticed disappointme... KATIE MCGARRY
Geno told them why I was there, and they all came down off the truck and looked me over — I guess ... DREXEL DEAL
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... MARA WILSON The kid, he just looked to me like he was ready. It was time to start playing. He put his game face ...
ART HOWE My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In...
CHANTAL AKERMAN The next day at college he followed me to the girls' loos (toilets) in the basement. When I came out...
CYNTHIA LENNON I was a total stranger to him, and he let me sit down at his table and we talked for an hour, ... I ...
STEPHAN PASTIS A.J. came out and calmed me down (after the homer), ... I was upset with the pitch I threw and mad w...
JON GARLAND Many times, when I was having a hard time with one of my children, God would always remind me that H...
CHARLIE "TREMENDOUS" JONES He gave me an opportunity when everybody turned their back on me. He gave me a chance to come to sch...
CARON BUTLER
One night (I was eleven years old at the time) he came and shook me from my sleep and announced, wit... MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Then I saw that sparkle in Naji's eye and knew he was laughing at me.
"See?" he said. "Now you ...
CASSANDRA ROSE CLARKE Two years before, the man had ended my reign. I had been the semel of a tribe of werepanthers, leade...
MARY CALMES Companions were not allowed to lie. I don’t know why. I had tried a few times when I was young to ...
ERMA I TALAMANTE
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United State... HENRY LOUIS GATES
She took me to her room and stood me in front of her dresser, which was covered in a pillowcase with... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Will knelt beside me. I wished I could have taken a holo of him at that moment and played it for him...
CAMERON STRACHER
As he looked at me, he seemed to send a message of his own: that he would still fight for me, that h... RICHELLE MEAD When I was younger, I was ready to go off at any time. My wife, Linda, and I would go out to the Lim...
JOHNNY RAMONE
There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I no... MICHAEL STIPE
Mom was bossy. Even in print I could hear her tone, smugly congratulating me on already earning the ... KIERA CASS Scully,' [Mulder] said, his voice quiet and serious, 'with the... unorthodox explanations I often fi...
KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the sa... JOHN COREY WHALEY André read me even when I was silent. He saw all of me, and he still wanted me. He thought I was be...
KARINA SZCZUREK
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture... LEONARDO DA VINCI I got the F-bomb my first day on the job. I was still stuttering around and scared and hadn't said m...
ANDREW NIELSON
My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age ... MATTHEW MODINE No one has really seen me in years.” Blake looked at the sky. “Sometimes I wonder how they know ...
DEBRA ANASTASIA
His back was to me and he was wearing pajama bottoms and nothing else. His shoulders, the smooth mus... KRISTEN ASHLEY I was doing a late-night round as a milkman in 1978 when I heard a radio DJ announce that he was lea...
ALAN DALE
I don't know if Marcus knows how important that moment was to me. How much he actually saved me from... CECELIA AHERN I was running to catch a train when one of my teachers saw me. He thought I was fast, time me, and l...
ELIZABETH ROBINSON SCHWARTZ One night after a show he gave me a gift. When I opened up the bag, he had made out of clay and drie...
DANE COOK Coach Zaleski taught me a lot my first year in Louisville, ... I knew the game but from a coaching s...
TOMMY JOHNSON
That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face ... FAY WRAY When I saw that Wrestlemania had broken an indoor attendance record, I just walked into a wrestling ...
LEX LUGER
It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn’t love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had... PATRICIA BRIGGS One night I dreamed a dream.
I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky fl...
MARGARET FISHBACK POWERS When I first found out that I was an Idol finalist, I cried tears of happiness. I was just so happy,...
PIA TOSCANO When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies w...
LEE BYUNG-HUN My whole family came out to watch me after being with him last night and told me to win it for him. ...
KATIE DALY
Where are you going?”He looked over his shoulder at me. “If I stay, you won’t get any sl...
SARAH J. MAAS I think the toughest part for me was when Herschelle said that he obviously looked up to his Captain...
HANSIE CRONJE
That is something that my mother instilled in me at a very young age - to know my self-worth. And I ... IMAN My uncle who helped in a big part of raising me from when I was young, had moved from California, an...
THEO ROSSI
Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go ... SOPHIE WU
My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to m... ANGELA BOWIE He told me if he was going to check out of it, he was going to come to me. When he checked to it, I ...
DWAYNE JARRETT He told me if he was going to check out of it, he was going to come to me. When he checked to it, I ...
DWAYNE JARRETT
I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left... GERRY COONEY He's helped me a lot. He always gave me pointers and tips. He would come to games, and he was my big...
KYLE MCKENZIE My family never took me to church except a couple of times. But when I was 12, I hung out with this ...
BRIAN WELCH I worked with Steven Spielberg on 'AI,' and his level of preparation was extraordinary. He t...
BRENDAN GLEESON
I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interes... NATHANIEL BRANDEN
So I was a stone in the sea. Gravity gave up on keeping me above the surface. I did not try to...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I was always the kid people looked at and said would never amount to anything. For me, that was a ch...
BILL SCHUFFENHAUER
My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things t... CAROL LEE I felt like all of the American people did not believe me because of the things that were said about...
PAULA JONES
My grandpa didn't believe in hugging and kissing, or saying "I love you." His love had to do with th... BILL COSBY I surprised a local minister at the age of 10 when he asked me what I wanted to be and I told him th...
GRAEME CLARK As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th...
SUNIL MITTAL
When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself. DOMHNALL GLEESON He kissed my tears away and whispered sweet words into my ears. Words that he was too afraid to say ...
A. ZAVARELLI They (fellow inmates) were there for me and helped me out when I was in there, ... But it was a bad ...
EDDIE GRIFFIN He tried to go through me with the elbow and I was there to take the charge and the referee gave me ...
BRENDAN HAYWOOD I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m...
TRINI LOPEZ I was told they were from North Carolina. Then, I was told they were from Prince George's County. To...
ERIC MITCHELL
Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there we... CHEVY CHASE When I joined it was at the same time that he came back to the club after running a few sports shops...
COLIN COOPER
