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My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use m... JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
Money was always on my mind when I was growing up. So I was always wondering how we were going to af... LEONARDO DICAPRIO
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca... JHUMPA LAHIRI We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic b...
LANCE BURTON When I was a child, I lived in Morocco, and I would always buy a lot of beads from the markets and t...
MARIPOL I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha...
CHRIS ISAAK
I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I ... KARAN JOHAR
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I was so shattered for my children. Kids are so sensitive about their parents anyway, and my kids al... LARRY KING
And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it w... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
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MATT MCGORRY Right after September 11, we went to England, and I was a mess, ... I was really depressed. ... I ca...
JOE PERNICE
I lived with my auntie and my cousin when I was growing up, and they always wore black, and I though... ROMY MADLEY CROFT
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I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he... ELVIS PRESLEY When I was growing up I always wanted to be a waitress. My sister opened a restaurant in Mississippi...
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I really thought, with my background growing up, and my service, and all that, I thought it would be... BOB DOLE Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tap...
MADI DIAZ
I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so man... JOAQUIN PHOENIX When I was growing up, my father would not allow me to get a perm, so I straightened my hair for spe...
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NINA ARIANDA When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG I was trying not to get my head down because it was three minutes in and I knew we had time to come ...
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JENNY LEWIS
I think I really thought I was a boy until I was ten years old because my parents divorced when I wa... ELIZA DUSHKU
My mother was a huge, huge reader. I think I picked up very early how precious it was to write thing... JUDITH VIORST My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I ...
NATALIA TENA My family actually moved a lot growing up. I really only lived in one place every five or six years,...
DAVID LAMBERT
Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and ... EMMA TENNANT
But after a few minutes of convincing myself that I really wanted to go - telling myself that I love... NANCY KERRIGAN
Growing up, I had a very vivid imagination and Leonardo was like my best imaginary friend that I spo... RUBY ROSE It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was ...
CALISTA FLOCKHART
My thighs were huge; they were like rock! Growing up, I was really athletic, and I had a very athlet... GIGI HADID I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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I was crushing on my mentor. Crushing on my older mentor. I had to be out of my mind. He was ... RICHELLE MEAD
When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all... BLACK ELK I was No. 6 in the pecking order and was constantly being scolded, so I got fed up and resigned. My ...
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Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to... GORAN IVANISEVIC My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books...
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MICHELLE MONAGHAN
Growing up, I had an internal struggle with my body because I was really chubby. My sisters were you... CHRISTINA MILIAN
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa... VICTOR MITCHELL
When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist.... RICKY MARTIN
I was so tired once 'Abba' was over and just wanted to be calm and with my children. I marri... AGNETHA FALTSKOG
I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- t... HARUKI MURAKAMI
My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother. GARCELLE BEAUVAIS
I have a lot of older brothers who messed up in different ways in my mother's eyes. So I learned... KELLAN LUTZ And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled ...
CHERYL TIEGS Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard bein...
HEATHER MORRIS
That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing an... DONNA MILLS
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived wit... JOHN HUME
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent ...
JACK REYNOR
My father was an expert hunter, so we ate a lot of wild game when I was growing up in Montana. That ... STEVE ALBINI
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... LAURA MVULA
I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents t... MAEVE BINCHY One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to...
ABRAHAM PAIS I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I ha...
LEE SMITH My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot o...
JOSH RYAN EVANS
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD
When we were children, every day after school, my brother and sister and I would go to my mother'... MARGHERITA MISSONI I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it w...
NATALIA VODIANOVA
When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were jus... MARIAN KEYES My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whisk...
MIKE KRIEGER
I actually had a buzz cut all the way to my junior year in college. I would just buzz my head with a... JACOB DEGROM
I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got marr... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to... PATTI SMITH
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA
My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a w... ISLA FISHER When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T...
JOHN LURIE I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they h... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my... AMY SEDARIS Skip is one of my mentors. I get a lot of my ideas from other teachers, so I have lots of teachers t...
JEFFREY WRIGHT
Christmas means a great deal to me. I was reared in a family that celebrated Christmas to some exten... BILLY GRAHAM
When I was growing up we didn't have a massive house and there were five women running around, so my... LOUIS TOMLINSON When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th...
AHMET ZAPPA
I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do ev... BUCHI EMECHETA
All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work. DAVE GROHL I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI
I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all ... SHAUN WHITE My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a ...
QUINN SHEPHARD One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to...
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MARIETTA BACHMAN
I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done... CAROL BURNETT
From start to finish, my experience with 'Moonlight' has been the most unique thing. 
I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at scie... 
I think maybe my attention span is too long to tweet. 
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly. 
If we can fathom stripping away sexual orientation, skin color, sex, we're all the exact same: W... 
I'm very inquisitive, and I always have questions and need to touch things to see how it works o... 