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NATHALIE KELLEY I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
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I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tr...
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DANA CARVEY I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. ...
ANN ROMNEY I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a v...
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PASTOR MALDONADO I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am...
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I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I...
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JOEL KINNAMAN My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk fro...
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war ca...
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As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you ca...
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For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very ...
STEWART BUTTERFIELD I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.
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I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never eve...
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I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked w...
GARRY KASPAROV My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. Sh...
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ART ALEXAKIS I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
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JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ...
ALISON BECHDEL Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care...
LARENZ TATE As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS
PER PETTERSON I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.
TOM JONES
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY
I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix... TREVOR NOAH I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the...
BERNARD HILL My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well...
RICHIE HAVENS I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card c...
JIM RENACCI My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... KEKE PALMER My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU ...
BLAKE BAILEY My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ...
JULIAN FELLOWES
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a ... WILLIAM GIBSON My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu...
TIM MURPHY By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very...
ABHISHEK BACHCHAN
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's... ALAN BENNETT
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public schoo... ELLIOTT ABRAMS
I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of ... JOHN CORNFORTH
My grandmother lives with my mother in a gorgeous house in the San Fernando Valley. I am afforded th... KIRSTEN DUNST I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father.
THEODORE C. SORENSEN
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Min... SAM ROCKWELL I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S...
TAIYE SELASI
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa i... GAIL KELLY
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&...
JESSICA HAGEDORN
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN
We were five. You had a plaid dress and your hair...it was in two braids instead of one. My father p... SUZANNE COLLINS
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... DARREN ARONOFSKY
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ... T. BOONE PICKENS
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... WALE My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.
KEVIN KEEGAN
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS
We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And... OMARI HARDWICK My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother...
STEVE TISCH I have worked with his mom and his wife, Anna, (who) is related to some of my relatives. Everybody i...
ANGIE MCDANIEL I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-dist... DAVID HAREWOOD
When I was very young, I remember my mother telling me about a friend of hers in Germany, a pianist ... STEVEN SPIELBERG
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and... CAROLINE KENNEDY I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
BILLY SHERWOOD
We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was a... SANJEEV BHASKAR My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange time...
YANIS VAROUFAKIS My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business o...
AARON KLUG
I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 peop... VERNE TROYER My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, s...
NATHALIE KELLEY I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mi...
MARY GORDON
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tr... HUGO CHAVEZ
I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my co... MIKE PENCE
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother S... SHAWN AMOS
I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We al... DANA CARVEY I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. ...
ANN ROMNEY I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a v...
VICKY MCCLURE My grandfather was a miner for some time. Many in the Miami Valley have ties to the coal mine indust...
CAROL BAUGH We were a very politically active family. My father was one of the first lawyers in South Africa to ...
TREVOR RABIN Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of Lo...
PATSY KENSIT I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
KIKI DEE I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family w...
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South...
PASTOR MALDONADO I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am...
CATERINA MURINO There are very few cases of a young, educated, middle-class North Korean defector who would get a go...
ANDREI LANKOV
I learned construction and carpentry from my father at a young age, so I felt very comfortable and I... MICHAEL CUDLITZ
I'm a third-culture child. It's an interesting concept. Having an American father, a South A... MARIE-CHANTAL CLAIRE I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I mo...
DIPLO I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to ...
STANLEY COHEN In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world...
JOEL KINNAMAN My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk fro...
WLADYSLAW REYMONT I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal lif...
EMILIANO SALINAS
I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war ca... W. G. SEBALD
As I grew up, I learned what worked for me. That's where the short dresses came from. And you ca... TINA TURNER
For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very ... STEWART BUTTERFIELD I grew up half in South Central and half in the San Fernando valley.
CHEECH MARIN
I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never eve... BEYONCE KNOWLES I grew up in the labs, and worked very closely with shuttle components,
DANNY DAVIS I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ...
KIM DICKENS
I started playing chess when I was five years old. I learned the moves from my mother, then worked w... GARRY KASPAROV My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. Sh...
ALEXANDER CHEE My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to s...
JASON CLARKE I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always...
ART ALEXAKIS I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
ABBIE CORNISH
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... DARREN ARONOFSKY I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. ...
DICK GEPHARDT
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead... JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ...
ALISON BECHDEL Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care...
LARENZ TATE As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit...
BETSY DEVOS
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. 
I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating mach... 
The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away. 
I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again, 