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ADRIEN BRODY When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin. MING-NA WEN I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my l... CAITLYN JENNER My parents' marriage was already shaky when I came along. They split up when I was five, and I d... ROBERT WEBB My dad was real hard on me. He wasn't really big on congratulating and stuff like that. STEFON DIGGS I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and '... BILL BRYSON I love working for Fox News, and I feel like I play for the Yankees every day. I'm with the best... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids an... MEGYN KELLY II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, s... NATHALIE KELLEY The only day I remember of my parents' marriage was the day my dad walked out. As I stood there ... ELLIE GOULDING I like to watch the Fox News Network. I like 'Nightline.' I like to watch 'The Sopranos,... ERIK ESTRADA My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's ... TATIANA MASLANY I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou... BEL POWLEY I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-betw... STEVEN YEUN I guess you'd say I'm a gearhead. It's not just guitars; I have five or six drum sets, a... DARON MALAKIAN I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-dist... DAVID HAREWOOD 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'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favo... LIEV SCHREIBER I grew up watching a lot of stuff, like 'Teen Titans.' JEREMY SHADA When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with h... MICHAEL DIRDA I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I ... OLIVER NORTH I think that this is more real. I grew up in Garland and went to Garland High School, and I feel rig... LARRY FRAZIER My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses... TONY HAWK I'm the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids wat... MARLON WAYANS So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to re... CATIE CURTIS I'm Bam Margera. And I feel like kicking my dad's butt all day today. BAM MARGERA I feel like movies, if there's any kind of budget whatsoever, there's so much sitting, and I... MARY-LOUISE PARKER My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I... DANIEL RADCLIFFE I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that... BRYSON TILLER I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work ... BEYONCE KNOWLES I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were tradit... GAIL COLLINS Who's my hero? That's a great question... Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he's ... TOM BRADY When I hear people say that Fox News is right wing, I know that's not true, because I'm the ... SHEPARD SMITH I train six to seven hours every single day. I wake up six days a week and know that it's going ... BRYAN CLAY I've always loved video games. I played 'Ms. Pac-man' with my dad, and I Ioved 'Gala... AISHA TYLER I grew up in Northern California - Marin County, Tiburon. And it's interesting. It's a very ... MAZ JOBRANI I do watch a lot of Fox News. I like Charles Krauthammer and Bill O'Reilly. MARY TYLER MOORE I can't remember exactly, but the White House is not keen on people going on Fox News. It's ... AUSTAN GOOLSBEE My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.... LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so ... TIM VINE I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a... PETE TOWNSHEND I'm not a person who naturally loves to wake up in the morning and go 'Yeah, I'm going t... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT I love playing 'Madame Vastra.' Although I do suffer, spending three-and-a-half hours in mak... NEVE MCINTOSH People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain B... P. J. HARVEY I lost contact with my father for many years because of apartheid. For, like, six years, I didn'... TREVOR NOAH We're all comedy fans in my family. My parents mainly wouldn't let me watch stuff that was e... TINA FEY I don't look at negative comments because my parents and family don't let me. My big sister ... MILLIE BOBBY BROWN I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER I sleep five or six hours a night, then crash at the weekend. I'm learning to eat properly and e... ELISE ANDREW I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about... ALANE FERGUSON I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again... CRAIG THOMPSON My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, w... JOHN BOEHNER People who grew up watching Disney films like myself, there are films that are certain benchmarks in... MANDY MOORE I grew up listening to oldies, like Motown. That's from my mom. RYAN LOCHTE I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different co... Q'ORIANKA KILCHER I really, really like 'In Rainbows.' But I also really like 'OK Computer' as a sort ... PHOEBE TONKIN I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kin... SARAH HYLAND I like a full house because it's how I grew up. I'm one of six children. KATE SPADE I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe ... TED OLSON I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this... AISHA TYLER I come to work every day thinking I have to earn my job, and I really believe that. I don't have... ADENA FRIEDMAN I do like sci-fi, and I do like horror - those are my favorite genres. Good horror, though, not like... MARK PELLEGRINO It's like these ideas, these characters, kind of bubble up inside me, and one day they're no... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but ... MADELINE ZIMA I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I... IAN MILLAR My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ... WYNTON MARSALIS We pick up about five or six parents a day. We hit about 15 percent of the parents in a matter of a ... BILL MIENER We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue ... CAMERON WINKLEVOSS My earliest memories of music are probably my dad listening to a bunch of outlaw country, but also o... CHRIS STAPLETON My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, '... DANE DEHAAN Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that. DAMON WAYANS, JR. My parents treat me like I'm 14. They make me clean my room and stuff like that. They're always like... PETE WENTZ I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m... DEEPAK CHOPRA I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the 'black people's CNN.' Well no... SAUL WILLIAMS I feel like I almost didn't grow up in the business, because my parents worked so hard at shelte... BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made m... KID ROCK I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, p... JON HAMM My son is in a band, and he's a singer, and his vocals... they're screaming-growling stuff..... BRUCE DICKINSON Every Friday, my dad would rent three videos. Me and my brother would ask for something with guns or... CHRISTIAN COOKE My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and ... JENNIFER GARNER When I grew up, my dad always used to watch 'Star Trek' and any and every sci-fi show you co... ERICA CERRA I grew up in Gillingham in Kent, and my dad commuted to Victoria Station every day. I remember trave... DOUGLAS HODGE For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable -... CONNIE BRITTON My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad. MIKE MCGAVICK I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in... MICHAEL STRAHAN I haven't really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything t... ARIEL LEVY Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity&... DAVID SHUSTER I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care... NICOLE SCHERZINGER My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post of... LLOYD BLANKFEIN With all the stuff that's going on in the world - after I watch the news, read the news, and lis... BETTY GILPIN I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th... COCO LEE I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we'r... JASON REITMAN A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th... JHUMPA LAHIRI
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JEFFREY GITOMER At the same time, it's a family story and more of an epic. I needed the third-person. I tried to... JEFFREY EUGENIDES I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, ... JEFFREY GITOMER What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestr... JEFFREY KLUGER The buyer, the prospect, the customer expects you to have knowledge of their stuff, not just your st... JEFFREY GITOMER I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keat... JEFFREY TAMBOR I wanted to be a writer, to write these stories that would make people see the world in a different ... JEFFREY SKOLL Social media presents an opportunity for business people to connect and know each other prior to a p... JEFFREY GITOMER The debts are unaffordable. If they won't cancel the debts I would suggest obstruction; you do i... JEFFREY SACHS I have a green thumb. I really like to get into the shrubs, the bushes, and really cultivate. JEFFREY DONOVAN What would surprise a lot of people about me... I'm a gardener! I have a green thumb. I really l... JEFFREY DONOVAN I grew up in an upper-middle-class town with a population around 12,000. My high school held around ... JEFFREY GITOMER The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet. JEFFREY TATE Bad science and bad religion simply swap roles, the former proclaiming Truth, the latter worshiping ... JEFFREY SATINOVER We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then went into the world's greatest depression. We hav... JEFFREY SACHS Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. The desire and ability to press on has and a... JEFFREY FRY Many people see themselves as a rose, when all they are is just a prick. JEFFREY FRY My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home - and then watched that ... JEFFREY KLUGER The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because bo... JEFFREY ZELDMAN My website, my email magazine, my blog, my books, my corporate seminars, and my public seminars all ... JEFFREY GITOMER Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES If you like a person at their worst, you will love them at their best. JEFFREY FRY You know that you're a true friend when somebody says "But what about that wart on the end of his no... JEFFREY MICHAEL Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind. JEFFREY EUGENIDES We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you e... JEFFREY EUGENIDES The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and ... LORD JEFFREY Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one. LORD JEFFREY I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning... JEFFREY ARCHER It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones rooted in fr... JEFFREY BELL Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on r... JEFFREY EUGENIDES There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Jus... JEFFREY KOTTLER Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. JEFFREY MONTGOMERY Good design can't fix broken business models. JEFFREY VEEN