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I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from.
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CAM NEWTON![]()
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JON MEACHAM![]()
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TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS![]()
I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
YOENIS CESPEDES![]()
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ELON MUSK![]()
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AMANDA SEYFRIED You left me for my mistakes I grew up and changed my bad ways, and I still think your the one for me
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ROBERT H. GRUBBS My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.
BRUCE BEUTLER I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
BILLY SHERWOOD![]()
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
ALEC BALDWIN My father decided I should leave. Of my brothers and sisters I was the only one who was single, so I...
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I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew n...
STEPHANIE SIGMAN![]()
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WALTER HILL I grew up in Gillingham in Kent, and my dad commuted to Victoria Station every day. I remember trave...
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J. D. SOUTHER I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at R...
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I was very happy here with my job in daytime television as Erica Kane. And being able to see my chil...
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Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highl...
JIDENNA I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it ...
OONA CHAPLIN![]()
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every...
JACK BLACK I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &...
PER PETTERSON Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland...
CRAIG HATKOFF![]()
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me ...
ADRIEN BRODY I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always arou...
MICKY DOLENZ![]()
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things ...
JOHN IRVING Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ...
LEONARD ROSE![]()
My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single mornin...
JAY PARINI I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
KIKI DEE![]()
My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what...
IMTIAZ ALI My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond...
MAIRA KALMAN I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said '...
CASSIE STEELE![]()
My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading ...
CHELSEA CLINTON![]()
I grew up watching my father work, and learning from him what good quality is. I took from him the p...
DIEGO DELLA VALLE I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - ...
JANE SIBERRY I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am...
CATERINA MURINO![]()
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ...
RUPERT MURDOCH![]()
I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father,...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH The lads say my bum is the equivalent of one 'Erica
BILL BEAUMONT I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say...
ALEXI GIANNOULIAS![]()
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i...
KEKE PALMER![]()
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ...
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I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ...
BONO![]()
The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fou...
GEORGE MICHAEL I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.
TOM VERLAINE I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal lif...
EMILIANO SALINAS My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I...
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ELENA ROGER![]()
As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.
PATTI SMITH![]()
My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Ch...
JONI EARECKSON TADA![]()
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up...
HUGH JACKMAN I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI![]()
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught ...
ERNEST ISTOOK As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in...
ASIF ALI ZARDARI I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favori...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON![]()
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
ROGER MOORE I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ...
ANEURIN BARNARD I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and an...
RASHID JOHNSON My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be...
DAVID RUDISHA My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my...
EDDIE MATHEWS![]()
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe...
JUDITH BUTLER![]()
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha...
BARRY WHITE![]()
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J. G. BALLARD
JAMES COBURN
I grew up in Vancouver, man. That's where more than half of my style comes from. SETH ROGEN
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They w... JANINE DI GIOVANNI I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I on... MADONNA CICCONE
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played... CAM NEWTON
I grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. RYAN REYNOLDS My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when ...
KAPIL SHARMA Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always...
ART ALEXAKIS
I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle ... JON MEACHAM
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew... MARGOT ROBBIE I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.
MARIA GRAZIA CUCINOTTA I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our loc...
TYLER JAMES WILLIAMS
I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me. YOENIS CESPEDES
My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering enviro... ELON MUSK
I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and... CAROLINE KENNEDY I can't even give my father a proper gift. Every single Father's Day means so much to me. I&...
KYRIE IRVING
I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's op... JULES FEIFFER Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care...
LARENZ TATE Singing was my first love and I never even considered it after I started acting, but now I'm bri...
AMANDA SEYFRIED You left me for my mistakes I grew up and changed my bad ways, and I still think your the one for me
DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ I use every single thing that Alfred Hitchcock taught me in my acting career... I am very grateful f...
TIPPI HEDREN I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to th...
DALE T. MORTENSEN
I grew up in Vancouver, which is a pretty liberal, gay Mecca of the West coast. There's San Fran... AVAN JOGIA I grew up as an only child with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father h...
MONA SIMPSON
I grew up to have my father's looks - my fathers speech patterns - my father's posture - my father's... JULES FEIFFER I love Erica to death. She's one of my best friends, and I love her even more now.
KAYLIN AUSTEN My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ...
ALISON BECHDEL
I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by th... DOLLY PARTON I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wan...
JOHN TESH My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS
I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an ... MAX VON ESSEN I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage ac...
LAURA LINNEY I wanted to be one of the best players of my era at my position. And I did that, and I earned that. ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS
My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my fat... ELIZA DUSHKU As I grew older, farms in Kentucky provided me with many jobs in hauling hay and in cutting tobacco....
ROBERT H. GRUBBS My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN I grew up hoping that my father might win a Nobel Prize.
BRUCE BEUTLER I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.
BILLY SHERWOOD
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks. ALEC BALDWIN My father decided I should leave. Of my brothers and sisters I was the only one who was single, so I...
MAHDI AHMEDI
I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew n... STEPHANIE SIGMAN
My Father was a great boxer, and I grew up watching the fights, live and on TV too. WALTER HILL I grew up in Gillingham in Kent, and my dad commuted to Victoria Station every day. I remember trave...
DOUGLAS HODGE My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to...
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at R...
DAVID GINOLA My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me intereste...
LAURA CARMICHAEL I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the ...
APPARAT
I was very happy here with my job in daytime television as Erica Kane. And being able to see my chil... SUSAN LUCCI I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Arg...
J. D. PARDO
My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my ... BOBBIE ANN MASON I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ...
WYCLEF JEAN
Every single place that's brushed upon me has made me the artist that I am - from Nigerian Highl... JIDENNA I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it ...
OONA CHAPLIN
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... JACK BLACK I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &...
PER PETTERSON Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland...
CRAIG HATKOFF
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me ... ADRIEN BRODY I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always arou...
MICKY DOLENZ
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things ... JOHN IRVING Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ...
LEONARD ROSE
My father was a Baptist preacher, and he used to read the King James Bible to me every single mornin... JAY PARINI I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
KIKI DEE
My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what... IMTIAZ ALI My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond...
MAIRA KALMAN I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said '...
CASSIE STEELE
My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading ... CHELSEA CLINTON
I grew up watching my father work, and learning from him what good quality is. I took from him the p... DIEGO DELLA VALLE I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - ...
JANE SIBERRY I have a dream of re-creating the fantastic family I grew up in with my brother and my parents. I am...
CATERINA MURINO
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH
I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father,... TAMMY DUCKWORTH The lads say my bum is the equivalent of one 'Erica
BILL BEAUMONT I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say...
ALEXI GIANNOULIAS
My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing i... KEKE PALMER
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 remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO
The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fou... GEORGE MICHAEL I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.
TOM VERLAINE I was born in 1976. I grew up in a traditional Mexican family. As a child, I had a pretty normal lif...
EMILIANO SALINAS My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I...
ANTONIA THOMAS At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into...
ELENA ROGER
As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister. PATTI SMITH
My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Ch... JONI EARECKSON TADA
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up... HUGH JACKMAN I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI
My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught ... ERNEST ISTOOK As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in...
ASIF ALI ZARDARI I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favori...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON
My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons. ROGER MOORE I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ...
ANEURIN BARNARD I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL My father ran a CB radio business. I grew up in a cluttered space that was filled with radios and an...
RASHID JOHNSON My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be...
DAVID RUDISHA My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my...
EDDIE MATHEWS
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces tha... BARRY WHITE
My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-d... J. G. BALLARD
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. Y... 
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the cpourage to follow the talent to the dark places where it... 