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FAITH EVANS I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we did... ABBEY LINCOLN BRENE BROWN LINDSAY DAVENPORT LEA MICHELE JOSEPHINE BAKER NIKKI SIXX At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't... KERRY STOKES There were times when we didn't have hot water or a phone line. But I guarantee you, we always h... BARRY JENKINS I wasn't really into school that much. I was in this building having to cram knowledge I didn... KSI I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes... OLESYA RULIN ELVIS COSTELLO THE WEEKND DANA CARVEY I grew up in the middle of dairy country in Wisconsin, about as far from any major metropolitan area... DAVID WROBLEWSKI I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was thei... JAMES BADGE DALE 'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. ... BARRY MANILOW I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to li... JENNY LEWIS HAROLD PINTER Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed. EDDIE PEREZ To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spa... TODD MCFARLANE People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring count... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w... BENMONT TENCH When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me ... ZULEIKHA ROBINSON I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn&... ERIC AVERY I wasn't really geeky. In terms of the high school hierarchy, I was very much in the middle grou... CALLAN MCAULIFFE CHRIS EVANS I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ... LAURA RICKETTS Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ... BILL SKARSGARD CARRE OTIS CHARLES SCHWAB MALIN AKERMAN EVE ARNOLD CHUCK BERRY I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't kno... BONNIE MCKEE JOYCE CAROL OATES I left school early in my last year before I took my A-levels. I wasn't expelled. It was just a ... TOM STURRIDGE I lived on a farm in Illinois, and we didn't have a lot of money. But I lived vicariously throug... MELISSA MCCARTHY TONY DANZA The Olympics was always my be-all and end-all, so when I won, it was the best feeling in the world. ... JADE JONES SPIKE LEE There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu... CRAIG ROBINSON There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was ... KATE MICUCCI I wasn't really interested in girls. Only football. I was just enjoying football all the time. T... PAUL POGBA ELIZABETH GASKELL SALLY KELLERMAN Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn&... LANCE HENRIKSEN I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even t... ADAM RICKITT I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to o... NINA BAWDEN From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far betw... NAYA RIVERA I wasn't all that familiar with the 'Texas Chainsaw' franchise, and I knew who Leatherfa... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO MICHAEL DELL I was raised on a family farm in western Minnesota. So I didn't have the background to prepare m... GLEN TAYLOR ELIZABETH GILBERT We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I go... EMMANUELLE BEART I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small villag... PETE BURNS JOSH DUHAMEL My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it ra... MISTY COPELAND I really wasn't on the Dallas set much. I did three or four episodes so I didn't see too muc... TED SHACKELFORD ZAYN MALIK That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my ... MANUEL MOROUN I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for... J. R. SMITH My first job was as a waitress, and I waitressed for a long, long time. I was a very bad waitress. I... CHERYL HINES FERGIE GARY WRIGHT I grew up in Solihull, on the edge of what was then the Birmingham conurbation. It was a good place ... STEWART LEE I grew up in Mammoth Lakes, and they shot an episode up there, and I was hanging around when I was o... TREVOR DONOVAN People ask me what it's like to be tall, and I don't know what to say because I don't kn... ELIZABETH DEBICKI FRANK DILLANE I figured the songs wouldn't make much of a splash. I didn't think 'Take Me To Church... HOZIER We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s a... F. GARY GRAY TRACEY EMIN AISHA TYLER MALIN AKERMAN I really didn't even have time to get that many lessons, to be honest, because I was suddenly on... CAROLINE CORR NICOLE SCHERZINGER I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I a... DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar s... SHANICE WILLIAMS I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry. JOHNNY RAMONE
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I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't g... 
I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologicall... 
I grew up in the Midwest, so we really didn't have much hockey going on. 
I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable... 
I started realizing that I wasn't so dumb; rather, most people simply didn't know the answer... 
I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very c... 
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country. 
I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante... 
I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and ... 
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. L... 
I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul... 
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's ... 
When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worke... 
I was a sickly child, not very strong physically. I wasn't really the greatest in school. I didn... 
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... 
I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycle... 
I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarr... 
I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program i... 
I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on. 
I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dea... 
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'Kiss Land' wasn't about what people wanted to hear on the radio. It was the state of mi... 
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There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fractur... 
I had dropped out of school and was a runaway, so I didn't have family to fall back on if I didn... 
I bought all the books, but I probably knew on the first day that law school wasn't for me. I di... 
I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have... 
I look for a sense of reality with everything I did. I didn't work in a studio, I didn't lig... 
I wanted to play blues. But I wasn't blue enough. I wasn't like Muddy Waters, people who rea... 
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. A... 
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When I was on 'All My Children,' we did a thing for 'Seventeen Magazine' where a gir... 
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Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. 
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Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. 
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I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny. 
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Practice without improvement is meaningless. 
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Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart. 
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