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Related I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my p... GAIL DEVERS The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, ... SIDNEY CROSBY My brother and I used to ride around in a half-ton cattle truck, listening to Waylon, so when he die... GENE WEBB My parents always told me I could be anything I wanted to be. CAROLE KING My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid ... MARCO RUBIO My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I woul... TED LIGETY After God, the only people i worship are my parents because the have done things only God can do for... OLASOT My brother and sister-in-law started the church in Warwick and that was when we became part of it. F... GARY DEGRAIDE I used to think I grew up to be a man because I never really had a dad, and my mother was always at ... (I.V.) EDWARD ANDREW MOLNAR IV I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence. JEANNETTE WALLS My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ... BETTY CUTHBERT We had already planned my wedding when my brother passed away in 2012. When you're grieving, you... YAYA DACOSTA My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibiti... BAR PALY God spoke to me and told me I should make a library for my church, Woods Presbyterian, because I had... FRANCES GRIGSBY The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents o... BOBBY ORR My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things ... BETTY CUTHBERT My parents always knew that I wanted to act, so it didn't really come as a big surprise. The onl... RUMER WILLIS My younger brother runs a guesthouse, and my sister is a janitor. I have not given them money becaus... CHEN GUANGBIAO That night after my parents had kissed me good night and closed my door, I got out of bed and took f... SHEILA MOON Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have fo... OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I was extremely uncomfortable when my parents asked me to interpret for them, ... We have got to und... LELAND YEE I have only one brother, but both my parents had huge families. (One of my grandmothers had) 44 gran... BONNIE BROTHERS My brother and I had a reputation for telling real bad jokes. We told the worst jokes in town. As a ... WALLY HIRSTEIN I grew up seeing my parents perform and sing, and I just always wanted to be singing, too. Music has... LEAH LABELLE My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there ... JIMMY CHAMBERLIN Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my song... CHRISTINE MCVIE I believe God has a path for me. He's always had a path for me, and I've always been in the ... JUDITH JAMISON It was bad, real bad. I had never been away from my house for that long. I called my daddy and told ... ANDY MARTE I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my car... ANGELA BASSETT My parents had a pub and each Sunday there was an accordionist. They have told me that when I was in... TOOTS THIELEMANS I've always had a passion for giving back. It's a family tradition that comes from my devout... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO My brother told me about this and brought me in, he's in a band that wants to use this place. BECKY MAYER Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, m... DANA PERINO I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our... FRANKA POTENTE I plainly felt that, had God given me such a retirement with the companion I desired, I should have ... JOHN WESLEY I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me e... RONALDINHO I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a g... ALEX BORSTEIN Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 Who belongs to the Church? Who is my true brot... ROBERT MACCOLL ADAMS I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... MANDY MOORE The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- va... CLAUDIA GRAY My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN My parents always encouraged me to do what I wanted. KATE CURRAN its the passion in my heart that makes me crazy
its the passion in my learning that makes me intelli... LARISSA CONSOLAGIO Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and... OSCAR PISTORIUS Not only is she an overachiever, but she's also a real good athlete. I mean, probably as far as raw ... JACK CHILDRESS God tells me that I need to provide for my family, discipline and teach my children, and love my wif... KEVIN DEYOUNG My brother always wanted to see me do well, and he always encouraged me. KATE CURRAN I always wanted a little brother because I felt like the little brother had to do everything. PAUL PIERCE I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w... PATRICIA RICHARDSON I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopte... BIG SMO I'm lucky that I hooked up with my husband because he not only helps me but there's a joy for him as... SUSAN LUCCI If my brother and I wanted money in our pockets, we had to get jobs - my first was at 15, at Burger ... QUEEN LATIFAH From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ... GAVIN O'CONNOR Everyone in my class wanted me to draw for them. That's when I knew I had talent. D.C. WORTHEN I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life. BILLY HORSCHEL My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books... ALEJANDRO AMENABAR I believe in miracles. At the age of 13, I was on holiday in Moscow with my mother. It was the only ... OLGA KURYLENKO I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally... TERRI BLACKSTOCK I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that thi... PATRICK CHAN When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not ... DAVID MORRISSEY God's given me so much talent, and my height doesn't define my skill set. I believe that God... RUSSELL WILSON My family is everything. I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... bec... RONALDINHO I've grown up seeing the pros and cons but I love it and I've always wanted to act. Througho... LILY COLLINS I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life bro... JUSSIE SMOLLETT I always felt that at the moment I was born, God must have blinked. He missed the occasion and never... REGINA BRETT My parents have been married for 50-plus years, and I wanted to have what they had. DAVID FURNISH I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've ... NEYMAR I knew my own mother had been in the theater for a while and had taught children, because she used t... EVE ARDEN So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of ... DUSTIN HOFFMAN It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I... ALANNA UBACH What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was rea... JUAN FELIPE HERRERA For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was ba... JENNIFER LYNCH Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play te... ROSALYN SUSSMAN YALOW It's a heck of an accomplishment. My brother had told me all year that he's not only a great player,... BOB LLOYD I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father... DAVID CHARVET My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents. GAVIN O'CONNOR My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was alwa... JENNIFER JOHNSTON My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly wo... MARILYNNE ROBINSON I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my t... LUKE FORD My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expe... NANCY KERRIGAN When people dream something as a child, it doesn’t always come true. But my childhood dream of wha... PHIL ROBERTSON I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs... TORY BURCH God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle... SHANNON L. ALDER Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to... GORAN IVANISEVIC I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ... SANDRA CISNEROS My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school... MARTIN GARRIX I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue... PAT CONROY I feel that God has given me a very special opportunity that I should not let go to waste. I use the... MATTIE STEPANEK My childhood was great, honestly. I have all these incredible memories of my childhood. I was an onl... ACTION BRONSON I wanted my children to understand that not all children get everything they ask for or want. That n... DENISE SMITH Religion is not something that you or I can touch. Religion is the worship of God—therefore a matt... MATTHEW KELLY I have a lot of energy. I knew the odds were against us but I knew I had to do something else becaus... ANNMARIE MORSE I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons j... JENNIFER DAMIANO My brother, who's a violinist now, was the real ham, the real performer of the family. His passi... PETER DINKLAGE I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all ... SHAUN WHITE My daughter told me I should take her out to dinner. So we had coffee at McDonald's. CY ULLMER I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... MAYER HAWTHORNE I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay. JENNA BUSH I always told him he should have done a video on how to be a racehorse owner. He had a passion for i... BOB BAFFERT We lost our Alan so senselessly. And we just don't understand it. I mean, this happens to other peop... CATHY KRUSE
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contr... GAIL DEVERS People see me now and ask if I'm still running. I may look like I am, but I'm really not. Pe... GAIL DEVERS I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody... GAIL DEVERS Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans ... GAIL DEVERS While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a m... GAIL DEVERS I never read my press when I was competing. I never got caught up in what I was doing at that moment... GAIL DEVERS It's a challenge between me and the hurdle, and the hurdle has always won. GAIL DEVERS I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my p... GAIL DEVERS It's totally different now, traveling to different meets and different cities and actually being... GAIL DEVERS I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me... GAIL DEVERS I don't have a thyroid anymore. I had radioactive iodine treatment, which destroyed my thyroid. ... GAIL DEVERS A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was ... GAIL DEVERS It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe. GAIL DEVERS I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine. GAIL DEVERS We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my k... GAIL DEVERS In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something... GAIL DEVERS It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do. GAIL DEVERS Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat... GAIL DEVERS Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision... GAIL DEVERS Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. GAIL DEVERS In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years... GAIL DEVERS I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease... GAIL DEVERS I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was... GAIL DEVERS Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans ... GAIL DEVERS I'm 39 but I'm not over the hill yet. GAIL DEVERS Obviously, that's the slowest I've ever run. But it's OK. GAIL DEVERS This race was just feeling my way through. I'm 39, but I'm not over the hill yet. The one title I di... GAIL DEVERS [In the final, however, Kirkland surprised the field from Lane 1, crossing in 12.42 seconds, with De... 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GAIL COLLINS Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough.... GAIL SHEEHY If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. GAIL SHEEHY Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h... GAIL HAMILTON Everything seems simpler from a distance. GAIL TSUKIYAMA Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and... GAIL HAMILTON Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre. GAIL GODWIN One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you... GAIL GODWIN Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer va... GAIL PARENT There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prost... GAIL SHEEHY To be tested is good. 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There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitemen... GAIL COLLINS If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. GAIL SHEEHY For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues th... GAIL COLLINS Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do a... GAIL CARRIGER I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's reci... GAIL SIMMONS I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened... GAIL COLLINS What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cance... GAIL PORTER Bald is the new black! GAIL PORTER Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $70... GAIL COLLINS There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts. 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GAIL DAYTON How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the trave... GAIL CARRIGER The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, ... GAIL COLLINS Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, a... GAIL HAMILTON Overall we had a great team effort. It was good to get the win under tough conditions. GAIL ANDERSEN We were all ready to play. Hopefully we'll schedule it for next week sometime. GAIL ANDERSEN Obviously, their speed up front was something we weren't ready for. GAIL ANDERSEN In spite of the young lineup, we will be competitive and have a quicker overall team. Last year was ... GAIL ANDERSEN We will have a lot of new faces in the mix. We have good team chemistry, new guys are finding their ... GAIL ANDERSEN We're a young team. We'll grow from this, and it will only help us in the future. GAIL ANDERSEN We looked like a completely different team in the second half. We built momentum and started attacki... GAIL ANDERSEN The team never quit, and three team members played an exceptional game, all over the field. GAIL ANDERSEN It was one of those precision plays that unveil themselves about once a match. It all came together. GAIL ANDERSEN For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to ge... GAIL COLLINS You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off... GAIL COLLINS In the case of my husband, we found that facing a life-threatening illness prodded us to make a dram... GAIL SHEEHY Some of our national heroines were defined by the fact that they never nested - they were peripateti... GAIL COLLINS Eventually, all mentor-disciple relationships are meant to pull apart, usually sometime in the mid-3... GAIL SHEEHY The delights of self-discovery are always available. 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