Amy Chua
Related As a child, I loved Christmas only for my parents presents. Now that I'm an adult, I love Christmas ... NICHOLAS A. FERRONI I grew up with music very much in my life. I achieved success by combining my training as an account... ZARIN MEHTA AMY CHUA 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 BILL COSBY MAAJID NAWAZ My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being ob... CASEY AFFLECK MARTHA STEWART My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being ob... CASEY AFFLECK MIRIAM MARGOLYES ZENDAYA The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've neve... JACK KELLEY The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've ... JACK KELLEY As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio... GEORGE MULLER MARGE PIERCY Appearing as a character in my brother’s books taught me something about myself. For most of my li... JOHN ELDER ROBISON DEYTH BANGER I suppose I was artistic as a child. Our house was so full of art and artists that it never occurred... WENDY FROUD My life is ungrateful to me. I do so much for it to be comfortable, and still, it repays me by throw... LANGE WEILE WINONA RYDER FERNANDO BOTERO “Many women's goal is to be the center of attention, when they get fame and catch men eyes its whe... JOANNA AJ Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second nove... KELSEYLEIGH REBER I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really li... KIERAN CULKIN SHASHI THAROOR As is said about most writers, on the one hand, all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and... ELFRIEDE JELINEK DEYTH BANGER SOLA KOSOKO KIRK CAMERON KIRSTEN DUNST JOHN HARSANYI I looked up and gave them a fist because they worked as hard as I did for this. I appreciate everyth... MATT DIBLASIO I have a very irregular life, and by that, I mean I do many different things with my time. No day is... JESSICA STEEN GAIL CARSON LEVINE DWYANE WADE I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I ch... HARI KONDABOLU As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my pa... ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders - three old women who took care of me while my pa... ELIZABETH KAPU'UWAILANI LINDSEY When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gav... HEBER J. GRANT As intense as our work is, I try my hardest to live my life so that people in my office feel they ca... RANEY ARONSON-RATH IDOWU KOYENIKAN MIKE WEIR DOVE CAMERON I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take ... MOUNI ROY AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th... SUNIL MITTAL AMY TAN Lucha libre culture was part of my wrestling upbringing. I'm Filipino, so it wasn't a part o... T. J. PERKINS STEPHEN R. COVEY LOUISE PENNY As a child, a great day is defined by what you get. As an adult a great day is defined by what you g... BILL CORDES I love the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownston... JANE KRAKOWSKI VIKTOR E. FRANKL I came from a happy family with loving parents, so my associations with marriage and children were a... DAVID FURNISH LINDSAY LOHAN BIPASHA BASU The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life... GEORG SOLTI NICOLAUS COPERNICUS Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me,... KIMBERLY WILLIS HOLT VIVIENNE WESTWOOD I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or gr... DARREN BOYD JACK LALANNE My parents are proud to be Canadian, as I am. They had a lot to do with my success and sacrificed a ... DANIEL NESTOR My parents wanted me to work in a bank or as an accountant. BRUNO TONIOLI As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv... SUI HE KATHY ACKER My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an account... 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