I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest in his collar, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, 'My goodness.' I thought that was admirable.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought e... LOU HOLTZ I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there. FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond m... JENNIFER HAIGH I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a... ABIGAIL WASHBURN When I first met Antonin Scalia, I was a small child with one brown ponytail atop my head. Which is ... JOAN LARSEN I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in... JIMMY CARR When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt lik... BAT FOR LASHES I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade C... ELIZABETH WURTZEL I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get ... JEFF LEMIRE My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I thi... DAVID BOWIE I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON You don't know what questions to ask when you start. My first daughter spent three months in intensi... NADINE VOGEL Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, wh... RYAN COOGLER I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns wer... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it... RASHIDA JONES In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns... GAVIN HOOD At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My fath... MICHAEL CAINE I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. PIERCE BROSNAN [His star professes a lifelong interest in the subject matter dating back to Catholic grade school.]... PATRICIA ARQUETTE I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and ... TOM ARAYA I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL Whenever you fly into Louisville, you see a sign that says, 'It's Possible Here.' I reme... BRYSON TILLER I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself... TEDDY SHERINGHAM I guess now that I think back, I used to play priest and be a funny priest. I don't know, I grew... JENNY MCCARTHY The Palestine I know is a place where Christians and Muslims are equal. My mother, a Muslim village ... MAYSOON ZAYID My first job was being a page at 'The Tonight Show.' I saw Jack Paar come out one night and ... REGIS PHILBIN I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all ... WALTER KIRN I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in J... POPE FRANCIS I got live tweeted once by someone who was opposite my home in some rented accommodation. He was act... BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I spent all of my childhood at a performance art camp. Putting on plays, it was more like commedia d... TROY GARITY A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling... JASON NEWSTED I spent a lot of time in the school psychologist's office. I didn't apply myself. My mother ... ROGER GOODELL I'm a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, ... CILLA BLACK I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left... GERRY COONEY I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I... LYNDA RESNICK I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized. BILLY CORGAN My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in f... EDWARD P. JONES My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my... TERRY WOGAN I remember one time when all the nuns in my Catholic grade school got around in a semicircle, me and... CHRIS FARLEY Being that I was raised in the Catholic faith, I am very careful about what I choose. I've turne... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I s... ZELJKO IVANEK An important impression was my father's one Sabbatical year, spent in England and Europe in 1937... PHILIP WARREN ANDERSON There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own... NATE POWELL My most memorable recognition story was in Venice, Italy. My fiance and I were renting a car, and I ... ERICA CERRA I'm theologically in line with the Roman Catholic Church. I believe in the authority of the chur... MARCO RUBIO So for a year I spent all my time hiding from Jack Charlton in the car park practising my skills. CRAIG JOHNSTON I spent the first 33 years of my life with secrets, and lots of them. I spent a great deal of energy... BILL CLEGG My only regrets in my career are that I never spent any time overseas as a reporter, and that I was ... ART COOPER On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 da... EMILE HIRSCH Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place name... NEIL MARSHALL I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my... ANNE PERRY There was a time that I thought I was never going to walk again and I got blessed and got my legs ba... DAN NEWMAN With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and b... STEVE GARVEY Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping... JAMES LECESNE My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statemen... FRANCINE RIVERS In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You&... DANICA MCKELLAR My dad was in these pretty big films that were relevant to my age group. I remember him doing 'R... GEORGIA KING You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a... REGIS PHILBIN I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, lik... GIL SCOTT-HERON Since 2005, I have not spent much time with my family. In fact I have spent more time at the Taj Lan... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was trai... SHEILA E. I spent a lot of time in college studying theater of the absurd and Beckett and Genet, and then I sp... BETTY GILPIN I was pretty disappointed today. I spent all of my time in the area where I caught my fish Friday be... LUKE CLAUSEN I'm a Texan. Some of me is still nestled up there in the Catskill Mountains: the summers I spent... JERRY JEFF WALKER I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was ... ARON RALSTON I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet ... STEVE WILKOS I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to tr... JEB BUSH I always thought time was the most valuable currency, but I realized the people we spent our time on... HUBERT MARTIN My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to ... KEVIN SPACEY I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt ... CHUCK FEENEY I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High... KARA DIOGUARDI Man, I wasn't even close to that! I didn't really see the course until this morning. I rode it this ... BOBBY JULICH I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. A... ABIGAIL WASHBURN I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cu... ROBERT FISK I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after... KEVIN KWAN After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work ... MARIA SEMPLE I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned t... TERRY WOGAN I spent four days in New York with my family, with my mother, and during the process of being there ... PAT RILEY As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd preten... TERI HATCHER My first two years in the CFL, all I thought of was getting back to the NFL - it was like 'I'... DOUG FLUTIE I've spent most of my life in prison. I was a prisoner of my fear and my low self-esteem. GERRY COONEY I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke m... BEAR GRYLLS I was the oldest guy in the field by some 15-years and probably the smallest. There was teasing goin... TERRY FARRELL I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was ... LAURA LINNEY When I was in my single digits, I was subjected to the worst torture you can possibly inflict on a c... TYLER OAKLEY By high school, I was telling everyone, 'Oh, I'm going to be a doctor when I grow up,' b... AJA NAOMI KING I remember the first time I pulled out of my driveway in my grandparents' Nissan Ultimate or Cen... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to... ALAN HOVHANESS Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church. BILL CONDON I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A... MALORIE BLACKMAN Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have s... BURTON CUMMINGS I came up with, 'I am a lost boy from Neverland, usually hanging out with Peter Pan' and rec... RUTH B I think the Protestant churches and the Roman Catholic church have done a lot to change people's int... ROBERT WEXLER Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so ... DANNY PUDI I went to a school called Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. I went because initially I was ... DAISY RIDLEY I was a total nerd growing up. I'd rather sit home and read a novel on New Year's Eve and sa... BETH BRODERICK I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, ... NATASHA LEGGERO
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