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SøREN KIERKEGAARD I would do musicals in high school where there was dancing, and I would sing my verse, and then they... BETTY GILPIN I like to be completely exhausted when I go to bed, so if I worked out and I had a long day, that... ELSA HOSK I'd lie in bed in my dormitory and grab at bits of my body, wanting to tear them off... I was so... MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm not afraid to eat breakfast at three in the morning. As a kid, I used to go to bed at 8 P.M.... TAYLOR HICKS I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL At Marshall Field in Chicago, I had them take a big bed into the menswear department, one with black... WAVY GRAVY When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and m... OLYMPIA DUKAKIS I thought over and over about what I was going to do when Carly overdosed and died. How would we go ... DINA KUCERA I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and t... TONY LA RUSSA I realized when I stopped Charlie's Angels, I didn't do series for a couple of years. And I realized... KATE JACKSON I knew what I wanted to do when I was 13 and I had to go through four years of high school to get ou... JOHN MAYER I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at chu... LAMORNE MORRIS Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd kno... PALOMA FAITH I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w... MARGARET THATCHER When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was g... ASHLEY BENSON I was seeing everything through pain. 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DONALD CERRONE I was pregnant when I did the first shot of Proof, and I started to show by the end. It was very imp... GWYNETH PALTROW I went to public school my whole life, graduated high school with my class. Growing up, I'd go t... SHAILENE WOODLEY I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said her daugh... MARCELLA ANDERSON I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a be... BYRON KATIE I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give ... PAUL JOHNSON When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the 'Golden Globes' and I would dress... LEA MICHELE She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I wo... CLIVE CUSSLER My eighth-grade year, I was home-schooled. I'd basically wake up, go to the gym in the morning, ... JACOB DALTON Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lo... SARAH DESSEN I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the nigh... MARINA ABRAMOVIC My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazi... GARRY MARSHALL For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you... LEBRON JAMES My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as ... JOHN MACKEY All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I'm buzzing. As a young man it was ... DAVID MORRISSEY When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ... DEONTAY WILDER I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL (when talking to a fans mother who was complaining that her daughter would no longer go in the showe... ALFRED HITCHCOCK When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly... CHRIS LILLEY I was taken out of school by my dad when I was 11 and lived in Mexico City, then later in Paris. I w... MICHAEL HEIZER There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian... MARIE BRENNAN I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing.... BARNEY ROSS My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she'd play when ... TOM HOLLAND My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had... GEMMA ARTERTON I was very, very young, living in India. I'd been put to bed in the afternoon, and I had that lo... DIANA RIGG I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's... JO BRAND I did a severe amount of plays in high school. I was in every single show that my drama club produce... CHRIS WOOD I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, sin... HAMILTON E. JAMES I've changed in my sympathies since I've become a mother myself. In high school I went throu... SARAH DESSEN I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and... GEORGE CARLIN I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, ... JIMMY DEAN My dream was to draw for 'The Beano.' When I was 10 years old, I started drawing cartoon str... NICK PARK I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my scho... IMTIAZ ALI At midnight every night, I would methodically leave the house for a couple hours' walk, come bac... BILL CALLAHAN In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, &... PAUL HAGGIS The only music we ever listened to out in the piney woods was Roy Acuff and the Grand Ole Opry. That... GEORGE JONES I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the ... STEPHANIE SEYMOUR I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little c... JENNIFER SAUNDERS In India, I was living in a little hut, about six feet by seven feet. It had a canvas flap instead o... JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN By the time I auditioned for 'Aliens in America,' the July 7 bombing had happened in London.... ADHIR KALYAN As I laid in the hospital bed I started thinking that I had a show to do. I was hoping the Doctor wo... BEN VEREEN I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home... SONJA SOHN I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in ... PETA WILSON When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn&... AFROJACK When I was working at Sony, I used to live near the beach. I'd get up in the morning, walk my do... JON FELTHEIMER I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe... LAINIE KAZAN I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the do... GEENA DAVIS I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd ... VINCE VAUGHN When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the p... LOU BROCK When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling;... JUSTINA MACHADO I was sleeping in a water bed for a couple of years, recommended by my doctor. I was never comfortab... JO NESBO I grew up on the west side of Detroit - 6 mile and Wyoming - so I was really in the 'hood. And I... BIG SEAN I was chubby in high school. I used to go to my information technology class, and I would type reall... TOBIAS JESSO, JR. I was trying not to get my head down because it was three minutes in and I knew we had time to come ... LINDSAY THOMPSON If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place a... MARTIN LAWRENCE By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a ... 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ALICE WALKER Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere. ALICE WALKER Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about... ALICE WALKER When we have pleaded for understanding, our character has been distorted; when we have asked for sim... ALICE WALKER The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout. ALICE WALKER She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air. I s... ALICE WALKER God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more ... ALICE WALKER His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64 ALICE WALKER I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you ... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER Like I said...fine with me. ALICE WALKER Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237 ALICE WALKER Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. ALICE WALKER The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this... ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER The more I wonder, the more I love. ALICE WALKER Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ... ALICE WALKER Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing. ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people... ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th... ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo... ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama... ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde... ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER