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Related I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian. STEVEN SEAGAL Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an astronaut. DREW VAN ACKER It shouldn't have mattered, not when Miel and the other girls in his class wore jeans more than they... ANNA-MARIE MCLEMORE If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER I was eccentric, even as a kid. I was an early reader, an early talker. I was very curious in a way ... MICHAEL J. FOX When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually... STEVEN WRIGHT When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually... STEPHEN WRIGHT As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ... TAYLOR WILSON Ever since I was a little kid, I've felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bough... PAUL FEIG I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I... BILL NYE I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I sti... BILL NYE I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting. GASPARD ULLIEL As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe. ZENDAYA When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000. EDGAR WRIGHT My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 o... DANIEL BRUHL I was acting since I was a kid, going to drama classes and being involved in every school play and m... YVONNE STRAHOVSKI Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the ... DAVID COPPERFIELD I grew up on Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon. There wasn't a space program or NASA when I was a kid, FRED HAISE But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER When I was a kid growing up in the States in the late '70s and early '80s, as soon as 'D... JOHN BARROWMAN As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a ... BILL WATTERSON I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, bu... JONATHAN LETHEM When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I woul... SIMON SINEK 'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into... PAUL WESLEY I've always been like that. 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OLIVIER THEYSKENS When I was a kid, and I was odd, the default assumption was that I was odd, not that I was gay. Now ... DAN SAVAGE I went to a movie called 'Destination Moon,' and that was the beginning for me. I always wanted to g... ROGER CROUCH I can't really believe it happened so fast. I watched the tournament when I was a little kid, the wh... DYLAN CAREW I like to exhilarate the audience like Groucho Marx exhilarated me when I was a kid. Also, I enjoy d... FRANK FERRANTE I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. LIZ PHAIR He was definitely ahead of his age, way ahead of his age. He was a very driven young man at an early... DAVE LUNDEY When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wan... EMANUEL STEWARD But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ... TIM MCGRAW I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately. SAM SHEPARD I was definitely blown away when I saw that I was going to get a kid who was the Southwest (regional... DEREK COFFEY When I was a kid, I was so homesick at all times. KENDALL JENNER I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realiz... RICHARD LINKLATER I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised ... YUL VAZQUEZ When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an Englis... AASIF MANDVI I had a bilateral lisp, and I was overweight. I was the kid who played with the flowers on the groun... JEFFREY TAMBOR I loved being a test pilot, and so being an astronaut was - was not my end point in, you know, eithe... GREGORY H. JOHNSON I was so gullible as a kid. MICHAEL KEATON As a young kid, I had a great background. My grandfather was a minister; I have two uncles that were... TONY DUNGY When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to televisi... ROBERT PINSKY I must confess, I was born at a very early age. GROUCHO MARX I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be a... DAVID MACKAY We were so poor when I was a kid that I had a sister who was stamped, 'Made In Japan.' PETE ROSE I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ... MIKE WALLACE I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty g... MALUMA I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundarie... DAVID MACKAY Even though I was born in the '50s, when I started researching for this program I realized I wasn't ... JACK EVERLY When I was a kid, everywhere I went people said I should be a model, but I was more into skateboardi... DARIA WERBOWY I did a lot of acting when I was a child. I was very shy - the kind of kid who ran into a corner and... ADRIENNE SHELLY When I was growing up, I wasn't an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very a... CLINT EASTWOOD I wanted to be a minister when I first went to college. You see, I was very shy as a kid, and couldn... JOHN DAVIDSON When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous. TAYLOR JENKINS REID Hell, we never realized it would grow into this. I was just a kid that had a good work ethic, along ... DUNCAN TAYLOR I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New Yo... BILLY JOEL I think when I was a kid, and I was in England and it was all about The Stones, The Who, The Kinks a... SLASH As a kid, I'd go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I'd be in the bathroom cryin... ADAM SANDLER As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was makin... AARON KOBLIN I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum ... ZAYN MALIK I was born with an extremely negative attitude. I was the kid who wouldn't smile in Christmas ph... COLTON HAYNES I was like any other kid: very normal, I can say. I just was a simple kid that came from a humble fa... MIGUEL COTTO When he was a little kid, he was a fat, spoiled kid. I can tell the type. STAN FREBERG mostly about the trouble I got into around here when I was a kid. BOB WEST I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia. MANU BENNETT Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it’s as if we are one person, with one mi... GAYLE FORMAN When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you... COLIN QUINN He was a great kid. Very intelligent, always positive, a good smile. Hard worker. The type of kid we... DALE PATTON Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best. CONOR MCGREGOR I was born in August, no July, 1908. SATCHEL PAIGE I was born in the technology era. MALUMA I was born with an evil face. BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration. LINCOLN CHAFEE By ancestry, I was born to rule. NELSON MANDELA I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo. CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida. CHRISSY METZ
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