I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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Related If it's old school friends that my parents know, then I can stay out till late. But if they don&... TENA DESAE My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to... CHARLIE WORSHAM I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow... PAT CONROY There was a time in my life that my mother told me that they didn't know whether they were going... ELLEN GREENE I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's ... NAOMI CAMPBELL My fans mean everything to me - especially the sisters! When you're on 'The View' or you... SHERRI SHEPHERD There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and th... TABATHA COFFEY My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started l... DOUG HARVEY I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to gradu... SHANNON LUCID I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS I love it when a woman hugs me. I love it when they say that I make them laugh because that means I&... SHERRI SHEPHERD I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's ca... KAY GRANGER I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k... LEMON ANDERSEN Maybe sometimes, when I see some kids, you know, with their families. It's making me cry. You kn... CHARICE PEMPENGCO My mom wasn't so much such a great cook. But I don't know, I think I have a very strong moth... APRIL BLOOMFIELD I think I have it all. But I won't say that the credit for all that goes to me. I think the cred... CHANDA KOCHHAR My brothers used to call me Bob. They'd laugh at me, and I didn't get it. I'm 13 years o... MICHAEL STRAHAN That's when we was makin this video stuff. They went all over the place makin it. And they was w... HASIL ADKINS I didn't know what was going to happen with 'Teen Wolf.' I was only scheduled to do four... ADELAIDE KANE I think I've done two shoots in my underwear ever. They both happened to be for Calvin Klein. Bu... JAMIE DORNAN I had to have my first kiss in front of, like, a hundred people. I didn't know what to do. So my... LACEY CHABERT I love meeting people, and I know it's so difficult for people to come up to me and introduce th... NICOLA FORMICHETTI On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away... JOHN RATZENBERGER I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sister... KATE UPTON My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school... MARTIN GARRIX When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They ... HANS MATHESON If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what the... ADAM GRANT I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, ... JIMMY DEAN When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' ... BLAKE SHELTON What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, ... CARA DELEVINGNE I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to co... GEOFFREY CANADA I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my firs... WOODY HARRELSON I lead by example. My kids know what sweat is. They've seen me come home from so many runs and a... SUMMER SANDERS It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just ... ZAYN MALIK I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it's always going to be a ... KATY PERRY I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't... MISSY ELLIOTT My mother wouldn't allow me to speak slang when I was growing up. But when I got outside, around... QUEEN LATIFAH When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents... DAVID HENRIE It had never occurred to me that my colour - or lack of it - was an issue for some people, but then ... SHARI SEBBENS I think when you're a fan of music - at least the way I've been a fan to artists that have r... MATISYAHU It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always use... TERRY O'QUINN They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so... CHARLOTTE RAE Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So wh... ANDY WARHOL I used to always sing my way into the movies and the basketball games or whatever. I'd sing for ... AARON NEVILLE You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from ... GIL SCOTT-HERON When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts,... AL ROKER The best part of it is, I've worked with all of them before. They know me and they know my coaching ... JANICE GILLESPIE You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to... RICH MOORE I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondl... JONI MITCHELL Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. A... MAISIE WILLIAMS Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you kn... ICE T Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let th... FRANK ROBINSON When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think o... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG I didn't have accessories when I started my career. Did you see me wearing bling-bling when I di... WIZKID Everybody I meet who uses 'WhatsApp', I ask them a question: 'How did you hear about it?... JAN KOUM If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and yo... DAVID ATTENBOROUGH My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark... J. R. SMITH I have no tattoos at all - it was a huge undertaking for me in the '80s to let my parents know I... JIMMY SMITS When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly tel... AARON SCHOCK If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you... RANDY NEWMAN My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was appl... XAVIER BECERRA Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having... ALEX KAPRANOS Everyone talks about new love all the time, but there's so much to draw from when you've bee... DIERKS BENTLEY The tough thing about radio is I've met a lot of people in it who like my music. But it's ha... CHRIS ISAAK I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's ju... WARIS DIRIE My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothe... JERRY HALL They keep telling me that my flow's up to date, you know. I guess they thought I was gonna come ... CHERYL JAMES When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to an... RALPH BROWN I guess it's because I do have a younger audience that, you know, parents worry about the role m... BRITNEY SPEARS I don't buy these rag magazines that feed off of stolen, you know, press. They're basically ... ASHTON KUTCHER My parents have Google Alerts on me. So they'll often times send me an e-mail and be like, '... DANE DEHAAN My life is at least as intricate as my readers' lives. People say that 'The Artist's Way... JULIA CAMERON I knew Henry Fonda was my father, but I didn't know who I was. They all thought of me as Henry F... PETER FONDA I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I co... CHUCK BROWN My father's name is Dee, so when I was born they named me Katherine Dee and they took the K from... KADEE STRICKLAND Before this DJ thing, I was hopelessly taking things apart to try to figure out how they worked. I... GRANDMASTER FLASH Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or what... PAUL WALKER I think that I was raised by two of the best people ever. My mother and father are just the definiti... JOSIE LOREN It always weirds me out and makes me unhappy that some people think I'm Justin. I'm not. Peo... RANDY HARRISON Before I had a double mastectomy, I was already pretty flat-chested, and I made so many jokes over t... TIG NOTARO My point is this — you don't know. When I was first here, people looked at my hair, noticed apples... REBECCA MCKINSEY Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to str... ERIC CLAPTON I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You k... DICK VAN PATTEN Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known th... J. G. BALLARD Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with P... ALICE EVE When people say hello to me, I feel like maybe I know them from somewhere, because they say, like, &... DAKOTA FANNING All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty... WILLIE NELSON This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'Go... GARY SHEFFIELD I know my lyrics might be weird to some, but they're not like that to me because I know where th... ALEX TURNER I'm just one woman away, my mother, from being the same as Mike Tyson. I would've ended up l... EVANDER HOLYFIELD My skin's not a normal sight. When a photographer says, 'I don't know what it is, but th... WINNIE HARLOW I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think muc... JACKIE EVANCHO My grandparents actually, whenever they got the chance, took me to Broadway, but that started when I... SHANICE WILLIAMS For me, I'm a filmmaker because, above all, I'm an explorer. It's my way of exploring an... JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my li... ABRAHAM LINCOLN 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happ... KASKADE I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced again... SEBASTIAN COE Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; th... NAOMIE HARRIS I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm do... HAROLD SIMMONS
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KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it. KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s... KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do... KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop... KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra... KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s... KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth... KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud. KAREN BENDER What is it to be normal, at 12, at 78? What is it like when you can't grow up? KAREN BENDER My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but excit... KAREN BENDER It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you. KAREN BENDER I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' T... KAREN BENDER I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill. KAREN BENDER Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all ... KAREN BENDER Giving shape to a painful experience is powerful because it helps us to see, first, how we got throu... KAREN BENDER Tell your mother that any clothes she wants to purchase you as a gift has to be suitable for a job i... KAREN BENDER Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the mi... KAREN BENDER The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund&... KAREN BENDER Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating. KAREN BENDER Don't monitor your online savings account in real time. KAREN BENDER Make pumpkin bread as the default gift for everyone. It is cheap, it is beloved, it is carbs. KAREN BENDER I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office. KAREN BASS My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w... KAREN BASS I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive. KAREN BASS You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected officia... KAREN BASS When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them. KAREN BASS It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern. KAREN BASS All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of ... KAREN ARMSTRONG I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I... KAREN ARMSTRONG Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creeda... KAREN ARMSTRONG We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we ... KAREN ARMSTRONG