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EMMA CLINE Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
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I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was...
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The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
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ELLEN WONG I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS But I was determined not to make it bigger and broader for Broadway, and Stephen was just as adamant...
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My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to p...
JACK KILBY I realized I had this incredibly rich legacy of Broadway and Hollywood memorabilia and I had to do s...
LUKE YANKEE I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw th...
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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CHRIS WOOD I honestly don't know. I think it hit my arm or something, maybe. I shielded my face because it was ...
BRIAN WOOLGER Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother w...
SAM RIVERS If I heard or saw something blow up, I was hoping it was my dog and not one of the soldiers.
HOLLIS CRAWFORD My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
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NICHOLAS SPARKS I was able to go into the building in the '80s when it was all closed and boarded up. I thought it w...
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NATALIE DU TOIT Yes. Yes. And yes. They wanted to keep the show on the road just as it was on Broadway.
DAVID HANSEN It was something I had to battle through. It was frustrating. There were a lot of different emotions...
ROBBIE EARL It has taken me almost 60 years finally to compose something I wanted to write when I was a young so...
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Today I saw something through a store window that was truly stunning, beautiful and sexy. I wanted ...
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My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w...
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My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca...
JHUMPA LAHIRI![]()
I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going t...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
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... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa...
AFROJACK I was a musician and did moderately well at that. I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, bu...
MIGUEL FERRER When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr...
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As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as ...
ERIC BURDON I wanted to go out of state and do something new. I wanted to see where I was as a person and see wh...
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Classes were always a bore to me. I wanted to learn things on my own, not by presentations.I was a l...
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Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise...
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My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ...
JOE GIBBS Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.
CHARLIE KORSMO I felt it was my job as his mother, ... I brought him into the world with this set of circumstances ...
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My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and...
ALVEDA KING It sounded like something I wanted to try. I called up the (national) biathlon coach and asked if he...
SARAH KONRAD I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON It was really something that grabbed me that I wanted to do . . . medicine.
GRAEME CLARK I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ...
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I was born and raised in Louisiana, but going to Tennessee gave me a chance to do something differen...
JASON MITCHELL I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys...
ALICE ENGLERT A seventh title is something special. But it was tough, definitely not as I wanted&it was a lot hard...
MARIA MUTOLA I doubled in the mile and two-mile as a farewell. It was my last time running here, so I wanted to r...
JEFF PERRELLA I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It ...
BROOKE ADAMS Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, I saw something - I don't know what it was to this day. My mi...
VING RHAMES I am super happy with my 400 hurdles. It was an amazing race. It was almost a second PR. My training...
DAVID KLECH 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ...
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From very early on, I had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was my passion; it was my goal...
MIKE BINDER It was something I wanted to do right away. I was so thrilled to be on the team. I knew I had a good...
ANDREW KUECHLER I'll never forget that first race. I was nervous and really shaking. Racing is something I always wa...
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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make...
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I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r...
JODI BENSON I realized that as I was getting older, I had to prioritize what I really wanted to do in the world ...
MARVIN HAMLISCH All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought it s...
MAX ANGELELLI I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out o...
BRIAN MCKNIGHT
Whatever it was I wanted from my m...
ALISON BECHDEL This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS
Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was i... LIZA MINNELLI
While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer. A. R. RAHMAN It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...
EUDORA WELTY My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I woul...
TED LIGETY
What I wanted in life always was to write something as good as 'Pinocchio.' I wanted to writ... PATTI SMITH I never saw myself as a spokesman for a generation. It was all a bit heavy for me. I saw myself as a...
PAUL WELLER
That was the strange thing - I didn't hate my father. He had wanted something. Like I wanted Suzanne... EMMA CLINE Why did you marry Dad, Mom?"
My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <...
MARGARET MCMULLAN My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be read...
BRIAN LAMB
My first thought in life was wanting to be an actor. I was in ballet slippers and on pointe as soon ... LORETTA SWIT My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of...
GRANT GUSTIN
I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was... SANDRA CISNEROS
My manager, Norma, was trying to get me to write it for at least 10 years and being the reclusive pe... SPIKE MILLIGAN I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then...
RAHA MOHARRAK My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that mad...
SKYLAR ASTIN
The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both...
SAM RIVERS That was my first major championships back in 2002 and I didn't get to perform as well as I wanted t...
ASAFA POWELL
Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD
I was with my mum in the shops, a ladies boutique or something, and I was asked what I wanted to be ... LEO VARADKAR
Of course, because I was at the beginning of my career. For me, as a musician, to have a chance for ... MILES DAVIS I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but...
LUPITA NYONG'O
'Carrie Diaries' was one of the scripts that was sent my way, and it was instantly something... ELLEN WONG I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It ...
DAN HAWKINS But I was determined not to make it bigger and broader for Broadway, and Stephen was just as adamant...
JOHN DOYLE
My own interest developed because I thought it was a fascinating subject and something I wanted to p... JACK KILBY I realized I had this incredibly rich legacy of Broadway and Hollywood memorabilia and I had to do s...
LUKE YANKEE I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw th...
VING RHAMES I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my moth...
CAROLINE LEAVITT
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. YAYOI KUSAMA My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 ma...
DAVID POGUE In '92, I got my first Broadway show as a performer - 'Crazy for You.' I was in the ense...
CASEY NICHOLAW
I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public ser... SONIA SOTOMAYOR I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like ...
NOEL CLARKE He didn't treat me as an ex-player. He allowed my opinion to mean something and he gave me a lot of ...
MATT PAINTER From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor...
CHRIS WOOD I honestly don't know. I think it hit my arm or something, maybe. I shielded my face because it was ...
BRIAN WOOLGER Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother w...
SAM RIVERS If I heard or saw something blow up, I was hoping it was my dog and not one of the soldiers.
HOLLIS CRAWFORD My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
ARTHUR ROCK At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the ci...
FINN JONES
My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to ... MARTINA NAVRATILOVA My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsi...
RON CARLSON
I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kiss... NICHOLAS SPARKS I was able to go into the building in the '80s when it was all closed and boarded up. I thought it w...
ANNIE BUNKER When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my...
MACKENZIE ASTIN
My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew. TARYN MANNING
My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ... CHARLIE ROWE Back in my mind, I never, ever wanted to give up swimming; it was something that I would carry on wi...
NATALIE DU TOIT Yes. Yes. And yes. They wanted to keep the show on the road just as it was on Broadway.
DAVID HANSEN It was something I had to battle through. It was frustrating. There were a lot of different emotions...
ROBBIE EARL It has taken me almost 60 years finally to compose something I wanted to write when I was a young so...
DAVE BRUBECK
Today I saw something through a store window that was truly stunning, beautiful and sexy. I wanted ... ANONYMOUS
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... B. B. KING It's become an embarrassment of a sort. [Having elections] was not something the UAE wanted to be be...
ABDULKHALEQ ABDULLA
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca... JHUMPA LAHIRI
I see myself doing Harry Potter films as long as I'm enjoying it and as long as they are going t... DANIEL RADCLIFFE I was raised in a Christian home and, in fact, my mother led me to Christ as a youngster.
JERRY B. JENKINS
My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the... LAURA MVULA When I was pregnant, a few of my friends told me that their babies slept in bed with them. I remembe...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN
... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t... DEYTH BANGER I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I wa...
AFROJACK I was a musician and did moderately well at that. I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, bu...
MIGUEL FERRER When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories thr...
NINA ARIANDA Fletcher caught me and said something and there was no need for it. Sometimes when you go to that pl...
FRANK LAMPARD Using assistive technology with your child prevents your child from missing out on content solely be...
SANDRA K. COOK
As far as the Animals breaking up - it was my fault. I wanted out. We took it to the max, as far as ... ERIC BURDON I wanted to go out of state and do something new. I wanted to see where I was as a person and see wh...
CHAD JACKSON
Classes were always a bore to me. I wanted to learn things on my own, not by presentations.I was a l... NICOLAS CAGE
Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise... RICHELLE MEAD
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... JOE GIBBS Acting was never something I wanted to do for the rest of my life, so it was easy to walk away.
CHARLIE KORSMO I felt it was my job as his mother, ... I brought him into the world with this set of circumstances ...
WENDY KRAMER
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and... ALVEDA KING It sounded like something I wanted to try. I called up the (national) biathlon coach and asked if he...
SARAH KONRAD I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON It was really something that grabbed me that I wanted to do . . . medicine.
GRAEME CLARK I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ...
BARRY ZITO
I was born and raised in Louisiana, but going to Tennessee gave me a chance to do something differen... JASON MITCHELL I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean mys...
ALICE ENGLERT A seventh title is something special. But it was tough, definitely not as I wanted&it was a lot hard...
MARIA MUTOLA I doubled in the mile and two-mile as a farewell. It was my last time running here, so I wanted to r...
JEFF PERRELLA I had wanted to be a movie star and had thought I would be a movie star since I was very little. It ...
BROOKE ADAMS Snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, I saw something - I don't know what it was to this day. My mi...
VING RHAMES I am super happy with my 400 hurdles. It was an amazing race. It was almost a second PR. My training...
DAVID KLECH 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ... GLORIA VANDERBILT
From very early on, I had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was my passion; it was my goal... MIKE BINDER It was something I wanted to do right away. I was so thrilled to be on the team. I knew I had a good...
ANDREW KUECHLER I'll never forget that first race. I was nervous and really shaking. Racing is something I always wa...
JUSTIN ROSENBOHM
I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my fathe... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make...
JACOB BATALON
I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-r... JODI BENSON I realized that as I was getting older, I had to prioritize what I really wanted to do in the world ...
MARVIN HAMLISCH All I saw was this black thing, and I couldn't understand what it was. When I hit it, I thought it s...
MAX ANGELELLI I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out o...
BRIAN MCKNIGHT
