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SHEENA EASTON![]()
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PETE SEEGER This week was the first anniversary of the death of my father and I had long promised my mother we w...
JUERGEN KLINSMANN![]()
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ...
ROBERTO BENIGNI My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many w...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d...
JAMES MAXEY![]()
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m...
DONALD TRUMP![]()
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef...
ROBERTO BENIGNI![]()
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career...
RANBIR KAPOOR![]()
My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t...
TIG NOTARO My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whethe...
NATE PARKER This has been a very tough decision for me to make, especially considering the magnitude of the upco...
JENNIFER KIRK![]()
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm n...
UMA THURMAN I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated...
NATALIA VODIANOVA My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my...
EDDIE MATHEWS Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for sever...
JOHN PEREZ I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t...
MAHESH BABU![]()
My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
J. R. MARTINEZ![]()
My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the begin...
OLIVER SIM When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN![]()
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakrabo...
SHRADDHA KAPOOR I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES![]()
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL![]()
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou...
KERRI WALSH JENNINGS My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
HERMIONE GINGOLD My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio...
GEORGE MULLER Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM![]()
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I...
KATHA POLLITT![]()
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare...
JON KABAT-ZINN My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT![]()
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amoun...
BROOKE SHIELDS I am very, very disappointed because Paris was my main aim for the year. I have had my preparations ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH![]()
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i...
LYNN JOHNSTON I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali...
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN![]()
I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebel...
HOLLY COMBS![]()
I've never looked back in my life. I don't want to see that stuff. I had blanked out a lot of stuff ...
QUINCY JONES![]()
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr...
MIKE NICHOLS My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me ...
AMOS LEE![]()
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every...
JACK BLACK My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
ZOE WANAMAKER I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless c...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &...
PER PETTERSON The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG![]()
I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family.
ALEXIS STEWART She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left...
ANITA GATTIS 'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother...
AIMEE CARTER My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especia...
DEVAL PATRICK![]()
In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain...
VIRAT KOHLI![]()
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH![]()
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa...
JUNE CARTER CASH My uncle Lionel ended up being a bug guy at 20th Century Fox, which my father had been - and, of cou...
THOMAS NEWMAN My mother was a very prominent lady in New Orleans. Everybody knew my mother. If she dies here, nobo...
ANNE WARD Although I still love skating very much, my passion and love for the competitive aspect of the sport...
JENNIFER KIRK![]()
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandm...
JACOB ROTHSCHILD![]()
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ...
T. BOONE PICKENS I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her wh...
BILLY PORTER![]()
When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I ...
DAVID CASSIDY My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f...
VALORIE CURRY![]()
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ...
JOAN RIVERS I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.
DAVID KEITH I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Los...
SANJAY DUTT![]()
I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro...
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my...
MAYSOON ZAYID![]()
I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemete...
SIMON WIESENTHAL I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL![]()
My dad is a very strong figure in my life and certainly in death he's become even more meaningful. S...
RICK SPRINGFIELD My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond...
MAIRA KALMAN![]()
I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father
GREG NORMAN I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h...
JAMES ROUSE![]()
I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need ...
MADONNA CICCONE My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB![]()
Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studie...
CHRISTY TURLINGTON My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother...
STEVE TISCH I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ...
ANEURIN BARNARD![]()
My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.
CHELSEA CLINTON![]()
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head...
ALICE WALKER My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both ...
H. ROBERT HORVITZ![]()
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a...
OLIVIA HUSSEY![]()
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni...
WALE![]()
[Marley has an easy confidence and claims his] childhood made me strong ... I know my father - throu...
BOB MARLEY![]()
I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a m...
FRANCIS CAPRA I feared for my life; it was a life-or-death situation. In some ways, I've never really gotten it ou...
WINSTON CAVIN![]()
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.
GREG NORMAN Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ...
LEONARD ROSE![]()
My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.
DREW BARRYMORE![]()
Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a ...
ALANA STEWART My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor an...
LARRY FITZGERALD I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY![]()
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother S...
SHAWN AMOS I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and...
JOSHUA FERRIS People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my m...
SAMMI HANRATTY I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently...
IMELDA STAUNTON
SHEENA EASTON
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad... PETE SEEGER This week was the first anniversary of the death of my father and I had long promised my mother we w...
JUERGEN KLINSMANN
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many w...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d...
JAMES MAXEY
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career... RANBIR KAPOOR
My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t... TIG NOTARO My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whethe...
NATE PARKER This has been a very tough decision for me to make, especially considering the magnitude of the upco...
JENNIFER KIRK
I'm very happy at home. I love to just hang out with my daughter, I love to work in my garden. I'm n... UMA THURMAN I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated...
NATALIA VODIANOVA My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my...
EDDIE MATHEWS Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for sever...
JOHN PEREZ I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would t...
MAHESH BABU
My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock. J. R. MARTINEZ
My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the begin... OLIVER SIM When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakrabo... SHRADDHA KAPOOR I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa... VICTOR MITCHELL
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou... KERRI WALSH JENNINGS My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands.
HERMIONE GINGOLD My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio...
GEORGE MULLER Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM
My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I... KATHA POLLITT
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare... JON KABAT-ZINN My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amoun... BROOKE SHIELDS I am very, very disappointed because Paris was my main aim for the year. I have had my preparations ...
PAULA RADCLIFFE I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... LYNN JOHNSTON I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali...
NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN
I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebel... HOLLY COMBS
I've never looked back in my life. I don't want to see that stuff. I had blanked out a lot of stuff ... QUINCY JONES
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me ...
AMOS LEE
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... JACK BLACK My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
ZOE WANAMAKER I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen...
JEFF KINNEY When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless c...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &...
PER PETTERSON The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family. ALEXIS STEWART She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left...
ANITA GATTIS 'Harry Potter' changed my life in more ways than one, and it helped me get through my mother...
AIMEE CARTER My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especia...
DEVAL PATRICK
In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain... VIRAT KOHLI
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH My uncle Lionel ended up being a bug guy at 20th Century Fox, which my father had been - and, of cou...
THOMAS NEWMAN My mother was a very prominent lady in New Orleans. Everybody knew my mother. If she dies here, nobo...
ANNE WARD Although I still love skating very much, my passion and love for the competitive aspect of the sport...
JENNIFER KIRK
My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandm... JACOB ROTHSCHILD
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ... T. BOONE PICKENS I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her wh...
BILLY PORTER
When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I ... DAVID CASSIDY My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the f...
VALORIE CURRY
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents.
DAVID KEITH I know I was very unstable and unhappy all through my life. I lost my mother and then my father. Los...
SANJAY DUTT
I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my...
MAYSOON ZAYID
I have lost my mother, my father, my five, and ninety relatives in Poland. Poland is for me a cemete... SIMON WIESENTHAL I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL
My dad is a very strong figure in my life and certainly in death he's become even more meaningful. S... RICK SPRINGFIELD My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond...
MAIRA KALMAN
I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father GREG NORMAN I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h...
JAMES ROUSE
I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need ... MADONNA CICCONE My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB
Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studie... CHRISTY TURLINGTON My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother...
STEVE TISCH I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ...
ANEURIN BARNARD
My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better. CHELSEA CLINTON
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head... ALICE WALKER My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both ...
H. ROBERT HORVITZ
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... WALE
[Marley has an easy confidence and claims his] childhood made me strong ... I know my father - throu... BOB MARLEY
I think that even though my father wasn't there, in his death and in his memory, he has been a m... FRANCIS CAPRA I feared for my life; it was a life-or-death situation. In some ways, I've never really gotten it ou...
WINSTON CAVIN
I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. GREG NORMAN Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ...
LEONARD ROSE
My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled. DREW BARRYMORE
Men come and go - God knows they certainly have in my life - but girlfriends are for ever. I have a ... ALANA STEWART My mother was a great inspiration to me to always do my best. My father has always been my mentor an...
LARRY FITZGERALD I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother S... SHAWN AMOS I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and...
JOSHUA FERRIS People get so trapped by their technology now. Real life is so much better. I love talking with my m...
SAMMI HANRATTY I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently...
IMELDA STAUNTON
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