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Related I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I di... TREY SONGZ Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's dis... CORETTA SCOTT KING My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. ZOE WANAMAKER When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always ... LITTLE RICHARD I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head... ALICE WALKER My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone... JANE GOODALL My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being r... DAN RATHER 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 very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... DARREN ARONOFSKY My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German ... DANIEL BRUHL My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churc... MICKEY SPILLANE I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond... MAIRA KALMAN I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... WALE Males and females are unique and different, because their brains are different. There's not a li... JAMES DOBSON I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... DARREN ARONOFSKY I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti... PAUL ROBESON My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis.... STUART ROSE I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER Ridley Scott was part of the production team on 'The Good Wife.' I auditioned on my iPhone, ... MIKE COLTER My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES 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 My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to... LIBBA BRAY I'm part Spanish. My paternal grandfather came from Spain via Singapore to Manila. On my mother&... JESSICA HAGEDORN Sometimes, because of my success, I am afraid that I was not a good father. With the first two I was... ROBERTO CAVALLI My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a ... DONNA KARAN I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't eve... EDAN LEPUCKI My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the... TAJ MAHAL I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen... JEFF KINNEY I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN [But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... SARAH DESSEN My mom was a professional fitness competitor, so I go into the gym with her. I train with my dad and... BOOBOO STEWART My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She m... HENRY CAVILL I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when ... ESTELLE When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister a... ANEURIN BARNARD We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And... OMARI HARDWICK My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connec... RAM KAPOOR My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad... PETE SEEGER There's a tradition of public service in my family. I'm one of three boys that joined the mi... PHIL KLAY At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My fath... MICHAEL CAINE My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve... FRANCOIS NARS As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ... EUGENE JARECKI Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have t... BRUCE SMITH I don't really know the man my mother fell in love with. My dad was not a big part of my life for a ... JAMIE SILVERSTEIN Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I mov... DAVID JOHANSEN I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix... TREVOR NOAH My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew. CHARLES PLANCON I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The fi... ORIANA FALLACI I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. DOLORES HUERTA I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... JOSHUA BELL We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was... WOOD HARRIS I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother... RYAN GOSLING My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother w... SAM RIVERS I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe... KIKI DEE I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me. NINA ARIANDA My mother always, always, always thought that I was going to be famous. Thought that I was going to ... KEVIN SPACEY My mother worked when I was growing up, so I was under the impression I'd find it easy to be a w... ISLA FISHER My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great... DOLORES HUERTA You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... LYNN JOHNSTON My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. T. D. JAKES I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated... NATALIA VODIANOVA I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother... KAJOL I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child... LISA LUTZ The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundar... KARISMA KAPOOR My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on... CHARLES KURALT I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Repub... EDWARD BROOKE My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My ... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her... ALICE WALKER My mother was a big influence. She kept pushing me because I was very shy and inhibited. And schoolw... DON RICKLES My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO My mother has a very strong determination to succeed. She looked forward to therapy and was full of ... BERNICE KING My mother has a very strong determination to succeed, ... She looked forward to therapy and was full... BERNICE KING Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy... TAYLOR SHERIDAN My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. PAIGE BUTCHER I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, ... RIDLEY SCOTT I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. BILL GRIFFITH Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl... JENNA MORASCA The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and... CAROLINE KENNEDY I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the &... PER PETTERSON My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whethe... NATE PARKER I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at he... ELVIS PRESLEY My father and my mother separated when I was two. CARLA GUGINO I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som... MARGO JEFFERSON My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau... GARRY MARSHALL Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father h... CLIVE ANDERSON
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"If this is the work of the Overtakers, we've never seen anything l... RIDLEY PEARSON Who's Chernabog?" Grumbled Maybeck. Philby answered,"Only the most powerful villian Walt Disney... RIDLEY PEARSON It's disgraceful. I like a laugh with the lads but I can't understand why there are no lasses to sha... STUART RIDLEY How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psycholog... MATT RIDLEY Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investig... JOHN RIDLEY With writing, timing is everything. Being in the right place at the right time. JOHN RIDLEY As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abu... JOHN RIDLEY 'Family Secrets' is thought provoking, well written, and remorselessly intelligent. JANE RIDLEY Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid. JOHN RIDLEY Our honored elderly would greatly benefit from community volunteers. CHRIS RIDLEY In the Everybody-Give-Me-A-Hug victim culture in which we live, the obese want a spot at the table a... JOHN RIDLEY When I go to business meetings, I'm still told way too often by some receptionist, 'The mail... JOHN RIDLEY The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on hete... JOHN RIDLEY Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to lov... JOHN RIDLEY She would've made an excellent pirate. ERICA RIDLEY Moonseed Manor did not look like a place to live. Moonseed Manor looked like a place to die. ERICA RIDLEY From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off ... JOHN RIDLEY Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be ... JOHN RIDLEY It's funny: over time, if you're fortunate, you build a nice career, and you have these inte... JOHN RIDLEY As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use o... RIDLEY PEARSON Slavery was not a bad day on the job. It was not your boss yelling at you. It was not hard work for ... JOHN RIDLEY Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be fou... JOHN RIDLEY With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Poli... JOHN RIDLEY I like animals. I like people who like animals. I hate people who love animals to the point they los... JOHN RIDLEY To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear chi... JANE RIDLEY did a great job under challenging conditions. FRED RIDLEY