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TAMMIN SURSOK
My dad has always been a big Ray Charles fan, and I've grown up listening to all kinds of music. AVICII My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and ...
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I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-dist... DAVID HAREWOOD
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I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to. ACTION BRONSON My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to ...
ELLIOTT YAMIN
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NORMAN LLOYD
I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five o... JEFFREY R. IMMELT
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ERIC CLOSE
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon - his name's Norman Waterhouse, but we ... SUKI WATERHOUSE
I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER It's no secret that I'm my dad's biggest fan.
ED STOPPARD Ice Cube's the coolest dad. A lot of parents - a lot of kids do not think their parents are cool...
O'SHEA JACKSON, JR. It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day lo...
IDRIS ELBA I was a big fan of Aaliyah's. Growing up, my mom was a big fan of her music. When I grew to have...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP
My musical influence is really from my father. He was a DJ in college. My parents met at New York Un... TALIB KWELI People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I'v...
JANELLE MONAE My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was ...
GARETH BALE My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ...
KRISTIN HAWKINS I grew up in Malibu, so it's nice to be back home and be with my parents and sit and drive my ca...
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STUART GIBBS My parents, my family, that's the biggest inspiration in my life. I've been in a lot of dark...
J. R. SMITH
You've got to know how to hustle. I got a lot of inspiration from my parents. My father was defi... JAY PHAROAH I've got to say, my parents have always been very supportive. I used to sit in my bedroom and re...
EDDIE TRUNK I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, '...
COLIN ANGLE I didn't finish college; my parents didn't graduate college - we didn't have a pot to pi...
BARBARA KRUGER I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but...
J. R. SMITH
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me ... ADRIEN BRODY
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RYAN LOCHTE There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
TAYLOR WILSON I like country music. I'm not going to lie. I'm from the South, and I grew up on it. My dad ...
KIM DICKENS
I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you ... DARIA WERBOWY My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they w...
JANE KRAKOWSKI I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've ...
NEYMAR My dad is a huge folk music fan, so growing up, there were always records playing in my house. Carol...
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FRED ARMISEN
I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very ... CARINE ROITFELD When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.
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XAVIER BECERRA
My dad does tons of voiceovers; he was Duke in 'G.I. Joe' and 'Transformers' and Han... ASHLEY BELL
I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are close... GAIL CARSON LEVINE My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
ELVIS STOJKO
My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an i... HARRY CONNICK, JR.
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and ... JESSE MCCARTNEY I would say I'm black because my parents said I'm black. I'm black because my mother'...
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My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' ... KENDALL JENNER I grew up on the South Island of New Zealand, in a city chosen and beloved by my parents for its pro...
ELEANOR CATTON My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my da...
ARI MILLEN
My parents- they've been my biggest influences and supporters since day one. They teach me every... SHAWN JOHNSON My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsi...
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My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a... WINONA RYDER
I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi... HUNTER HAYES
My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for m... DAN FEUERRIEGEL I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like m...
RYAN PHILLIPPE Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music loude...
DAN AUERBACH I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-sto...
FLEUR EAST I grew up in an international school community my whole life, and my national identity is very confu...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD
I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the res... JACK MCBRAYER
My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful... ROBBIE COLTRANE My parents wanted to name me Karim Hill. My aunt always liked the name Dule, from this actor Keir Du...
DULE HILL My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always...
DAN REYNOLDS I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people h...
B. D. WONG
The biggest thing for me is the passion that I've always had for hockey. I remember growing up, ... SIDNEY CROSBY I grew up with my parents in the kitchen discussing the audition my dad had that day or moaning abou...
BEL POWLEY I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be...
INARA GEORGE One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attentio...
ALEX KINGSTON
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely t... KONRAD LORENZ
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m... DAN STEVENS I was always inundated with music, whether it be my mother's favorites like Fleetwood Mac and Ca...
ANDRA DAY
I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of ... NICK JONAS My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
ADAM LAMBERT My dad does watch my work now. My parents watch everything I'm on. I think the first time they s...
KENNETH CHOI I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston....
DULE HILL
That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my fat... VANESSA HUDGENS I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to...
CODY LINLEY I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and h...
BOBBY WOMACK
I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have ... MINDY KALING
I really grew my own fan base. I started posting videos on YouTube with the help of my parents. TORI KELLY I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's th...
COCO LEE
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... MAYER HAWTHORNE I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - ...
JILL SOLOWAY
My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I... DANIEL RADCLIFFE My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old...
ZAC BROWN I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actua...
JASON REITMAN
But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man... ZOSIA MAMET My first real acting gig was probably playing Mamillius in my mother's 'Winter's Tale.&#...
LOGAN MARSHALL-GREEN I used to think I grew up to be a man because I never really had a dad, and my mother was always at ...
(I.V.) EDWARD ANDREW MOLNAR IV I love all kinds of music. My dad's from London, so he loves David Bowie, the Stones, The Clash....
ADAM HICKS I guess if they ever do a remake of 'Sophie's Choice,' I could play the Meryl Streep par...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED My parents were big music fans, and my dad plays music, so I grew up with Madonna, Frank Zappa, the ...
MADI DIAZ
I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I gr... LANCE BASS My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post of...
LLOYD BLANKFEIN My parents were so far from the music world that they couldn't conceive how you could make a liv...
PIERRE BOULEZ I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe... 
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. 
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Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. 
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifeti... 
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Please, we can get along here. 
Go at it boldly, and you'll find unexpected forces closing round you and coming to your aid. 
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My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop; she did the outfits for the video for P.M. ... 