Salman Rushdie
Related I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense ... IAN DUNBAR I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m... TRINI LOPEZ NORMAN LEAR ZOSIA MAMET I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather... RACHEL BLOOM ERIC ROTH I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my... MAYSOON ZAYID My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever... CAROL ALT My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter... SHIRIN NESHAT My grandfather was one of the most amazing Baptist ministers in history, he was unbelievable. He was... JOSH HENDERSON HEDY LAMARR ZENDAYA SIDNEY POITIER My grandfather made films on God, I make it on the devil, so, I wonder what he would say if he was a... VIKRAM ROHIT SHETTY My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da... TONY HALE SUGAR RAY LEONARD JO NESBO FERRAN ADRIA I have to say that Common is one of the kindest, most humble, grateful individuals that I've eve... RYAN ROBBINS MERRY CLAYTON Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother w... SAM RIVERS My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But... CLAIRE DENIS My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were Fren... ALEXIS DENISOF My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She ... LAURENCE YEP DONALD TRUMP BEYONCE KNOWLES MATT SMITH My parents met in the theatre, and I thought that was so romantic. My dad was a scenic designer and ... SKYE MCCOLE BARTUSIAK GENE SIMMONS I met Malcolm the month before he was killed. He deeply changed my mind about America. AMIRI BARAKA My dad's an artist, and my grandfather paints - he's not a painter; my grandfather's a b... BRETT DALTON My boyfriend, who I love to death - he's only 17 so he's the youngest guy I've ever date... NIKKI REED TONY BENNETT Salman will always be that special person in my life because he was able to change my career. I will... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up.... NICOLAS ROEG Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it... DOUG DAVIDSON My father was a painter and he taught art. He once said to me, 'I never knew an Indian child who... N. SCOTT MOMADAY My mother and my great-aunt told me stories, like how when my grandfather first met my grandmother a... LEON BRIDGES PETE SEEGER My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in '... CELIA IMRIE HELEN MIRREN LYNN JOHNSTON FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. HUGH JACKMAN WARREN BEATTY OLIVIA HUSSEY But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ... PATRICIA RICHARDSON KIM CATTRALL When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY LYNN JOHNSTON CHRISTY TURLINGTON RUDY GIULIANI When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s... ELENA DELLE DONNE My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ... CATHERINE TATE I don't have a traditional design background, but it's inherent to me. My father was in the ... STACEY BENDET My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU ... BLAKE BAILEY STEVE CARELL My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I w... VIKRAM CHATWAL I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He's been my friend since he was in The Faces, and h... BOBBY WOMACK ROSE MCGOWAN HUEY NEWTON CAMILLE PAGLIA We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was Fren... JOANNE HARRIS My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple f... GEORGE J. MITCHELL I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES ALLY CONDIE LAILA ALI RODNEY DANGERFIELD CHRISTOPHER GUEST FRANCESCA ANNIS My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a... HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI NATASHA TRETHEWEY DON RICKLES AL PACINO JUNE CARTER CASH JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN I worked with Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Tupac! But Tupac was the sweetest man in the world. That whole th... LORI PETTY I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he... RETTA PALOMA PICASSO SEAMUS HEANEY DAVID ZUCKER IDINA MENZEL The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton. CHARLIE ROSE I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the co... PATRICK CARNEY WAYNE DYER DALAI LAMA SALMAN RUSHDIE ANTHONY QUINN I was surprised that he was such a sweet guy. I thought he was going to be strange. But he could be ... MARIA BELLO ERIC MCCORMACK My stepfather met my mother when I was seven years old, and he was a guitar player. So he caught me ... GEORGE BENSON JOE GIBBS My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churc... MICKEY SPILLANE EMILIA FOX MIRIAM MARGOLYES I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen... JEFF KINNEY CHARLIE PUTH
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