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DEBBIE MILES Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt a...
MEGHAN TRAINOR While I was never really into pageants, my teacher convinced me to try out and my pageant career sta...
DEVON WILLIAMS
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and m... GERALDINE BROOKS
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I am the proud daughter of Indian immigrants who reminded my brothers, my sister and me every single... NIKKI HALEY My dad was an artist in his own right and had a studio in our basement when I was a kid. My twin sis...
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I thought about him going into my mom's room when she as little and holding up her report card and s... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
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ART MCMASTER
This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would ... HAMISH BOWLES Watching Chuck Berry walk out on that stage for the first time and looking out at all the people was...
JOE EDWARDS
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AMANDA FLEISCHMAN
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GARY BEADLES I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they pla...
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LUZ URDANETA
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LARS MIKALAUSKAS I believed enough in this project that I thought it would turn into something pretty big, so I sold ...
CHARLES GREEN When we were kids, I remember we'd use lemon in our hair and go into the sun, hoping it would ma...
ANA IVANOVIC As a kid, I thought movies were boring. My parents would hire VHS recorders for the weekend and watc...
ASIF KAPADIA When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There wer...
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home a...
CATHERINE HICKS I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. W...
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ART MCMASTER
I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, an... YOKO ONO I was raised in Austin, Texas, around trial lawyers. My friend and I - we were 14 - would go and wat...
JULIE WHITE We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three.
TIM ROTH
We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediat... MICHAEL FRANTI I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightc...
LAINIE KAZAN Music was massive from an early age. My parents were huge music fans, especially soul, and they play...
BRONAGH GALLAGHER We were kind of enamored with the situation. Our eyes were wide open and I was hoping it would only ...
GEORGE WARD We did not undertake this decision lightly. In view of the financial considerations facing MAO (Miss...
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Sometimes, struggles are exactly what we need in our life. If we were to go through our life without... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
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FERNANDO REALYVASQUEZ
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As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven... ALICE SEBOLD Growing up, my whole family played basketball, and we would have our battles in the backyard. There ...
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My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, t... AMY PURDY
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BILLY WILLIAMS We did pretty good except for the first quarter. We were just a little bit impatient with our offens...
DANNY LABASAN We came in a little cocky after last week's game. We were a little shaky in the first half, but in t...
CASEY SCHLOCK
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the chur... ROBERT H. SCHULLER If and when we qualify, we would go into the World Cup as one of the teams that can win it.
BRIAN BARWICK We argue like any other brother and sister would. But it's different with us. A lot of friends would...
SAM ADAME For my family, that was a shameful thing. My mom and sister lived very afraid, and to them, being a ...
OSCAR TORRES It is just like the Miss America pageant except everybody's talent is twirling.
MARLENE TORRES Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had jus...
JOE COCKER My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she ...
CHRISTINA RICCI When I'm throwing hard and have all my stuff, you can afford to miss a little bit more. But I needed...
JOE SAVERY When my sister came here, I knew her. I finally had a sister, and now she's gone. I miss that.
LUHANNA CHESLEY
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My you... SUZI QUATRO My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.
MICKY DOLENZ When we played them last year, they were real physical on the inside. I told our girls we would have...
KURT GREENE
I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourse... JULIET LANDAU My sister Mathilde is an actress, but more like a French Jennifer Aniston. She's famous just in ...
EMMANUELLE SEIGNER
I was the one who taught my sister and my niece how to walk in high heels. JOHN BARROWMAN
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Cooking and baking is both physical and mental therapy. 
The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even ... 
Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather. 
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in... 
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. 
Having children is the greatest thing that can happen to you as a husband and wife. They are infuria... 
I usually wear only a bit of pink lippy, but for TV, they add a few extra lashes to brighten my eyes... 
I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's li... 
The most prepared are the most dedicated. 
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo... 
A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. 
The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. 
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It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew... 