Fred Armisen
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I left to go to New York... LYNN COLLINS I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in S... TAIYE SELASI My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO ELIZA DUSHKU The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at ... MICHAEL RAPAPORT MICKEY ROONEY PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FRANK OCEAN HELMUT SCHMIDT I'm a father myself for the first time in my life, and I had very very loving parents. DAVID KEITH DWYANE WADE My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially m... BILL O'REILLY My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially m... BILL O'REILLY I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came righ... GENE HACKMAN AMBER HEARD GEORGE TAKEI I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end.... ISABEL GILLIES RYAN GUZMAN My family came to Newark in the '20s. We've been there a long, long time. My father's na... AMIRI BARAKA 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 The best compliment came from Knopf's Sonny Mehta. We were at lunch in New York with my editor, ... ADAM ROSS NICK JONAS My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spen... ELLEN POMPEO In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cr... LAURENCE YEP After 'Gremlins' came out, I should have packed up everything, moved to Los Angeles from New... ZACH GALLIGAN CHUCK D DIETER F. UCHTDORF LAILA ALI I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ... 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At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking bac... 
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Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. 
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Chance is the fool's name for Fate 
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A man who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. 