My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.
Dianna Agron
Related We lived in my father's studio, so there were the brushes and the pencils and the paint. So it w... JAMIE WYETH My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was ... DANNY AIELLO My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva ... JUDY BLUME Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not s... AL LOPEZ My dream is to leave this business on my own terms, and if it were my terms, I would love to do the ... JAKE ROBERTS I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mu... NATASHA RICHARDSON With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t... JACQUES VILLENEUVE The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could n... AL LOPEZ We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitc... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce... JECON B. NADELA There were so many versions out there, and he (Roosevelt) was bothered by it. He asked my father to ... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if... OSCAR WILDE My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP Peeta would lose it if he knew I was thinking any of this, so I only say, “So what should we do wi... SUZANNE COLLINS Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we wer... SARAH DESSEN If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a mana... LOU BROCK 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 always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ... WYNTON MARSALIS I would do as I was told, but I had a growing resentment about what was happening. It damaged my rel... GRAHAM COXON I just always really wanted to swim. It was always a family thing: dad obviously swam, and my sister... AIMEE WILLMOTT When he was in his late 60s, he was still beating us young kids who thought we were hot stuff, but w... DION SHIVELY He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my fa... ANNE HECHE My general sensibility is most certainly comedic. But when I signed with my manager, he said, 'I... BENJAMIN KOLDYKE I remember watching 'EastEnders' as a kid with my mum, and even my dad would be gripped by t... BEN HARDY I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had lef... JEWELL PARKER RHODES I was trying not to get my head down because it was three minutes in and I knew we had time to come ... LINDSAY THOMPSON Everyone in my family pretty much has gone here so it seemed like the only option. I think (Lott) al... JENNIFER HOWARD Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, tak... JODI PICOULT Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a pa... ROMAN COPPOLA The trees around and overhead were so thick that it was always dry inside and on Sunday morning I la... SHIRLEY JACKSON I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI At times I am flabbergasted that my memory is considered false and my alcoholic father's memory is c... JENNIFER J. FREYD My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... APOLO OHNO My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin... HUGH JACKMAN I get so sad that sad gets to be. So scared that all my feelings they up and leave me. I got so... TEGAN QUIN My father was a really funny guy. He lived a good long life. And he was the reason I wanted to be fu... CAROL LEIFER We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give ... AMY CARMICHAEL My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha... ALAN C. GREENBERG My father used to be a fisherman, so it always makes me feel close to him when I am there on the wat... IRINA SHAYK I used to steal my father's cologne, and it was so strong. My mother would always know when I di... TREY SONGZ He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league st... RYAN GIGGS The past never went away and it was not designed to do so. It would always be there, and it sh... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT Kim Beazley said my book would only be a two-day wonder, so he was not too worried about it, MARK LATHAM I would never do another sitcom. It was so boring I wanted to pull my fingernails off. DANIEL BALDWIN When I was training, I trained with my younger brother Brady. I would wrestle some of my friends, wh... JAIMIE ALEXANDER My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up... HUGH JACKMAN my goal for high school was to make mascot and i got it by practiceing my skit for hours i would not... DALLY SALAD My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around. GARY HUME What can you say? What happens, happens. It was my last game. We were so close. It's hard to think a... EMILIE KNIGHT When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in... CHAZ BONO I was in a room with my general manager and afterward someone reported not what I said, but what som... BOBBY VALENTINE My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my e... LEONARD COHEN One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would b... CONOR OBERST It was my first final, so I was a little bit overwhelmed at the whole atmosphere. It was still a clo... IVO KARLOVIC My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true,... SONAKSHI SINHA We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things ... AUGUST WILSON I always value my large kitchen because it was better to do everything there, you wash up, you do ev... BUCHI EMECHETA I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ... SOPHIE B. HAWKINS I would have never thought that my grandfather's Spanish and my Spanish were so different. I thought... GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect ... JASON RITTER I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he di... PATTI DAVIS It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were n... ORSON PRATT What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been ... KAZUO ISHIGURO He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart... CRAIG REID Cross country was something that started off as a punishment from my father for low grades. I guess ... A.J. ELLISON Our father has always been very passionate about taekwondo. In all honesty, we were forced into it w... CAROLINE MARTON In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to Peanuts land and save everybody. Charlie Brow... ALICIA WITT I was fortunate to come from a family that never had those problems. My parents were able to fully s... ERICA HOWARD I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was ... JOSHUA SLOCUM It felt like I was living in two worlds. There was one world which was a daylight world and another ... LAURIE MATTHEW My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there... ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe... LAINIE KAZAN But in this case, he had my cell phone and my phone was ringing and I had just come back from Austra... RADHA MITCHELL Raffe looks over at the bloody knife in my hand. "If I still had any doubts that it was you, that wo... SUSAN EE When I was young I would spend more money than I should with my credit card but my father cut it off... CARMEN BUSQUETS Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa... KATHLEEN TURNER Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl... JENNA MORASCA I had a hole in my voice. I still do. We call it a hole, but it's an area in the voice where it&... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoy... LYNDON B. JOHNSON I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot... ANTHONY BROWNE My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff. LAUREN GRAHAM My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h... JODI PICOULT So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of... NICK CANNON I’ve never been so clear about anything in my life. I turned around, made my way to that room you ... JAMIE MCGUIRE It is painful for me because I would love to sit down and talk to my dad about the way he used to be... LAILA ALI When I turned 16, my dad made me sign a contract - he made us sign contracts for everything - that i... KIM KARDASHIAN When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I ... DAVID CASSIDY From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular mess... P.G. WODEHOUSE Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking u... LUKE BRYAN I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had n... HENRY FONDA My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watc... CAMERON RUSSELL If there was any petting to be done...he chose to do it. Often he would sit looking at me, and then,... CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER I forced myself to stop thinking about it. I went to the room in my brain where all my thoughts abou... MARIAN KEYES I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the... MUHAMMAD ALI
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