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My favorite shoe brand is Christian Louboutin - I don't have a favorite shoe store per se.
YUAN YUAN TAN As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL![]()
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education...
DWIGHT YOAKAM I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG She was always helping us out somewhere. She was on the store setup team and helped set up a lot of ...
JULIE GRIMM My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...
VINCENT GALLO![]()
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in th...
KEVIN SPACEY I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON![]()
When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say &#...
ALFIE ALLEN![]()
My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothe...
JERRY HALL We had a teacher in college tell us, if you're gonna open a shoe store, open a shoe store next to an...
DAVE WATTS![]()
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ...
PATTI SMITH![]()
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, ...
LES DAWSON![]()
My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is ...
DANA HILL My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. ...
CHRISTOPHER JUDGE![]()
Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified.
KATE WINSLET![]()
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa...
PARIS JACKSON![]()
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she coul...
DAWN STEEL![]()
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ...
EDMUND WHITE My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri...
DAVID BLAINE I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought...
RORY KENNEDY![]()
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we...
TORI AMOS My mother approved, my father just didn't accept the idea of my being an actor. I think that's the r...
JAMES STEWART Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. Ther...
ANDREA SEIGEL![]()
I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur...
CAROLYN KIZER My mum used to ride, and when she was mucking out, I always wanted to sit on a horse. And if she too...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN![]()
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was...
BLAKE LIVELY![]()
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so...
A. R. RAHMAN![]()
Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.
BURT LANCASTER![]()
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.
SIDNEY POITIER![]()
If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope.
HENNY YOUNGMAN![]()
My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days ...
XAVIER RUDD![]()
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college pro...
MEG CABOT![]()
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind...
LYNN JOHNSTON![]()
I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos ...
ACTION BRONSON![]()
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle p...
PAUL RYAN![]()
If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as...
KAREN JOY FOWLER The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only ...
QUINN SHEPHARD![]()
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di...
CAROLINE KENNEDY Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha...
MARTIN CLUNES![]()
Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books ...
DR. SEUSS I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the rack...
ASHLEY TISDALE![]()
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money....
ORNETTE COLEMAN![]()
Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She ...
MICHAEL PHELPS![]()
I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Igu...
IGGY POP![]()
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist in...
AYELET WALDMAN![]()
In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious abou...
SONAM KAPOOR![]()
Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a cou...
AL FRANKEN![]()
I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, &#...
CHRIS HEMSWORTH![]()
I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, becau...
DAREN KAGASOFF![]()
My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like somet...
MARLO THOMAS![]()
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad...
TRACY MORGAN I imagine him working in a women's shoe store. Like, 'Oh, I have a pair of shoes for you. Stay there...
SHARON CAMBRIDGE I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe...
LAINIE KAZAN My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking......
MICHELLE PHAN![]()
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boa...
WOODY ALLEN![]()
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He...
MACAULAY CULKIN![]()
I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give ...
PAUL JOHNSON![]()
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. An...
AMY ADAMS![]()
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&...
TOM WOLFE![]()
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON![]()
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd pa...
EDMUND WHITE![]()
I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read ...
KATHERINE MCNAMARA Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on m...
SCOTT ANDERSON I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Ha...
TODD PHILLIPS![]()
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged...
LISA KLEYPAS![]()
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin...
HUGH JACKMAN I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro...
JOSEPH ABBOUD My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN![]()
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a...
OLIVIA HUSSEY I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates...
LESLEY NICOL I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in o...
EMILY BERRINGTON But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It ...
EDDIE CAMPBELL I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'...
DAVE BRUBECK My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to s...
JASON CLARKE Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and withou...
MITCH MCCONNELL I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she...
MAE WHITMAN My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a ...
AL YANKOVIC My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son...
ADRIANO GIANNINI![]()
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go...
CAMILLE PAGLIA![]()
My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it...
CAROL LEIFER![]()
When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said sh...
NICOLA ADAMS I remember I was unsure about doing 'Shameless.' I'd never acted in anything so commerci...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out o...
DAVID CONE My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in f...
EDWARD P. JONES My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had...
GEMMA ARTERTON![]()
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother in...
DONNA BRAZILE I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw...
JANE MARCH My life changed in 2005 on the day I met my wife, Tamzin. She was in a play called 'Breathing Co...
TOM ELLIS![]()
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha...
DAVID NICHOLLS![]()
I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its st...
ISLA FISHER
YUAN YUAN TAN As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education... DWIGHT YOAKAM I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG She was always helping us out somewhere. She was on the store setup team and helped set up a lot of ...
JULIE GRIMM My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...
VINCENT GALLO
After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in th... KEVIN SPACEY I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON
When I was a kid, I was roaming through Glastonbury Festival at eight years old, on my own. I say &#... ALFIE ALLEN
My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothe... JERRY HALL We had a teacher in college tell us, if you're gonna open a shoe store, open a shoe store next to an...
DAVE WATTS
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH
Mind you, I've always been musical... Mother used to sit me on her knee and I'd whisper, ... LES DAWSON
My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is ... DANA HILL My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. ...
CHRISTOPHER JUDGE
Before I was a mother, if I'd been photographed in a bikini, I'd have been mortified. KATE WINSLET
Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa... PARIS JACKSON
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she coul... DAWN STEEL
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest tri...
DAVID BLAINE I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought...
RORY KENNEDY
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he we... TORI AMOS My mother approved, my father just didn't accept the idea of my being an actor. I think that's the r...
JAMES STEWART Did she say anything before she died?" he asked.
"Yes," the surgeon said. "She said, 'Forgive h...
SHERMAN ALEXIE I'd go to the library so I could sit in a big, quiet room and listen to pages being turned. Ther...
ANDREA SEIGEL
I began writing poems when I was about eight, with a heavy assist from my mother. She read me Arthur... CAROLYN KIZER My mum used to ride, and when she was mucking out, I always wanted to sit on a horse. And if she too...
CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was... BLAKE LIVELY
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so... A. R. RAHMAN
Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts. BURT LANCASTER
I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. SIDNEY POITIER
If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope. HENNY YOUNGMAN
My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days ... XAVIER RUDD
I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college pro... MEG CABOT
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... LYNN JOHNSTON
I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos ... ACTION BRONSON
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle p... PAUL RYAN
If I'm made to pick one transcendent reading experience, then it was listening to Miss Sarzin as... KAREN JOY FOWLER The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only ...
QUINN SHEPHARD
I never thought I'd be doing poetry books. I never really studied poetry. But the first one I di... CAROLINE KENNEDY Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha...
MARTIN CLUNES
Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books ... DR. SEUSS I did find some time to go to a record store and check out 'Headstrong' actually in the rack...
ASHLEY TISDALE
I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.... ORNETTE COLEMAN
Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She ... MICHAEL PHELPS
I became Iggy because I had a sadistic boss at a record store. I'd been in a band called the Igu... IGGY POP
Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist in... AYELET WALDMAN
In a lot of ways, if I were ambitious about anything - besides my career - I'd be ambitious abou... SONAM KAPOOR
Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a cou... AL FRANKEN
I'd like to think I'm a normal sort of guy, but go to my mum and she'll probably say, &#... CHRIS HEMSWORTH
I got really bad grades, so I'd hide my report card from my dad. My mom was in on it, too, becau... DAREN KAGASOFF
My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like somet... MARLO THOMAS
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN I imagine him working in a women's shoe store. Like, 'Oh, I have a pair of shoes for you. Stay there...
SHARON CAMBRIDGE I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe...
LAINIE KAZAN My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking......
MICHELLE PHAN
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boa... WOODY ALLEN
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He... MACAULAY CULKIN
I was very fond of Princess Diana. She used to have me over to lunch to ask my advice. I'd give ... PAUL JOHNSON
I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. An... AMY ADAMS
My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&... TOM WOLFE
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON
My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd pa... EDMUND WHITE
I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read ... KATHERINE MCNAMARA Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on m...
SCOTT ANDERSON I'd love to do a movie with females in it, and not necessarily the female version of 'The Ha...
TODD PHILLIPS
I'd gone to Wellesley College, an amazing women's college where the students were encouraged... LISA KLEYPAS
My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin... HUGH JACKMAN I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro...
JOSEPH ABBOUD My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates...
LESLEY NICOL I did a geography degree, and if you told me whilst I was ignoring my geography degree revision in o...
EMILY BERRINGTON But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It ...
EDDIE CAMPBELL I used to take my mother to Yosemite. When I turned 14, I got my driver's license, and that'...
DAVE BRUBECK My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to s...
JASON CLARKE Nurses told my mother that I was going to be OK. They thought I could walk without a limp and withou...
MITCH MCCONNELL I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she...
MAE WHITMAN My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a ...
AL YANKOVIC My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son...
ADRIANO GIANNINI
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go... CAMILLE PAGLIA
My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it... CAROL LEIFER
When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said sh... NICOLA ADAMS I remember I was unsure about doing 'Shameless.' I'd never acted in anything so commerci...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF My buddy David Wells is a big motorcycle guy, so when I go visit him in San Diego, he takes me out o...
DAVID CONE My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in f...
EDWARD P. JONES My mother, she had a very good attitude toward money. I'm very grateful for the fact that we had...
GEMMA ARTERTON
If I could have gotten my way at an early age, I would have entered the priesthood, but my mother in... DONNA BRAZILE I was very ambitious. It all started because my first boyfriend dumped me when I was 14. I'd alw...
JANE MARCH My life changed in 2005 on the day I met my wife, Tamzin. She was in a play called 'Breathing Co...
TOM ELLIS
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha... DAVID NICHOLLS
I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its st... ISLA FISHER
The menu is not the meal. 
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. 
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of ... 
Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not ... 
There is technique to it-he is just standing there flexing his arm, and I am standing there making f... 
Poetry is the language of feeling. 
What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how... 
Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life d... 
Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in the crown of majesty. 
Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the ... 
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com... 
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. 
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. 
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po... 
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. 
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out. 
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me ch... 