Eleanor Roosevelt
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TERI GARR I attribute my entire football career, as far as getting me started, getting me interested, keeping ... BOB LILLY My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metrop... DOUGLASS NORTH He was the love of my life. My soul hurts ... He was my best friend. MELISSA GLICK OLIVIA HUSSEY JOHNNY CASH My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the ... WILLARD WIGAN CECELIA AHERN From him I got my love for music, and for many years I was the classical music critic for magazines ... MARK ROTHKO TRACY K. SMITH LUPE FIASCO I started to read James Baldwin very early on in my life. At a time, as a young adult in the Sixties... RAOUL PECK As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th... SUNIL MITTAL CAM NEWTON I grew up reading Proust all my life, and he's very dear to me. 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