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Related My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... JOSHUA BELL My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, a... ANNE LAMOTT I am a Christian. My husband and I belong to the Episcopal Church. SANDY ADAMS I sort of adopted Manson as my father, BRUCE DAVIS At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My fath... MICHAEL CAINE I was born and raised Catholic, so it's in my blood. I don't go to church... I was born and ... TOM ARAYA I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family w... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Ep... STANLEY HAUERWAS My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churc... MICKEY SPILLANE When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I ... LANA DEL REY In my family, we were on again off again Unitarians, partly because my father, raised Roman Catholic... STACEY D'ERASMO My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... CHRISTY TURLINGTON I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father... BOB LIVINGSTON My sense is if the Episcopal Church can't stand challenge within its own ranks, then it is not a... JOHN SHELBY SPONG Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my o... SKRILLEX I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all ... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. AARON NEVILLE I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any... QUEEN LATIFAH I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United State... HENRY LOUIS GATES Like the graduates of some notorious boot camp, my brothers and sisters and I look back with a sort ... STEPHEN J. DUBNER I go to St. Matthews in Pacific Palisades, an Episcopal Church. STEPHEN COLLINS My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about fa... JOHN EDGAR WIDEMAN My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP In my elementary days, I took a liking to rock & roll music. I dabbed into Marilyn Manson, which... LIL UZI VERT I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother i... GEORGE ZIMMERMAN The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chape... STANLEY HAUERWAS I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I... MICHAEL EISNER 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 father was an Episcopal minister, and for 14 years my family lived in China, in a city called Wuc... AUDREY MEADOWS I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, an... CAMILLA BELLE I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ... DARYL HALL I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD The Episcopal Church has been hijacked by the revisionist leadership. CYNTHIA BRUST We had a very normal, sort of ghetto, urban upbringing. My father was a bus driver and my mother was... WOOD HARRIS My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to ... KING GEORGE V My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respecte... JANE PAULEY She did, however, believe in Heaven because it was a ladylike place with pink clouds, harp music, an... FLORENCE KING I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people... KIMBERLY BRUBAKER BRADLEY But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10. ALICE COOPER I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my famil... CHRISTOPHER MOORE My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ... ALISON BECHDEL Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Growing up, I was vaguely aware of things that went on in church, because I was in the boys' cho... FRANCIS COLLINS My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church. TINA TURNER I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my fir... ALICE MCDERMOTT I'm a closet Catholic. I love the iconography of the saints. There was a point in my life when I... LYNDA RESNICK My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite... JAMIE CULLUM I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off. ANI DIFRANCO I'd taken three years off to live as a normal person, so this was my first time back into it, and it... CAMILLA BELLE My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. ARTHUR ROCK I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am r... ZIGGY MARLEY I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. PARIS JACKSON I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l... ANNE FOX My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES My family never took me to church except a couple of times. But when I was 12, I hung out with this ... BRIAN WELCH My mother says that my father truly enjoyed having a son. My two-years-younger twin sisters felt tha... ROBERT F. ENGLE I can honestly say that there was no nurturing at all. I mean, we were fed. We were well clothed. Th... MELODY STRONG I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ... FRIDA GIANNINI My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew. CHARLES PLANCON My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-d... J. G. BALLARD I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my... JOANNA GOING I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the f... CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to sch... DAISY BERKOWITZ My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in J... POPE FRANCIS My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I thi... DAVID BOWIE Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife. LYNDON B. JOHNSON I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches. AARON NEVILLE My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a... JORGE M. PEREZ I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister. ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid.... XAVIER RUDD After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled... RONNIE MUSGROVE I was raised in a Catholic family, spent twelve years in parochial schools, and had extremely fond m... JENNIFER HAIGH I grew up the son of a Seventh Day Adventist minister, so I was really close to the church and sang ... AL JARREAU In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My hom... GENE LUEN YANG My father and my mother separated when I was two. CARLA GUGINO I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I ha... LEE SMITH I was so emotionally distraught. I missed my father. Those first couple days were really hard. LARRY GARZA My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red.... SHERRI SHEPHERD My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the... TAJ MAHAL I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to ... STANLEY COHEN My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t... TERI GARR My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk fro... WLADYSLAW REYMONT My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on... CHARLES KURALT She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of m... GRAHAM GREENE My first memories of music are of my mother playing Dominican music in the house because my parents ... CYRILLE AIMEE I was raised as a Catholic, but I didn't like the Catholic Church at all. I thought the nuns wer... FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my moth... AGNES MACPHAIL It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so ... KARRIE WEBB I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was o... JANET JACKSON My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond... MAIRA KALMAN
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