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MARCUS CAMBY
My grandmother was fond of painting and playing the piano. She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Ch... YVES CHAUVIN
I happen to be a guy who also plays the piano and sings, so people automatically associate me with B... GAVIN DEGRAW And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
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KYLE DUNNIGAN Music has been an important part of my life forever. I played piano since birth. I've been a church ...
LARRY MARTIN
There was a kid that used to pick on me... he used to drop my food and beat me up in little corners.... BRENDON URIE And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
CAROLINE CORR Sometimes the little things are what means more to me
DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons...
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My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it... GAVIN DEGRAW I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the ke...
CAROLINE CORR I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom...
BILLY PRESTON There's an absence of things to do for adult singles in the area. There aren't places like there use...
ART WURSTER My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;...
QUENTIN BRYCE I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra...
JOHN NASH
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Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother ... ROSECRANS BALDWIN I grew up watching my grandmother sew things. . . . She never threw things out, she fixed them with ...
ELEONORE FAUCHER I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - a...
ELIZA COUPE
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother. BOB EDWARDS My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.
RICHARD LEWIS My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once
RICHARD LEWIS
I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might... PAYNE STEWART When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things...
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ISAAC HANSON
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... JOE GIBBS
I used to hang out with grandfather all the time because he used to pick me up from school sometimes... CHRIS ROCK Here in New Orleans, what a lot of the musical families do - and this is a romantic concept on my pa...
DAVE PIRNER My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I...
MARK RONSON You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my...
CHARLIE WORSHAM
I used to eat lunch with Billy Wilder when I first came out here. RICHARD SERRA
They taught me different was wrong. ANI DIFRANCO I was able to get my hands inside and I probably used a little nudge from J.B. (Bettis) in the back ...
HEATH MILLER I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to su...
ALICIA WITT My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his m...
CHLOE GRACE MORETZ When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and...
GARRY MARSHALL
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr... EDDIE VAN HALEN Do yourself a favor instead of waking up and telling yourself that it's another boring day at work o...
ELIZABETH ANN GREY
It's very important to me that I look good when I go out publicly. I like looking at my clothes ... ANNA WINTOUR Billy Joel and Joe Jackson were both great, and they both play piano.
BEN FOLDS They're all artists that I know and have played for me over the years. They're gracious enough to do...
CHUCK MORRIS
I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cu... KYLE CHANDLER
The last thing that scared me... it was probably something stupid, like when someone jumped out at m... REBECCA HALL
I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe mus... MARY J. BLIGE
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My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she'd play when ... TOM HOLLAND
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My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. HENNY YOUNGMAN My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
HENRY YOUNGMAN
Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the Pink Panther theme. That was my goal. Once I was... JACK BLACK I sat down at the piano and my hands began to browse over the keys. Then something happened. I felt ...
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BRIAN VILLORIA
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Asia has been great to me. I played a good round of golf this afternoon and there you go. I've got t... ADAM SCOTT I usually play really good when it is big games, but we really wanted to win tonight, and that was e...
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I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen. JULIAN BARNES That's one of the things that really helped me get over the U.S. Open, ... I walked off the golf cou...
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My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at ... BOBBY KNIGHT I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my da...
DAVID WALLIAMS
I credit my grandmother for teaching me to love and respect food. She taught me how to waste nothing... MARCUS SAMUELSSON
I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. I... ROBERT BENCHLEY My grandmother always used to tell me, if I had a problem, I was only allowed to complain for one se...
EUZHAN PALCY
Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I ... MATT CAMERON
I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very... DAVID NICHOLLS
I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the 'Pink Panther' theme. That was my goal. ... JACK BLACK One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at mysel...
ANNA FARIS There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
ERNIE ISLEY
Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little... MUDDY WATERS I used to feed spiders in the hedgerow where my grandmother used to live. I used to spend hours just...
NICHOLAS MARTIN
My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. HENNY YOUNGMAN
I used to get taxed on my allowance. Yeah, I've been taxed since I was a little kid. And at the ... LAUREN CONRAD It was really surreal. I had some family members there. I felt like I got the monkey off my back and...
ALAINA HARTMAN When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing...
JON FAVREAU
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD There were a lot of mistakes (Thursday) that could've been avoided. This time I just went out and pl...
ANTOINE JORDAN
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, m... WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART My game's a little shaky. I could go out and shoot four under, I could go out and shoot four over. I...
BRETT WETTERICH
I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recen... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weeke...
AARON LEVIE Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to ...
SAAD HARIRI It's really important to me to keep that traditional vow in there, to use the ones that my parents u...
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God has a big eraser. 
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I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there. 
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