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My first year, people were interested in me because I was new. Then the press started to come.
VALENTINO GARAVANI I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
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And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pre...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ...
KARYN PARSONS My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
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There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m...
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My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ...
KIM CATTRALL She told me that the people in her head were telling her what to do. (Then) she rolled over and s...
DONA BAILEY![]()
I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an ...
MAX VON ESSEN![]()
My Aunt Sheila was terrifying! She would put a napkin in her mouth and say, 'You've got some...
BILLY CRYSTAL They were all very supportive and started telling stories, which was the spark that got us thinking ...
ANDREA CONTE![]()
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musical...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV My mom's reaction was the funniest. I told her I was playing in the All-Star game and she said 'why?...
JIMMY ROY Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was ...
HAILEE STEINFELD I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL![]()
She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast.
CHARLES DICKENS I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always arou...
MICKY DOLENZ I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, ...
DARREN SHAN Mrs. Eckert was a strong force in my life. She helped to develop in me a strong work ethic. She was ...
LARRY PEARL![]()
I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ...
GILLIAN FLYNN When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the w...
EMILY BERRINGTON I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is go...
TERESA HEINZ I was unsure and nervous at first about moving from the teacher-to-student relationship I had with M...
AMY GREEN I grew up with gang violence. They tried to suck me in, but I wouldn't do it. I kinda got sucked in ...
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We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro...
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That's when Sam grabbed my hand. "I love this song!" She led me to the dance floor. And she started ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache...
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I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was r...
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I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t...
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra...
WALTER DEAN MYERS I thought there was a lot of speed ahead of me. I was sitting back and then I called on her and she ...
ROBBY ALBARADO I thought there was a lot of speed ahead of me, ... I was sitting back and then I called on her and ...
ROBBY ALBARADO![]()
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, whic...
ANTONIO TABUCCHI My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and t...
PAULE MARSHALL My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and th...
PAULE MARSHALL I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN Obviously, her bat is what got me interested. She hit the ball extremely well, but her arm strength ...
HOLLY VAN VLYMEN When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy...
CASEY AFFLECK I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, a...
ERICA CERRA![]()
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co...
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My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY She started yelling and screaming. She didn't want to go. My dad returned her to custody up here (in...
HEATHER BISHOP It was really nice working with her, ... She's a very sweet little girl. We had a lot of rehearsal t...
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders...
ICE T What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made ...
ELISABETH ROHM Then of course Keri came in and blew me away, ... She was the part. She was Felicity, which goes to ...
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My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music...
RUBY ROSE My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing...
JAMES COBURN Christina never called me names, which was very sweet. She said I was the only person there to suppo...
MATTHEW ASHFORD She was a very tough woman. But it seemed that she was very tender, she was very sweet, and I think ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a...
MEGAN PARK My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly u...
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My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she though...
ROBERTO BENIGNI I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe...
CAROLL SPINNEY She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left...
ANITA GATTIS She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her ...
JAMES LOWRY Believe me what I did came from my heart. She asked me for help and I gave it to her. She wanted her...
JOE SPARICO![]()
She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even m...
RICK RIORDAN![]()
My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six mon...
DAVID SEDARIS She was on the ground, and she got up and start running to the steps, and I chased her. And then she...
ASHLEY BAKER She was an incredible basketball player, but her truest gifts were her personality and love for the ...
JOAN BONVICINI Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard...
ME Just look at what is spelled:
Hal Jordan
BrUce Wayne
Victor Stone
Clark KenT...
ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester...
ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high.
ME I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It...
JOHN DARNIELLE My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there wer...
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My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave not...
DOROTHY FIELDS My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master&#...
BIG SEAN![]()
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ...
JOAN RIVERS My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD![]()
I think that the Army, being drafted, was my escape route. I was in the Army for two years, and then...
FRANK MCCOURT![]()
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
GUS VAN SANT![]()
My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t...
TIG NOTARO![]()
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ...
JAMES BALDWIN![]()
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ...
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Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
BETH HENLEY During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn'...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he...
RACHEL KUSHNER One time she went through a window to go get me help. She got glass stuck in her head. But luckily s...
GINNY DEGROFF I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the pri...
JESSICA LYNCH The best thing about it was hearing my sister ask me to give her hitting lessons.
MEGAN KELLEY My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd ta...
DAVID BLAINE I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to P...
SAFFRON BURROWS I was deeply in love with her, until she became herself and got to know me.
CHRIS RUBEL I know she went here, but she was an Indiana coach. After we met with her, it eased all my worries. ...
JODI HOWELL![]()
Now would you do me a favor?' From somewhere inside me came this devastating assault to make me cry....
ERICH SEGAL My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in na...
KIT HARINGTON![]()
I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.
DEVON SAWA EMMETT (on being a 'mama's boy'): Poppy teases me for being a mama’s boy. She ain’t wrong, but m...
BIJOU HUNTER I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had...
NORMAN LLOYD![]()
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories...
KELSEY CHOW I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s...
FIONA GUBELMANN My role in 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a cameo, but it did expose me to cinema and took me to ...
ARFI LAMBA That was a bad situation for me, ... I'm lucky I actually got a chance to wake up and see them and g...
WILLIE PONDER We were able to take a boat ride to her favorite place, and being able to tell her about that made h...
DAN BROOKS I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons...
JOHN GOKONGWEI
VALENTINO GARAVANI I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL
And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pre... MAGGIE STIEFVATER My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles ...
KARYN PARSONS My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
LAVERNE COX
There was something factitious and brittle and thereby utterly feminine about her charm which made m... IRIS MURDOCH
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ... KIM CATTRALL She told me that the people in her head were telling her what to do. (Then) she rolled over and s...
DONA BAILEY
I'm the youngest of four, and they were all very into sports. I was the first one to express an ... MAX VON ESSEN
My Aunt Sheila was terrifying! She would put a napkin in her mouth and say, 'You've got some... BILLY CRYSTAL They were all very supportive and started telling stories, which was the spark that got us thinking ...
ANDREA CONTE
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musical... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV My mom's reaction was the funniest. I told her I was playing in the All-Star game and she said 'why?...
JIMMY ROY Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was ...
HAILEE STEINFELD I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL
She led me to believe we will going fast because her thoughts were going fast. CHARLES DICKENS I had piano lessons at five and started guitar at ten, but although music and acting was always arou...
MICKY DOLENZ I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, ...
DARREN SHAN Mrs. Eckert was a strong force in my life. She helped to develop in me a strong work ethic. She was ...
LARRY PEARL
I feel like Amy wanted people to believe she really was perfect. And as we got to be friends, I got ... GILLIAN FLYNN When I was little, I was actually really shy. I really enjoyed doing school plays, but I found the w...
EMILY BERRINGTON I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is go...
TERESA HEINZ I was unsure and nervous at first about moving from the teacher-to-student relationship I had with M...
AMY GREEN I grew up with gang violence. They tried to suck me in, but I wouldn't do it. I kinda got sucked in ...
DEMAUNDRAY WOOLRIDGE
We stared at each other for several moments, neither of us speaking or moving, and then I was in fro... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT
That's when Sam grabbed my hand. "I love this song!" She led me to the dance floor. And she started ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache... AJAY NAIDU
I got to work with one of my heroes, Johnny Depp, and to see how he goes about business, which was r... ORLANDO BLOOM
I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t... CAROLINE KENNEDY
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra... WALTER DEAN MYERS I thought there was a lot of speed ahead of me. I was sitting back and then I called on her and she ...
ROBBY ALBARADO I thought there was a lot of speed ahead of me, ... I was sitting back and then I called on her and ...
ROBBY ALBARADO
I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, whic... ANTONIO TABUCCHI My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and t...
PAULE MARSHALL My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and th...
PAULE MARSHALL I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN Obviously, her bat is what got me interested. She hit the ball extremely well, but her arm strength ...
HOLLY VAN VLYMEN When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy...
CASEY AFFLECK I grew up in Vancouver and my father drove me to every single one of my acting lessons, auditions, a...
ERICA CERRA
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... LAURA MVULA
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY She started yelling and screaming. She didn't want to go. My dad returned her to custody up here (in...
HEATHER BISHOP It was really nice working with her, ... She's a very sweet little girl. We had a lot of rehearsal t...
JENNIFER CONNELLY
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders... ICE T What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made ...
ELISABETH ROHM Then of course Keri came in and blew me away, ... She was the part. She was Felicity, which goes to ...
GREG DANIELS
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... RUBY ROSE My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she ...
MEL B It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing...
JAMES COBURN Christina never called me names, which was very sweet. She said I was the only person there to suppo...
MATTHEW ASHFORD She was a very tough woman. But it seemed that she was very tender, she was very sweet, and I think ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a...
MEGAN PARK My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly u...
DAVID WROBLEWSKI
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she though... ROBERTO BENIGNI I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me whe...
CAROLL SPINNEY She would not have done that to my mother. She and my mom were very close. She would have never left...
ANITA GATTIS She said she was so mad at me for not making her very rich, but later she thanked me for making her ...
JAMES LOWRY Believe me what I did came from my heart. She asked me for help and I gave it to her. She wanted her...
JOE SPARICO
She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even m... RICK RIORDAN
My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six mon... DAVID SEDARIS She was on the ground, and she got up and start running to the steps, and I chased her. And then she...
ASHLEY BAKER She was an incredible basketball player, but her truest gifts were her personality and love for the ...
JOAN BONVICINI Life is like farting in front of someone and then trying to convince him, you didn't fart. It's hard...
ME Just look at what is spelled:
Hal Jordan
BrUce Wayne
Victor Stone
Clark KenT...
ME Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yester...
ME :) If a fangirl tells you she likes you, you better be happy. Her standards are very high.
ME I always assumed people wanted to hear me tell stories, but then I had 'The Sunset Tree.' It...
JOHN DARNIELLE My English teacher always gave me scripts for plays, but I was into sports. My friend said there wer...
SANTIAGO CABRERA
My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave not... DOROTHY FIELDS My mom graduated from the University of Michigan, which is a great school. Then she got her Master&#...
BIG SEAN
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD
I think that the Army, being drafted, was my escape route. I was in the Army for two years, and then... FRANK MCCOURT
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. GUS VAN SANT
My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole t... TIG NOTARO
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ... JAMES BALDWIN
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you ... JAMES BALDWIN
Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class. BETH HENLEY During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn'...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on he...
RACHEL KUSHNER One time she went through a window to go get me help. She got glass stuck in her head. But luckily s...
GINNY DEGROFF I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the pri...
JESSICA LYNCH The best thing about it was hearing my sister ask me to give her hitting lessons.
MEGAN KELLEY My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd ta...
DAVID BLAINE I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to P...
SAFFRON BURROWS I was deeply in love with her, until she became herself and got to know me.
CHRIS RUBEL I know she went here, but she was an Indiana coach. After we met with her, it eased all my worries. ...
JODI HOWELL
Now would you do me a favor?' From somewhere inside me came this devastating assault to make me cry.... ERICH SEGAL My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in na...
KIT HARINGTON
I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me. DEVON SAWA EMMETT (on being a 'mama's boy'): Poppy teases me for being a mama’s boy. She ain’t wrong, but m...
BIJOU HUNTER I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had...
NORMAN LLOYD
The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought... MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories...
KELSEY CHOW I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, s...
FIONA GUBELMANN My role in 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a cameo, but it did expose me to cinema and took me to ...
ARFI LAMBA That was a bad situation for me, ... I'm lucky I actually got a chance to wake up and see them and g...
WILLIE PONDER We were able to take a boat ride to her favorite place, and being able to tell her about that made h...
DAN BROOKS I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons...
JOHN GOKONGWEI
It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sens... 
God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing el... 
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. 
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liber... 
One of the tragedies of the struggle against racism is that up to now there has been no national org... 
One can give without loving, but one cannot love without giving 
I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active. 
I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal. 
The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dive... 
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that... 
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people t... 
Many states favor joint custody. 
Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card. 