Stanley Hauerwas
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DYLAN CALLENS NANCY E. TURNER JOAN LINGARD SHILPA SHETTY KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR MURIEL SPARK Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged a... JANET MCTEER BRAD PAISLEY KATHA POLLITT BUCK OWENS My mother was totally different from the mothers of my friends. She would never separate from me. In... CHANTAL AKERMAN CHLOE SEVIGNY My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ... PAUL GIAMATTI WILL ROGERS I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wif... JASON ALDEAN ANGELINA JOLIE DENIS JOHNSON NATALIE MERCHANT My daddy didn't even sign my birth certificate. So I ain't never had his last name. FUTURE JUSTIN CHON My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was... KAROLYN GRIMES I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she... MAE WHITMAN My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer... SUE MILLER NENIA CAMPBELL KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR RUTH REICHL When I was born my father spent three weeks trying to find a loophole in my birth certificate. JACKIE VERNON TYLER PERRY There was something inside of her that was shining from her. I wanted what she had. She was filled w... MARLENE ROSENBERG DOROTHY ALLISON DIANE VON FURSTENBERG POLLY TOYNBEE I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought... RORY KENNEDY ANNE LAMOTT ALAN FURST BILL MURRAY BARBARA DEMICK I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had... NORMAN LLOYD JADE JAGGER I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ... HARRIET WALTER I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ... DAVID BLAINE When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six mon... LUKE RHINEHART I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ... CAROL S. REBELLO I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western ... PETER NYGARD For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one th... PRESTON STURGES NEIL GAIMAN DENIS JOHNSON TOM REISS RODNEY ATKINS DREW GILPIN FAUST I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was somethi... CARMEN EJOGO I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hi... JOHN CLEESE JULIE KAGAWA LAURA MVULA Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem F... ESKINDER NEGA JOAN RIVERS When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that,... CICELY TYSON COLIN KAEPERNICK SARAH JESSICA PARKER My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ... BONNIE TYLER JOHNNY CASH My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. ... CHRISTOPHER JUDGE I desperately wanted to play the part of Darth Vader's mother - I think she ended up being playe... LINDSAY DUNCAN Ma was legally blind due to a degenerative eye disease she'd had since birth. This meant she was... LIZ MURRAY My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my da... ARI MILLEN I wanted to be around my mother's family. It was really important to me. That was the place where sh... MANDY SMOKER LYNN JOHNSTON I was four when I started modeling. My mom was very much an off-the-stage mom who knew nothing about... CHARLOTTE ARNOLD My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn&#... JASON ALDEAN My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't suc... JACK WHITEHALL My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damo... NATASCHA MCELHONE CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE ANDY KINDLER THIRUVALLUVAR When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birt... NANCY FRIDAY I was about to die; and then she gave me a birth again WRUSHANK SORTE My daughter, if she chooses to have a home birth or a midwife at her birth I want that to be an opti... STACY DAVIS The woman was killed while she was heavily pregnant. She was expecting to give birth to a child soon... MOATSHE NGOEPE GILLIAN JACOBS RISA LAVIZZO-MOUREY I had to come out to my mother three times over a twelve-year period, but I first came out to her wh... BILLY PORTER It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My s... M.I.A. WALTER DEAN MYERS My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I wa... DANE COOK
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