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When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had lef... JEWELL PARKER RHODES ROBIN WRIGHT JOAN RIVERS My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my... EDDIE MATHEWS I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou... ALAN BRADLEY BETTE MIDLER ROBERTO BENIGNI TIM HUDSON My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a... GEORGE EMIL PALADE In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life ... TEA OBREHT ALICE WALKER There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother... JOAN CHEN GIGI HADID I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I ... DEBRA MESSING The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s. 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My mother and father knew how to guide my care... LARENZ TATE JOHN HUME I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated... NATALIA VODIANOVA My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ... JEFF KINNEY STEPHENIE MEYER JEAN-MICHEL JARRE When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up.... NICOLAS ROEG MARISSA MAYER KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was... KAROLYN GRIMES But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin... BEATRICE WOOD JIMMY CARTER KENDRICK LAMAR DIEGO MARADONA DREW BARRYMORE NICHOLAS SPARKS My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was ... KYM WHITLEY I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv... GAIL SIMMONS I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest s... DAVID R. ELLIS I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother... KAJOL KURT COBAIN When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem... KAJOL When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forge... HATTIE MCDANIEL PAT RILEY I screamed and something went off in my head. Immediately it was this huge headache, like my head wa... TOM DUFFY It was a girdle ? and I had to give it to my mother! MARTI HOLLAND NATALIE MERCHANT I was raised to ignore it. It was something my mother's generation saw as an embarrassment. It was c... HANKUS NETSKY BARRY SANDERS One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to... ABRAHAM PAIS The larger things that this book -- and all my books -- revolve around are a woman's id, ... And how... JENNIFER WEINER ROBERTO BENIGNI I think it was a huge blow to us. We've got to learn to overcome things like that and continue to pl... SHANE PATRICK RUBEN BLADES LEE KUAN YEW My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep ... SHEENA EASTON I was honored to have served in the Army for my country. I was at Anzio during WWII, and it makes yo... JAMES ARNESS JON KABAT-ZINN Dr. King stood for nonviolence and not judging people by their skin and he was someone I looked up t... BARRY PURVIS I. M. PEI My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew. CHARLES PLANCON My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this littl... PHILIP TREACY DAVID BENIOFF JOAN LINGARD I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw th... VING RHAMES Even if I have a home in Paris and sometimes in New York, whenever I was saying I have to go home, i... CHANTAL AKERMAN QUENTIN CRISP I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to ... STANLEY COHEN BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I fel... MARISA BERENSON TIG NOTARO RAM SHRIRAM
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