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KELLY JONES
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS
My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter. BRUCE CAMPBELL My mother helped him with the recipes, and we all kind of worked together in his business. Tim had m...
JOE MORGAN
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go... CAMILLE PAGLIA My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about co...
CARLA BRUNI
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... DONATELLA VERSACE I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple f...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... SALMAN RUSHDIE
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to g... IRIS MURDOCH My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM
The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... JILL LEPORE My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age...
CESAR MILSTEIN My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very inter...
SHIRIN NESHAT Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my...
DORIS EATON TRAVIS My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... LYNN JOHNSTON Terry worked hard in the business, and in his day, he was a very good worker who could work a gimmic...
JJ DILLON My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father did...
RUTH RENDELL My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e...
PEPE SERNA
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. PAIGE BUTCHER
My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the... WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd tak...
BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me... HILL HARPER When I was 5, my father was very much my hero. And he ran for political office in a very thankless c...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro...
JOSEPH ABBOUD
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN
My mother and grandmother had me in church, and I was the kid that played in church. But pastor was ... JOE GIBBS My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business o...
AARON KLUG My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero...
DAVE BRUBECK I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated...
NATALIA VODIANOVA My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond...
MAIRA KALMAN My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR It was difficult for my mother to travel with my father. He was 92 and he'd been sick. He couldn't d...
JAMES MAXEY
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di... LINCOLN STEFFENS My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a...
JORGE M. PEREZ
My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for support... TORI AMOS
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an acto... SHERRI SHEPHERD My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a br...
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BLAKE BAILEY
I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's w... GEORGE ZIMMER
There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he ... CHRISTIAN BALE I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in product...
ALEXANDER WANG I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to ...
STANLEY COHEN
My mother wanted to abort me, and that was basically a family secret. My grandfather stopped her and... ALVEDA KING
My father was an insurance man and a small-time gambler. He was a good man, but he had an eye for th... DON RICKLES
My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, befor... PETE TOWNSHEND My grandfather was very involved with baseball. He just used dad to do the go-for business and gave ...
BILL GRIER
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the neare... IRENE ROSENFELD
My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My moth... CHANDA KOCHHAR When we first came to Pascagoula, we saw him quite a lot. He came in here a lot and we always though...
MARY ANDERSON I was No. 6 in the pecking order and was constantly being scolded, so I got fed up and resigned. My ...
VINCENT LO My mother approved, my father just didn't accept the idea of my being an actor. I think that's the r...
JAMES STEWART The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let...
FRED WILSON
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER
My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was... VAL KILMER
I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfat... PETE SEEGER
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of Lo...
PATSY KENSIT
I think one of the worst things that happened to me was, you know, my voluntary fallout with my fath... STEVEN SPIELBERG My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better heal...
HILDA SOLIS He was really good at what he did at work. He was a real asset. He was very detailed, very thorough ...
DOUG BOWERS My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in t...
JESMYN WARD I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.
TOM SIZEMORE I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S... GEORGE TAKEI My father, a Palestinian, and my mother, an Israeli, met in a bar in New York. Their encounter was a...
HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ...
KRISTIN HAWKINS
Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unus... ANTHONY HOROWITZ I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ... HARVEY FIERSTEIN My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da...
TONY HALE
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many w...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing i...
ZACH ROERIG My father imposed me, obliged me to follow in the family business. Possibly because there was a stro...
ANGELO GAJA My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA My first roommate was from Hong Kong and spoke perfect English. He also spoke Mandarin and Cantonese...
CHERYL BAKER
While my father was a diplomat rather than a business person, I count him as a critically important ... MUHTAR KENT
God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe... CRAIG GROESCHEL
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ... KIM CATTRALL I was born Pauline Matthews and grew up in Bradford as one of three children - I had an older brothe...
KIKI DEE
My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a b... BILL NYE
He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. H... DONALD MILLER
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he ...
P. J. HARVEY
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY
When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a... MIKE PENCE I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thou...
IMRAN AMED My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in ...
GABY HOFFMANN
Hollywood, it has treated me so nicely, I am ready to faint! As soon as I see Hollywood, I love it. 
I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd u... 
No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy. 
I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adven... 
Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body. 
I have a huge disdain for those artists who say that they don't need a prize to have their talent re... 