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MY TEACHER
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... DAVID CASSIDY
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my... BARBRA STREISAND
My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ... CHARLIE ROWE My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about co...
CARLA BRUNI
The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepf... JEFF BUCKLEY
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. SIMON VAN DER MEER My father is a teacher; my mother was a telecom employee. I come from Palermo; I was raised in Ethio...
LUCA GUADAGNINO My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS
My joke is that my father was a minister and my mother was an English teacher, so I'm trained to... LIBBA BRAY
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CHUCK CLOSE
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CHARLES PLANCON My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
LAVERNE COX
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee... DAVID LEE My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
ARTHUR ROCK I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ...
FRIDA GIANNINI I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. JAMES CAMERON
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. S. E. HINTON
My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. LIZA MINNELLI
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me... HILL HARPER
Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The fi... ORIANA FALLACI
My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me. DIEGO MARADONA My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
ANGIE DICKINSON
My first thought in life was wanting to be an actor. I was in ballet slippers and on pointe as soon ... LORETTA SWIT
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; m... CHINUA ACHEBE
My mother is my teacherHer words make me richer
I thank you oh my mother
May you gro...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of rol... JULIE ANDREWS
A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher. DAVID BERGEN
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a ... STEVIE WONDER
Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as... STEVIE WONDER
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... JOSHUA BELL I love my heritage! I have my mother, who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I ha...
ALICIA KEYS My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age...
CESAR MILSTEIN
My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. H... PRIYANKA CHOPRA
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ... KIM CATTRALL
Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl... JENNA MORASCA My mom was a single mother, raising my sister and me. My mom has an incredible talent for living in ...
GABY HOFFMANN My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My...
AJAY MEHTA
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superi... LONI ANDERSON My mother, my psychiatrist and an assortment of sedatives eventually convinced me I was delusional.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... MIKE NICHOLS My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a...
GEORGE EMIL PALADE Everything in my life boils down to my mother. A tradition, which a lot of people do not know of, is...
SONU NIGAM I was always into sports and a lot of physical activities. My dad was a kickboxer and a body builder...
BILLY MAGNUSSEN My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
RAMI MALEK My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician.
JAI COURTNEY
My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic. MANOLO BLAHNIK I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,...
ERIC DICKERSON My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers...
BRIAN HERBERT My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe... RUBEN BLADES My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD
I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ...
DARYL HALL My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. T. D. JAKES
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... WALE
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL
I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down. MARIA CALLAS My father and my mother separated when I was two.
CARLA GUGINO I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
ZIYI ZHANG My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC
I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York. KIM RAVER
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha...
MARTIN CLUNES
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T
I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I though... CHIWETEL EJIOFOR My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG I am most attached to my mother, who always travels with me when I am on an outdoor location or abro...
KAJAL AGGARWAL What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her l...
AL LEWIS
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about fin... JENNIFER GARNER
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public schoo... ELLIOTT ABRAMS
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... JILL LEPORE
I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life. ADAM SANDLER My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa...
WENDY LIEBMAN
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. PAIGE BUTCHER
My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. BEAU BRIDGES When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ...
JEFF KINNEY My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my f...
GREG ILES
When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!&#... SALLY FIELD
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was o... LARRY ELDER My parents are the last of the middle class. My father worked for the government designing sea mines...
LEWIS BLACK
I know my father believed and my mother believed in and supported the suffrage movement, and I remem... ALICE PAUL
I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had ... TEMPLE GRANDIN
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like per... RICHARD DREYFUSS My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e...
PEPE SERNA My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.
EVA HERZIGOVA
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying fo... STEVE HARVEY
My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. BRODERICK CRAWFORD The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utter... ROLAND BARTHES
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always. JACK KEROUAC
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. 
There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that... 
I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge. 
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. 
A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t... 
I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor. 
Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts. 
You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one. 
Free love sounds great. 
I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon... 