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My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
DANNY AIELLO![]()
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They w...
JANINE DI GIOVANNI![]()
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I on...
MADONNA CICCONE My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER![]()
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m...
DONALD TRUMP My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to...
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;...
QUENTIN BRYCE![]()
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv...
RUDY GIULIANI![]()
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me...
HILL HARPER![]()
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Hol...
EDDIE VAN HALEN My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especia...
DEVAL PATRICK I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY![]()
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di...
LINCOLN STEFFENS![]()
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspape...
ROBERT HARRIS![]()
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outs...
HEATHER WHITESTONE He was a wonderful father. He was always trying to teach her something -- not like school-type lesso...
BETHANY PARKER I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano less...
CASSIE VENTURA![]()
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 mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...
CHUCK CLOSE My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES![]()
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ...
PATTI SMITH Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ...
LEONARD ROSE![]()
My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I thi...
DAVID BOWIE I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo...
ROBERT H. GRUBBS![]()
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always w...
ROBERT CORMIER My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age...
CESAR MILSTEIN I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES![]()
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ...
RIDLEY SCOTT![]()
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some...
WARREN BEATTY The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG![]()
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
T. D. JAKES![]()
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi...
TYLER PERRY![]()
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
RACHAEL LEIGH COOK My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel...
ERIKA SLEZAK![]()
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea...
WALTER MOSLEY There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
ERNIE ISLEY My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS![]()
My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My moth...
CHANDA KOCHHAR![]()
I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that t...
JOHN C. REILLY My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such a...
GALE GORDON My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE![]()
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.
PAIGE BUTCHER![]()
When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black be...
ELODIE YUNG My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT![]()
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ...
EDMUND WHITE![]()
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo...
SPIKE MILLIGAN I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL![]()
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
SPIKE MILLIGAN![]()
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
SPIKE MILLIGAN![]()
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis....
STUART ROSE He was a giver. He took all of the good things our mother and father taught. He was the best son a m...
BILL HARMON My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e...
PEPE SERNA My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew.
CHARLES PLANCON![]()
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a...
OLIVIA HUSSEY I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Repub...
EDWARD BROOKE So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple f...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ![]()
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?
...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti...
PAUL ROBESON![]()
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 - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol...
JOSHUA BELL My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG He drove me home, and I remember sitting in my driveway for two hours in the middle of the night tal...
ALLYSON DARNELL I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to ...
STANLEY COHEN My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
ALAN SUGAR I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me...
LAVERNE COX 'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It ...
ESSIE DAVIS 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 When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
GEORGE AKERLOF The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think ...
NELL NEWMAN![]()
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad...
PETE SEEGER![]()
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ...
DAVID SOUL![]()
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ...
CARLOS SLIM I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON![]()
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ...
BONO I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL![]()
My favourite part is when GreenHollyWood says to don't lie and then he lies to my mother... so far i...
DEYTH BANGER My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
ARTHUR ROCK I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all ...
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community the...
REGGIE LEE My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY![]()
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I...
CHANDRA WILSON I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY![]()
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the centu...
BONNIE BEDELIA![]()
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa...
VICTOR MITCHELL When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ...
JEFF KINNEY![]()
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being r...
DAN RATHER![]()
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h...
JO NESBO![]()
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordin...
YAYA DACOSTA Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit...
PETER FONDA Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together,...
CAROLINE CORR![]()
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with...
JILL LEPORE My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the...
TAJ MAHAL
DANNY AIELLO
My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They w... JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I on... MADONNA CICCONE My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to...
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;...
QUENTIN BRYCE
I was a Yankee fan in Brooklyn because my father was a Yankee fan. And my father was required to liv... RUDY GIULIANI
My father, obviously, and my mother were inspirations. My uncle, Frank Harper, he was an absolute me... HILL HARPER
I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Hol... EDDIE VAN HALEN My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especia...
DEVAL PATRICK I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free....
CARLA BLEY
My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di... LINCOLN STEFFENS
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspape... ROBERT HARRIS
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. JOHN JAMES AUDUBON Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outs...
HEATHER WHITESTONE He was a wonderful father. He was always trying to teach her something -- not like school-type lesso...
BETHANY PARKER I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano less...
CASSIE VENTURA
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 mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...
CHUCK CLOSE My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the...
GARRY HYNES
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ...
LEONARD ROSE
My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home - I thi... DAVID BOWIE I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo...
ROBERT H. GRUBBS
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always w... ROBERT CORMIER My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age...
CESAR MILSTEIN I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul...
RICK JAMES
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ... RIDLEY SCOTT
My mother and my father were teachers. My grandmother and my grandfather were teachers. This is some... WARREN BEATTY The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve...
CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG
My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist. T. D. JAKES
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY
But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24. RACHAEL LEIGH COOK My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel...
ERIKA SLEZAK
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY There was a lot of music in our home. Mom played piano in church and gave piano lessons.
ERNIE ISLEY My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ...
CARMEN BUSQUETS
My father, in a way, was a mentor in the way he instilled the basic values and ethics in me. My moth... CHANDA KOCHHAR
I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that t... JOHN C. REILLY My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such a...
GALE GORDON My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there...
ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE
My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model. PAIGE BUTCHER
When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black be... ELODIE YUNG My mother was 13 when I was born. My childhood was pretty frantic, to say the least. My mother left ...
GEORGIA HOLT
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mo... SPIKE MILLIGAN I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. SPIKE MILLIGAN
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic. SPIKE MILLIGAN
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis.... STUART ROSE He was a giver. He took all of the good things our mother and father taught. He was the best son a m...
BILL HARMON My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e...
PEPE SERNA My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew.
CHARLES PLANCON
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Repub...
EDWARD BROOKE So my father grew up in an orphanage in Boston. He was then adopted by an elderly childless couple f...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL I grew up in a broken home, working class. My paternal grandmother raised me and my brother; my fath...
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ
And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it?...
No Face... a pe...
DEYTH BANGER My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti...
PAUL ROBESON
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 - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... JOSHUA BELL My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG He drove me home, and I remember sitting in my driveway for two hours in the middle of the night tal...
ALLYSON DARNELL I was born in Brooklyn in 1922. Both my mother and father were Russian Jewish emigrants who came to ...
STANLEY COHEN My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.
ALAN SUGAR I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me...
LAVERNE COX 'The Custodian' was my first film, and there were so many lessons to learn in that week. It ...
ESSIE DAVIS 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 When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife.
GEORGE AKERLOF The biggest problem was convincing my father that organic food was worth eating. All he could think ...
NELL NEWMAN
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad... PETE SEEGER
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL
My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived ... CARLOS SLIM I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... BONO I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like g...
SIMON COWELL
My favourite part is when GreenHollyWood says to don't lie and then he lies to my mother... so far i... DEYTH BANGER My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.
ARTHUR ROCK I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all ...
PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community the...
REGGIE LEE My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you...
AARON DIEHL When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... SALMAN RUSHDIE Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I...
CHANDRA WILSON I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY
My grandfather had been on the New York City force with his 11 brothers around the turn of the centu... BONNIE BEDELIA
I lived in New York until I was eleven years old, when my mother left my two older sisters and my fa... VICTOR MITCHELL When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ...
JEFF KINNEY
The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being r... DAN RATHER
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... JO NESBO
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordin... YAYA DACOSTA Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit...
PETER FONDA Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together,...
CAROLINE CORR
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... JILL LEPORE My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the...
TAJ MAHAL
No matter what your cultural sophistication or what language you speak, everyone can understand imag... 
I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really ... 
We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. L... 