My mum is really fair and has blonde hair, and my dad is not dark, either.
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BEN BARNES Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair.
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JASON STATHAM People do think you're more intelligent if you have dark hair. But my husband definitely prefers...
MALIN AKERMAN Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personalit...
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FLEUR EAST My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.
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VILLE VALO My dad's an ex-policeman, and my mum is a sales representative, and they haven't got the act...
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KING KRULE My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education.
BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be r...
CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN And from that luckless hour my tyrant fair
Has led and turned me by a single hair.
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OLIVIA THIRLBY My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I w...
JERRY HALL My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it&...
BLAKE LIVELY My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're N...
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KARYN PARSONS My hair has been this chapter thing for me. In 'Jem,' I have blue hair. 'Insidious,'...
HAYLEY KIYOKO I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be...
JENNIFER ELLISON My mum is very political - left wing - and my dad was in the advertising business. They were both fr...
JOAN CUSACK I'm lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing - they had me dye m...
HALEY LU RICHARDSON I like hair each and every way. I like to give scalp massages - to pull and tug on it. But my favori...
TREY SONGZ I'm such a blonde. It just doesn't make sense for me to have dark hair.
JESSICA SIMPSON Music is my life.
ROBERT ILER Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's foo...
BINDI IRWIN I'm from a salt-of-the-earth, working-class, northern background. My dad's a steelworker and...
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DANIELLE DE NIESE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES A lot of my family are redheads, but I'm a dark blonde.
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PEDRO ALMODOVAR My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you?...
FLEUR EAST Blonde is dumb comedy, red hair is smart, sexy comedy.
LISA KUDROW My dad was my wake-up call and he said, 'Good morning, champion,' ... He is really happy. My mom cal...
MARIA SHARAPOVA Music is my life. It is sacred.
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GARY F EVANS... When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help...
CHARLIE PUTH During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a tou...
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TIM VINE My dad was a good man, he had standards, principles, and a code of honor.I always wanted to say the ...
GARY F EVANS... My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a p...
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LAURA HADDOCK My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a di...
DANNY BOYLE I turned my hair dark and have received much better parts ever since.
JOAN BENNETT I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important.
JAIME KING My dad's a professor of medicine; my mum was a nurse. My little sister is going into healthcare....
WILL POULTER I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.
ABBIE CORNISH I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they ...
BONNIE TYLER I've colored my hair so many times, and nobody tells you the damage it's going to do! I went...
MICHELLE PHAN But I think he might be too old for me at 27. I don't think my mum and dad would have that.
JAMES BLUNT My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy.
JOE LANDO When I showed my parents the proposed pictures, my mum laughed and said I had looked sexier in other...
AMBER CHIA My dad is really into wrestling. My dad wrestled in the past and always talked about it and we tried...
DENNY LINTON I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
SID VICIOUS Nothing in the world is as fair as your stomach , when it's enough , it's enough (Quoted from my dad...
LESTER LIM JUN KAI My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what ...
ZOSIA MAMET My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE Liberated from suffering and searchI have tied myself to the skirt of God.If I fly, I look at the su...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI Mum and dad still live up there and everyone's OK, although (the cyclone) has affected people I know...
BILLY SLATER My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't sa...
ELLA EYRE I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I le...
ABBEY CLANCY My dad was an actor and a writer; my mum was a drama teacher. My grandma was an actress. My aunt is ...
CHARLIE ROWE If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.
SIA It is fair to say he has had a tremendous positive impact on my life and my business.
DOUGLAS ABRAMS My hair was so much a part of my personality and all my photo shoots. I hid behind my hair. And then...
PAMELA ANDERSON Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
LYKKE LI Sometimes my mum is very disapproving of my comedy.
REBEL WILSON My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and...
BROOKE BURNS My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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KARL LAGERFELD Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.
STEVE BURNS Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
LENNY KRAVITZ We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, m...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO My dad died in 1980, and I found out afterwards from mum that my piano lessons, which cost £2 ...
RICK WAKEMAN I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long d...
KIRSTEN DUNST My dad cut my hair once - I wanted a bob and he gave me a bowl cut. That was a tough few years.
ALEXA CHUNG My dad has and my brother [have]. My brother's a caddy out there.
JASON CHILDERS For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat abo...
EDEN SHER My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very un...
RACHEL PLATTEN I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.
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AMY WINEHOUSE Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.
AMY GRANT My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
AMY SEDARIS I never really take shortcuts. I was always one of those people who, instead of cutting across someo...
AMY SEDARIS You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use y...
AMY SEDARIS I'm very domestic; I love cleaning. I love cooking. I like waiting on people. I just like to mak...
AMY SEDARIS I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ...
AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS