Augusten Burroughs
Related My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us... CHUCK CLOSE Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had ... SAFFRON ALDRIDGE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES DONALD TRUMP I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between peo... HAMILTON JORDAN I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY JON KABAT-ZINN My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO DOROTHY HAMILL Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tap... MADI DIAZ When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I ki... CLAIRE DENIS LEMON ANDERSEN LYNN JOHNSTON When I left Haiti, I was eight. I went to the Congo where my father was working. The only images tha... RAOUL PECK As I was growing up, you know, I'm a white Jewish American born to Holocaust parents. My father ... EUGENE JARECKI RACHAEL MACFARLANE NORMAN FOSTER I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child... LISA LUTZ My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES BILL DE BLASIO I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven ye... KARLA SOUZA JAMES ELLROY JHUMPA LAHIRI I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father... BOB LIVINGSTON QUENTIN CRISP JOAN LINGARD LANA DEL REY In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really ... DANNY BROWN My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a... MARTIN DONOVAN BONO DAVID LEE BRET EASTON ELLIS BRET EASTON ELLIS I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the f... CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies. DARA HORN SHELDON LEE GLASHOW I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I ha... LEE SMITH I used to think I grew up to be a man because I never really had a dad, and my mother was always at ... (I.V.) EDWARD ANDREW MOLNAR IV After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled... RONNIE MUSGROVE STEVE JOBS It was basically complications from surgery, and that really got scary. At that point, that was my t... BRIAN FERENTZ My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a go... MAX VON SYDOW B. F. SKINNER ROBERT CORMIER I think I said something mean when I was little, and my mother snapped on me. I was just like, '... CRAIG ROBINSON This week was the first anniversary of the death of my father and I had long promised my mother we w... JUERGEN KLINSMANN HANNAH KENT My father was the president of the Hearst Corporation, and my parents were close friends of the Duke... BRIGID BERLIN DAVID MCCULLOUGH The Virgin Suicides score is really good. Lots of Air. And About A Boy , that Hugh Grant movie, has ... HUGH GRANT HOLLY COMBS I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death ... DAVID HYDE PIERCE I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and lovin... SAM SHEPPARD Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together,... CAROLINE CORR I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. BILL GRIFFITH ORLANDO BLOOM I don't see that the level of funding was really a contributing factor in this case. Had this projec... CARL STROCK I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had lef... JEWELL PARKER RHODES PHIL JACKSON I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ... DAVID BLAINE COLIN KAEPERNICK 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 LINDA BLAIR BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where ... ALISON BECHDEL TYLER PERRY KING GEORGE V My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag... WESLEY CLARK ASPEN MATIS ANGELA DUCKWORTH MAYER HAWTHORNE TRACY MORGAN My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My ... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ... IRA LEVIN IRENE ROSENFELD SIDNEY POITIER It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it. RAIN PHOENIX MIKE NICHOLS ZIGGY MARLEY My brother died at age 42 of a heart problem. My mother had had a stroke. I took a look at what was ... MAUREEN KENNEDY But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights,... AMERICAN THEATRE But then my father was transferred to New York, and ... I knew this was it. I saw the bright lights,... AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l... ANNE FOX I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,... ERIC DICKERSON WYNTON MARSALIS BETTY WHITE LYNDON B. JOHNSON My father was a waiter basically, and when I got my first professional job as an actor, I left a job... ALFRED MOLINA STEVEN SPIELBERG JUAN FELIPE HERRERA I was in the big leagues my first year in pro ball - pretty fast. I really don't think I had an ... DREW POMERANZ I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond... PATRICK STEWART JO NESBO I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people... KIMBERLY BRUBAKER BRADLEY JACK BLACK My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who... ARTHUR SHAPIRO
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My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... 
My father was a world-class scientist and my mother was a prolific painter. I could see that my pare... 
I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I... 
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k... 
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... 
I don't think that I could have survived in my family without a naughty sense of humor; yeah, ab... 
The only honourable work my parents knew was blue-collar. But while my father Robert ran a pawnbroke... 
My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the fa... 
My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother'... 
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca... 
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many yea... 
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... 
When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I ... 
I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. ... 
My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical enginee... 
There was a song I heard when I was in Los Angeles by a local group. The song was called ‘Los Ange... 
there was a song i heard when i was in los angeles by a local group. the song was called "los angele... 
While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were ad... 
My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my fat... 
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or no... 
Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always w... 
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would ... 
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the h... 
I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebel... 
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... 
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They ... 
I've had times where one of my roommates was moving out of the house in college, and because we ... 
I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sittin... 
No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in t... 
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... 
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to ... 
On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's inf... 
I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear val... 
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a l... 
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... 
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the neare... 
My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat... 
My first memory in the world is my gym teacher ripping my mother's necklace off her neck and thr... 
I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am r... 
My father is a jazz musician, so I grew up hearing jazz. My parents loved it, but I didn't like ... 
I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in... 
This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoy... 
Even if I'd had a really happy relationship with my father and there was no emotional hiatus for... 
What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was rea... 
When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h... 
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... 
I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just h... 
As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one si... 
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chai... 
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
We love the sight of the brown and ruddy earth; it is the color of life, while a snow-covered plain ... 
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think. 
Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and... 