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CLAYTON LEROY We were always involved, ... Rich was active in the ward organization, the 11th ward organization, w...
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MARK CONSUELOS![]()
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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CHANG-RAE LEE June was best friends with Robert Duvall, and I was directing a movie with Duvall and they were cons...
JAMES KEACH My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them ab...
ANITA HILL People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they'r...
BARBARA BILLINGSLEY![]()
'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. The...
DEBBIE REYNOLDS I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brou...
JASMINE GUINNESS![]()
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
JACK ADAMS![]()
Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from r...
DONNA BRAZILE My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I w...
WAYNE WONDER My parents were very relaxed about music.
AGNES OBEL![]()
My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.
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My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not s...
J.K. ROWLING In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was b...
DAN HILL I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me bac...
DAN O'BRIEN There was nothing real about teenagers - nobody talked about them in those days, nobody did anything...
JACKIE COOPER![]()
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.
CAROLINE B. COONEY![]()
Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about...
FRED KOREMATSU![]()
With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Cha...
MATT GROENING![]()
The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about...
STEVE-O There was nothing in the file. What was in her file said that, 'Her services were no longer required...
DEIRDRE FEDKENHEUER![]()
When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet ground...
BAT FOR LASHES If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.
KELLY RIPA Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.
KELLY RIPA I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.
KELLY RIPA I get paid to make out with the hunks!
KELLY RIPA I would love to have another one, but I think we are done because we are so overwhelmed and if I hav...
KELLY RIPA In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and ins...
KELLY RIPA Since we're talking about scandals, I'd like to point out that Regis is not fired, he's just on spec...
KELLY RIPA My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
KELLY RIPA [Since Oprah Winfrey said last month that she would no longer make monthly book picks, new clubs hav...
KELLY RIPA I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.
KELLY RIPA I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.
KELLY RIPA I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.
KELLY RIPA They play this game of blaming the parents. Conversion therapy primarily focuses on supposed dysfunc...
JASON CIANCIOTTO![]()
There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king ...
MEG CABOT [Several Ohio State coaches surrounded him and the speaker phone was engaged when an anxious Pickett...
RYAN PICKETT My parents were worried about their flight. They were to leave on Monday.
JOSIE NEVITT My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional.
MICHAEL BROWN My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
QUESTLOVE![]()
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k...
LEMON ANDERSEN My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
SAM ROBARDS![]()
Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial.
JOHN BRADSHAW I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to Am...
EMILIO AMBASZ This hunt, compared with what my parents went through, was nothing. There are moments that leave the...
DENISE EPSTEIN![]()
Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My par...
HUGH JACKMAN![]()
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not ...
DAVID MORRISSEY![]()
Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where m...
JOHN WATERS![]()
There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD![]()
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co...
LAURA MVULA It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
DAVID W. EARLE![]()
My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE They were as confused as I was, but my parents were thrilled.
JUSTIN HOLEMAN My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner t...
BO SANCHEZ My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relation...
NATALIE ZEA My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was somethin...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and Wh...
RACHEL TUCKER![]()
The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- va...
CLAUDIA GRAY![]()
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of lig...
STEPHENIE MEYER I am refugee now, just like my parents were from Poland,
ANITA TUCKER My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's h...
NANDAN NILEKANI There were statistics about how many hot pockets were used in the film and (there was) something lik...
JENNIFER RUBIN 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 There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
TAYLOR WILSON And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak...
LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD My parents had their problems with alcohol, but they did provide for our family. In talking about my...
DICK BEARDSLEY![]()
When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so incon...
DREW BARRYMORE![]()
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They ...
PHIL JACKSON![]()
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f...
INDIRA GANDHI My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them e...
BARRY HUMPHRIES![]()
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to b...
LEON TROTSKY My parents were apprehensive about me traveling abroad, with terrorism and other problems. But they ...
CHERYL BAKER When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
WARD CLEAVER There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced whe...
TAYLOR HICKS Nothing was like knowing you were the appetizer for a feast of orgy, that you were what whetted the ...
FIERCE DOLAN Kelly was just overpowering out there. She was really on top of her game.
LOU TREDEAU My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they w...
JANE KRAKOWSKI![]()
My own parents were touchy-feely.
BEN STILLER June Carter and Johnny Cash were there when I came around and it meant a lot.
HANK WILLIAMS JR. No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my ...
DR. CHAUVET My view is the previous months were the aberrant month, and June makes more sense.
ROBERT BRUSCA They were doubling up on Wayne and Gerald whenever they had the ball which freed up (Tim) Ivory and ...
DAN DOUGHERTY![]()
During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outside...
ANGELA BOWIE![]()
I was so shattered for my children. Kids are so sensitive about their parents anyway, and my kids al...
LARRY KING My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perki...
DEXTER FLETCHER It was like a day care. Parents were just dropping off kids.
ERNESTO PRIETO My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified b...
ELEANOR CATTON I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sur...
BARBARA BILLINGSLEY![]()
I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real p...
LILLY SINGH![]()
Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leader...
CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
IAN RUSH![]()
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I w...
CAROL BURNETT![]()
There were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens—miserable creatures who scoured the e...
JOHN GREEN
KELLY RIPA They were more worried about other parents thinking they were dysfunctional.
CLAYTON LEROY We were always involved, ... Rich was active in the ward organization, the 11th ward organization, w...
WILLIAM DALEY What I always knew about my parents was that they were in love, and this love had a fizz. It was exc...
MONIQUE ROFFEY Sometimes we're at hotels, and I'll answer the phone. They'll say, 'Mr. Ripa, your b...
MARK CONSUELOS
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed. TAMORA PIERCE Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But the...
BENJAMIN PERCY My parents were worried about the coaching change. It helped a lot that they got someone who was alr...
COY CUSTER
My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and ... CHANG-RAE LEE June was best friends with Robert Duvall, and I was directing a movie with Duvall and they were cons...
JAMES KEACH My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them ab...
ANITA HILL People stopped me on the street and said 'I can't live up to you.' Of course, they'r...
BARBARA BILLINGSLEY
'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. The... DEBBIE REYNOLDS I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brou...
JASMINE GUINNESS
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941. JACK ADAMS
Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from r... DONNA BRAZILE My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I w...
WAYNE WONDER My parents were very relaxed about music.
AGNES OBEL
My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7. DAVID BECKHAM
My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not s... J.K. ROWLING In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was b...
DAN HILL I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me bac...
DAN O'BRIEN There was nothing real about teenagers - nobody talked about them in those days, nobody did anything...
JACKIE COOPER
I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up. CAROLINE B. COONEY
Before the war, my parents were very proud people. They'd always talk about Japan and also about... FRED KOREMATSU
With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Cha... MATT GROENING
The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about... STEVE-O There was nothing in the file. What was in her file said that, 'Her services were no longer required...
DEIRDRE FEDKENHEUER
When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet ground... BAT FOR LASHES If there's cheesecake in the house, I'll have some.
KELLY RIPA Having been a cheerleader, I know all too well what these girls give up to join forces and compete.
KELLY RIPA I don't have the best family history heart-wise, so I really try to keep my heart strong.
KELLY RIPA I get paid to make out with the hunks!
KELLY RIPA I would love to have another one, but I think we are done because we are so overwhelmed and if I hav...
KELLY RIPA In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and ins...
KELLY RIPA Since we're talking about scandals, I'd like to point out that Regis is not fired, he's just on spec...
KELLY RIPA My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
KELLY RIPA [Since Oprah Winfrey said last month that she would no longer make monthly book picks, new clubs hav...
KELLY RIPA I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.
KELLY RIPA I feel like my mind is a little quieter when I exercise.
KELLY RIPA I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.
KELLY RIPA They play this game of blaming the parents. Conversion therapy primarily focuses on supposed dysfunc...
JASON CIANCIOTTO
There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king ... MEG CABOT [Several Ohio State coaches surrounded him and the speaker phone was engaged when an anxious Pickett...
RYAN PICKETT My parents were worried about their flight. They were to leave on Monday.
JOSIE NEVITT My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional.
MICHAEL BROWN My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
QUESTLOVE
I talk to my kids about my mother's energy and how she would have loved them. I talk about how k... LEMON ANDERSEN My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
SAM ROBARDS
Perhaps nothing so accurately characterizes dysfunctional families as denial. JOHN BRADSHAW I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to Am...
EMILIO AMBASZ This hunt, compared with what my parents went through, was nothing. There are moments that leave the...
DENISE EPSTEIN
Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My par... HUGH JACKMAN
When I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, it was like saying I wanted to be an astronaut. Not ... DAVID MORRISSEY
Bergman movies were the most influential. They used to show at Goucher University, which was where m... JOHN WATERS
There was nothing to be done with him and his kind - unless you were prepared to shoot them. CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was co... LAURA MVULA It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
DAVID W. EARLE
My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car. DANIEL RADCLIFFE They were as confused as I was, but my parents were thrilled.
JUSTIN HOLEMAN My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner t...
BO SANCHEZ My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relation...
NATALIE ZEA My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was somethin...
ALEXANDER LUDWIG When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and Wh...
RACHEL TUCKER
The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- va... CLAUDIA GRAY
Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of lig... STEPHENIE MEYER I am refugee now, just like my parents were from Poland,
ANITA TUCKER My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's h...
NANDAN NILEKANI There were statistics about how many hot pockets were used in the film and (there was) something lik...
JENNIFER RUBIN 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 There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
TAYLOR WILSON And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak...
LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD My parents had their problems with alcohol, but they did provide for our family. In talking about my...
DICK BEARDSLEY
When I was a kid, everything was so unplanned, my parents were so erratic, and my world was so incon... DREW BARRYMORE
My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They ... PHIL JACKSON
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f... INDIRA GANDHI My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them e...
BARRY HUMPHRIES
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to b... LEON TROTSKY My parents were apprehensive about me traveling abroad, with terrorism and other problems. But they ...
CHERYL BAKER When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.
WARD CLEAVER There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced whe...
TAYLOR HICKS Nothing was like knowing you were the appetizer for a feast of orgy, that you were what whetted the ...
FIERCE DOLAN Kelly was just overpowering out there. She was really on top of her game.
LOU TREDEAU My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they w...
JANE KRAKOWSKI
My own parents were touchy-feely. BEN STILLER June Carter and Johnny Cash were there when I came around and it meant a lot.
HANK WILLIAMS JR. No one wanted to loan me anything. My numbers were small because I was just starting. I used all my ...
DR. CHAUVET My view is the previous months were the aberrant month, and June makes more sense.
ROBERT BRUSCA They were doubling up on Wayne and Gerald whenever they had the ball which freed up (Tim) Ivory and ...
DAN DOUGHERTY
During my childhood in Cyprus, the British talked about the Cypriots as if the Cypriots were outside... ANGELA BOWIE
I was so shattered for my children. Kids are so sensitive about their parents anyway, and my kids al... LARRY KING My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of 'Les Miserables' in France with Anthony Perki...
DEXTER FLETCHER It was like a day care. Parents were just dropping off kids.
ERNESTO PRIETO My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified b...
ELEANOR CATTON I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sur...
BARBARA BILLINGSLEY
I'm actually not making fun of my real parents. I've taken stereotypical traits of my real p... LILLY SINGH
Her parents, Austin Taylor and Kathleen Taylor, were big deals in Vancouver - they were civic leader... CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
IAN RUSH
My childhood was rough, we were poor and my parents were alcoholics, but nobody was mean. I knew I w... CAROL BURNETT
There were two kinds of adults: There were Peter Van Houtens—miserable creatures who scoured the e... JOHN GREEN
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