David Sedaris
Related I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She ju... TATE TAYLOR Last time I spoke to my mom she called me from a pay phone, and we didn't have the best talk. Ev... ERIC WEST I met Drew Barrymore, and she was so cool. She told me, 'I know I just had my baby three weeks a... MADDIE ZIEGLER MAHERSHALA ALI EDMUND WHITE PETER USTINOV The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes lat... JULIAN FELLOWES DEMETRI MARTIN DEMETRI MARTIN It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-e... ELLEN MUTH I did a series in Britain years ago called 'Skins,' and I remember my little sister telling ... BEN LLOYD-HUGHES NICOLA ADAMS DONATELLA VERSACE BUCK OWENS CARRIE FISHER HARRY STYLES When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife... OM PURI COLIN KAEPERNICK My daughter's wanted to be an actress since she was six years old, but I didn't want her to ... RICKY SCHRODER JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Oh, she didn't schlep me. I schlepped her, actually. I was the one who wanted to be an actress. ELLEN MUTH MITCH HEDBERG Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and sai... LATOYA LONDON GORE VIDAL I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, ... CAITRIONA BALFE ANGELINA JOLIE TRINNY WOODALL When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that,... CICELY TYSON I was already in a band, and the teachers called my mum in and said: 'Abbey's so clever, it&... ABBEY CLANCY It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hem... PAULA MCLAIN She was watching TV reports a few weeks ago, sad reports about so many people with nowhere to go, pe... BJ WIE BESS MYERSON Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an except... L'WREN SCOTT LAUREN BACALL She didn't leave any written instructions. She has verbally expressed her wishes to me and other... MICHAEL SCHIAVO My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me... DAVID ORTIZ See . . . um . . . the thing is, I met with Lisa a few days ago. She wanted to apologize for . . . H... STJEPAN ŠEJIć BRITNEY SPEARS JOHN GREEN ROBERT WILSON KARL LAGERFELD My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptis... CURTIS JACKSON I did photograph Angelina Jolie up in Vancouver when she was making 'Life Or Something Like It&#... DOUGLAS KIRKLAND JAY LENO JACQUELINE EMERSON I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all... CHANDRA WILSON I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and ... AULI'I CRAVALHO She found out he was two-timing on her. She told me some time ago she was going to kill him. I wasn'... BERNICE JAMISON I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime y... EDDIE SLOVIK My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want... LINDA LAVIN JUSTIN CHON NATE ROBINSON JOE JAMAIL I had long been resistant to doing a documentary about my mother for personal reasons. And I thought... RORY KENNEDY MIRIAM MARGOLYES STEVEN WRIGHT I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died... LUHANNA CHESLEY GORDON BROWN CHILI DAVIS My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really lik... JAKE JOHNSON I had asked her about it when she was here. She [said], 'Oh, I don't know,' and I said, 'Well, keep ... CHANITA OLDS NATALIE MERCHANT One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could lov... CICELY TYSON ZAC EFRON I once got a letter from a woman who told me she was 90. She said if she were 30 years younger, I wo... DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT I've probably done more than a thousand interviews, and I can't remember what people asked m... ADAM MANSBACH My grandmother Izzy taught me to balance her checkbook when I was 6 years old. She would sign the ch... MARY CALLAHAN ERDOES She was just mesmerized by the whole thing. Then, I think, about her sophomore year, she came to me ... CATHY MARRINAN AL MICHAELS When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I wo... HOWARD IKEMOTO I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they... ELLEN MUTH I have the utmost respect for the attorney general of the United States. She was my friend 30 years ... AARON PODHURST GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ MAEVE BINCHY JADE JAGGER JACK OSBOURNE It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she ... HANK SNOW My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every ... DICK GEPHARDT TERRY PRATCHETT B. B. KING I always dedicate my goals to my mum. I lost her a couple of years ago. She was my biggest supporter... FRANK LAMPARD STEVE ERICKSON SOPHIA AMORUSO And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go... RICHARD DAWSON She is like my sister. I hope she gets back as soon as possible. I'm real worried about her, and I'm... KATIE RIDDELL In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: 'I can't perform anymore!' I didn't know what ... SPENCER KAYDEN ANN NOCENTI DOLLY PARTON She was in love with you,” he says. “And I don’t think she got to tell you, did she?”TESS SHARPE HENRY ROLLINS IAN MCKELLEN For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not a... RACHEL TRUE LES DAWSON ZENDAYA EMILIA FOX ELLIE GOULDING RICHARD WIDMARK GIGI HADID IRINA SHAYK
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her ... 
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... 
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to m... 
I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Li... 
I've often liked a girl, made her laugh, and thought she liked me, and then found out that she d... 
When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said sh... 
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... 
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously throu... 
I overheard people saying, 'She thinks she's so great because she's Debbie Reynolds'... 
Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... ... 
My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is you... 
I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my ... 
My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfwa... 
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courag... 
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own ... 
I'm very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing hea... 
Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredib... 
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... 
I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the e... 
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... 
I had dinner with Marlene Dietrich in the early 1970s. I went to pick her up and she had someone wit... 
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 ye... 
Hillary said today that she knew nothing about her brother's involvement (in Clinton's pardons). I b... 
When I was six years old my friend was auditioning for 'Annie,' and I decided I wanted to au... 
I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. Sh... 
My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, '... 
I didn't know who she was, but I knew she was hungry, so I started handing out $100 bills and ca... 
Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a... 
My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov... 
A woman said to me, 'You're better than your successor.' She then said she's lived u... 
My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go ... 
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... 
A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of th... 
I read an interview with her a couple of years ago... when she talked about what she wanted to do po... 
Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do... 
When my sister Joan arrived, I asked if I could swap her for a rabbit. When I think what a marvellou... 
My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed... 
When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness... 
Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me... 
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... 
Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying... 
There are a lot of parents who've come to me and said about their daughters, 'Oh my God, she... 
When I read Katana's run in 'Birds of Prey,' I was curious about her restraint. She didn... 
That little Miley Cyrus... she's like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she's Hannah... 
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When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad... 
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You s... 
When I was growing up, I wanted to be my half-sister Lucy. She was 14 years older than me and was im... 
I couldn't really relate much to my younger sister, because she was born in 1992, and I was born... 
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make f... 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting. 
If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve. 
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Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were ... 
I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my...