Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mum told him to shut up. But she was smiling when she said it. Lucy liked that.
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I told her I was playing in the All-Star game and she said 'why?... JIMMY ROY I love women, but I feel like you can't trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Li... DEMETRI MARTIN I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's goin... ACE FREHLEY I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care... NICOLE SCHERZINGER All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. Whe... ED O'NEILL She'd had a similar accident but survived. She told me that as she was crashing she felt no fear or ... CAROL BARNES The Secret Garden was what Mary called it when she was thinking of it. She liked the name, and she l... FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around. GARY HUME I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on... MEG WHITE My mom beat us until she started breaking clothes hangers. Wooden clothes hangers! Once we started l... DOUG HARVEY Her name...was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that s... DAN CHAON She started backing up and then she said, 'The heck with this. I think I'll just kill you,' GEORGE CONNOR She didn't tell Dad about it until she had done it. She felt it was her duty, and she did it. JAMES RICE He found he was holding his breath. A part of him wished she had a man. That she wouldn't look up, s... CHRISTINE FEEHAN She started yelling and screaming. She didn't want to go. My dad returned her to custody up here (in... HEATHER BISHOP I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had... HAILEE STEINFELD She was very good as a freshman, and then the latter part of her career her golf took a turn for the... DAN BROOKS I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influ... DAVID ALMOND I had asked her about it when she was here. She [said], 'Oh, I don't know,' and I said, 'Well, keep ... CHANITA OLDS She very clearly said she was leaving. She was smiling. She was ready to go, CHANDRA LEVY My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a p... FINN JONES She saw in his eyes that he knew she was thinking about him. She liked the fact that he knew it, and... NICHOLAS SPARKS Mom was the planner. She said, 'We're going to do this, we're going to do that,' and my dad would go... BRIDGET IDTENSOHN I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for... GARY NUMAN I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How do... CUSH JUMBO I started to express my dissatisfaction. They knew I worked as a paramedic. They told me to shut up,... ROBERT PERRY I noticed that when my daughter was born, my son really, really liked her. But then as she started g... GENE LUEN YANG I told Dad about yesterday...I told him how I made all those mistakes. 'But you kept on playing... LINDA URBAN She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric ... RACHEL TUCKER Women liked Strike—she had come to realize that over the months they had worked together. She had ... ROBERT GALBRAITH I got him in the office and got her on the speaker phone. I was at my wit's end with him. I was read... DAVE MAGARITY She was kind of crying, too, because she liked happy endings. Then she realized it wasn't an ending ... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encourage... DANNII MINOGUE I'm probably the most introverted extrovert you'll ever meet. Up until I got this show I was... NIKKI COX It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family,'... JASON BATEMAN It wasn't until I was 14 and watched the 1976 Olympic games on television that I really started ... JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE My dad started racing when I was about four. My mom thought it was interesting, so she started to tr... BRANDON DAVIS When we got there to the hospital, there was a lot of action, people going in and out of the room. T... KANDY MENDOCK I inherited my weight problem from my mum. She was always on diets. If there was a box of chocolates... LESLEY NICOL My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious... TONY BLAIR I remember I was unsure about doing 'Shameless.' I'd never acted in anything so commerci... ANNE-MARIE DUFF She tried to think of the right thing to say - something that would make him leave her alone. If she... CAROLINE HANSON I heard her shout that she was good for 16. I told Simone I was going to hold her to it. She said, '... BETH YOUNG When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch unti... DAISY FUENTES But she loved her dad; she was a daddy's girl. She said her father had changed the life insurance an... MALINDA GONZALES When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said sh... NICOLA ADAMS There would be a moment of silence when she was clearly thinking about what was being said and then ... LEONARD LEO It started with modeling. Ever since she was a baby, she would always get stopped. She was a beautif... MICHELLE TUCKER Up until Dec. 17, when she really started getting sick, she was still driving and doing her own hous... PAT BURSTEIN The mother obviously began to cry when she was told. She had walked a number of kilometres, but the ... AILEEN CARROLL I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum ... LAURA HADDOCK You're a rule person," he said. "My sister was a cheater. It sort of became necessary." "S... SARAH DESSEN That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and he... BRUCE OLDFIELD In the book, hummin bins made castles, and towers up to the sky. They tamed the animals and took car... KATHERINE HANNIGAN When “Here Comes the Sun” started, what happened? No, the sun didn’t come out, but Mom opened ... MARIA SEMPLE I liked the look in Carolyn's eyes when she started the second half. She walked out on the court, hi... JAN AZAR As the new year began, [Patricia Highsmith] felt completely paralysed, incapable of reading or picki... ANDREW WILSON She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly wha... FREDRIK BACKMAN I said don't hang up..whatever you do, don't hang up. And I told him my predicament. I said I'm goin... STANLEY BAUCH She was in a terrible marriage and she couldn't talk to anyone. He used to hit her, and in the begin... NICHOLAS SPARKS Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u... KARIN SLAUGHTER I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation... SINEAD O'CONNOR All of the heartache, the anger, the fear that this was as good as it was ever going to get, was wor... APRILYNNE PIKE I had a date with a girl I called 'the parrot.' All she did was repeat everything I said. Sh... JUSTIN CHON When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels... JON HEDER I think it's just the year of experience under her belt. Last year, she was trying it out to see if ... KATRINA VAN TASSEL Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't u... KARIN SLAUGHTER My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six mon... DAVID SEDARIS When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them on... COLIN ANGLE I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the l... KYRSTEN SINEMA When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness... JACK OSBOURNE A friend of mine told a story about a date with a guy she was really excited about: He stood her up.... GREG BEHRENDT My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.... ALBERT BROOKS Erika told me earlier that she was going to play big. She said 'Coach, I'm going to play big for her... LYMAN FOSTER My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose c... LAURA TROTT I buried a nickel under the porch when I was 8, she said, but one day my grandma died & they sol... BRIAN ANDREAS In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived wit... FLOYD SKLOOT She was one resident, among many, that was told by their insurance company that she didn't need floo... MAGGIE WINZ When I started to learn my role, she very much emphasized that the most important part of performing... BRENDAN KING I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be... ACE FREHLEY She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. HOLLY BLACK My mum was a dancer when she was a kid. Then my parents met and eventually had an art gallery; my da... ARI MILLEN It was then that she cut him off in midsentence and said that it was over. She said it with a certai... NEAL STEPHENSON When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ... FRANCES MAYES A Macmillan nurse looked after mum when she was dying and she was fantastic. This party was for mum ... DONNA WHITE Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream... ... HARRY STYLES What made more sense was that the bargain she was bound to was to go on living as she had been doing... ALICE MUNRO My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'... JOSH HARTNETT I knew nothing about my mum's family. Her parents were dead by the time she was 14. She was brou... JASMINE GUINNESS My dad once told me life would get complicated when I grew up. I’m guessing this isn’t what he m... SUSAN EE I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON
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CARROLL O'CONNOR My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter. CARROLL O'CONNOR The wages of pedantry is pain. CARROLL O'CONNOR I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishin... CARROLL O'CONNOR One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I ... CARROLL O'CONNOR Not all celebrities are dunces. CARROLL O'CONNOR I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago em... CARROLL O'CONNOR Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail. CARROLL O'CONNOR Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undiscipline... CARROLL O'CONNOR All in the Family was intellectual; it was art. CARROLL O'CONNOR Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways ... CARROLL O'CONNOR It was a lack of system that made the '30s Depression as inevitable as all others previously suf... CARROLL O'CONNOR In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering r... CARROLL O'CONNOR I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining. ERIN O'CONNOR I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. M... ERIN O'CONNOR I am rubbish at the gym. I prefer to exercise by moving around - it doesn't matter whether I am ... ERIN O'CONNOR It's not about hiding your imperfections on a shoot; it's about embracing them and being una... ERIN O'CONNOR I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years. ERIN O'CONNOR I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze ... ERIN O'CONNOR When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt ... ERIN O'CONNOR I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I... ERIN O'CONNOR I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh ca... ERIN O'CONNOR Caution is the key to safe cycling. I'm aware that cars are bigger than me, but I feel quite saf... ERIN O'CONNOR I'm like a tourist when I'm in London. ERIN O'CONNOR In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays,... ERIN O'CONNOR Cycling is a great way to learn about your city. I love being outdoors, especially in good weather, ... ERIN O'CONNOR A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respon... ERIN O'CONNOR I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portab... ERIN O'CONNOR It makes me cross when I hear people say, 'It's so last season.' I always say, 'It... ERIN O'CONNOR I've been on both sides: the victim and the villain. I was the victimised model, and everything ... ERIN O'CONNOR Winter is my favourite season. ERIN O'CONNOR My style has been nurtured over time. It's more about knowing what doesn't suit you. I love ... ERIN O'CONNOR My perfect bag would be practical but also have the stylish element to it; it would be bold and colo... ERIN O'CONNOR I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to d... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Life is full of surprises but you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Start there. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life's unpredictable path and length, should be enough to make you want to take a chance. JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns ... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR What if one thing resonates with everybody, but it's not the same for anybody? MARK ALLEN O'CONNOR Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire t... REBECCA K. O'CONNOR