Alan Bennett
Related Growing up, I didn't know anybody who didn't have a miner in the family. Both of my grandfat... JENNIFER HAIGH We were deceived. The miners were peaceful. I always thought maybe some miner started it. DAVID ROBERTS My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry. FAYE MARSAY I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the... BERNARD HILL My father was a miner and he worked down a mine. KEVIN KEEGAN I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. TOM JONES SUZANNE COLLINS I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ... ANEURIN BARNARD BARBARA EHRENREICH SUZANNE COLLINS BRIAN BLESSED My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen... IRWIN THOMAS My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mu... TIM MURPHY I think someone in the union has the right to a private vote, and that's why I'm anti-card c... JIM RENACCI Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. 'Yeah, he got... JEANNE MARIE LASKAS You'd rather own gold; never own the miner. KEVIN O'LEARY I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home ... ROSS KEMP I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all ... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI SUZANNE COLLINS MICKEY ROONEY Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was ... TOM JONES My grandfather was a miner. To augment their income, my grandparents also operated a small grocery s... BARBARA RUSSELL DANIEL RADCLIFFE ROBERT CORMIER I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. ... ANN ROMNEY Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it... DOUG DAVIDSON Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital. FOSTER FRIESS I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. PETER COOK Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN Ours was a very progressive Protestant family, but my parents were God-loving rather than God-fearin... JAMES NESBITT MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON STEVEN CHU RUDY GIULIANI RUPERT MURDOCH We want to ensure that every miner has the equipment and training to get out. BOB FRIEND By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN BILL DE BLASIO VINCENT VAN GOGH I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird rec... IAN ANTHONY DALE SAM ROCKWELL I have worked with his mom and his wife, Anna, (who) is related to some of my relatives. Everybody i... ANGIE MCDANIEL JUAN BENET LANA DEL REY CHARLES KURALT JULIE ANDREWS It would inhibit the miner from being able to speak freely. AMY LOUVIERE I was born and raised in the high desert of Nevada in a tiny town called Searchlight. My dad was a h... HARRY REID NAJAT VALLAUD-BELKACEM I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe... LAINIE KAZAN MAX VON ESSEN KIM KARDASHIAN ALLAN GURGANUS PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON I'll tell ya this: I come from an educated family. My father was an attorney representing blue c... JOE PISCOPO WYNTON MARSALIS When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ... HENRIKH MKHITARYAN KEVIN SPACEY I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the be... INARA GEORGE Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mot... TOM SHALES Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Communit... PETER FONDA There were nine children in my father's family and eight in my mother's. My grandparents did... CHERYL LADD My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer... SUE MILLER I had a hole in my voice. I still do. We call it a hole, but it's an area in the voice where it&... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT 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 GLORIA ESTEFAN Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I foun... RASHID JOHNSON SEAMUS HEANEY WARREN BEATTY AARON NEVILLE JUDITH VIORST Jake on the run is awesome. I think he's one of the best at doing that. All I know was Jake was outs... ASHLEY LELIE We were the outliers: my mother was the only Western woman (khawagayya, in Egyptian Arabic) to have ... SHEREEN EL FEKI JO NESBO CRAIG GROESCHEL MAISIE WILLIAMS My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... My mother sat a vigil for the Rosenbergs; my oxymoronic father was a Jewish racist. I had uncles who... ARTHUR SHAPIRO Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA We've come a long, long way. We haven't killed a coal miner in a state of Illinois coal mine for two... MIKE WOODS One possibility is that the administration of oxygen displaced carbon monoxide from his blood and so... DR. DAVID KATZ I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen... JEFF KINNEY I did meet 'The Everly Brothers' once, and we talked for awhile. Then we figured out we were... JAMES BEST I was a goodie-good kid; my parents both worked for the First Methodist Church in Lubbock. My father... BOB LIVINGSTON ERIC CLAPTON My mum left my dad when I was six months old, so I don't know him at all. I had no male figures ... CATHERINE TATE TAMMY DUCKWORTH Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother w... SAM RIVERS I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ... DOUG DAVIDSON My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well... RICHIE HAVENS ANDREW SOLOMON T. BOONE PICKENS MR. T My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up o... NORMAN LLOYD MARY HARRIS JONES I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother... KAJOL I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a... CORINNE BAILEY RAE I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very... CHARLES KIMBROUGH My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when... AGNES SMEDLEY
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