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I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn'... CAROLINA HERRERA
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I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it was... GERALDINE BROOKS My brother and my father both got laid off around the same that I was starting to do this movie '...
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Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't ... LYNN JOHNSTON
My father had slowed down playing a little... I was 'round 10 or 12 years old. Every time he put... DAVID EDWARDS I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never ki...
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My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't r... LORDE From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always ...
GAVIN O'CONNOR
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte... SAM HOUSTON
At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only s... MAYA ANGELOU My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid - and I didn't read magazines or watc... CAMERON RUSSELL
Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My m... MIREILLE GUILIANO My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are...
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I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d... ROBERT DAVID HALL
Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen... JENNI RIVERA
Most parents were, like, Little League coaches and all that. My dad was a wrestling fan. Instead of ... JOHN CENA My parents strapped a pair of plastic skis on my boots when I was two years old and sent me down our...
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The worst was relizing that I’d lost him for nothing because he’d been rght about all of it-- va... CLAUDIA GRAY
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't... BOB DYLAN I was taught by my father. He was head of the primary school so I went to his school until I was 11 ...
AMANDA BURTON
When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinn... NATHAN MYHRVOLD The first time I ever heard the blues, my parents had a stack of records that they weren't using...
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