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I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT
I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead.
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I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL
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I was in my 20s when I started writing my goals down, assigning each a date that I would achieve the... LEWIS HOWES
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I was born to hit a baseball. I can hit a baseball. BARRY BONDS I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
JOAN OF ARC
In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail. MAJOR TAYLOR
I was born in August, no July, 1908. SATCHEL PAIGE
I was born in the technology era. MALUMA I was born with an evil face.
BARRY SLOANE I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
DAN FUTTERMAN I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
LINCOLN CHAFEE
By ancestry, I was born to rule. NELSON MANDELA
I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo. CAROLYN KIZER I was born in Homestead, Florida.
CHRISSY METZ
I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. STEVE CASE
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. JESSE JACKSON
I was born into a family of preachers. DAVID SOUL I was raised on NBC television.
DAN HARMON Hey, I was raised in the church.
CHEECH MARIN Leadership is something I was born with.
CARMELO ANTHONY I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI
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I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always be... JEFF BUCKLEY When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.
CURTIS SITTENFELD
I was born alone, I'm gonna die alone. I have my own identity. I'm my own person, and no two... ASAP FERG
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I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scar... JESSICA STROUP
My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid.... XAVIER RUDD
I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This wa... JOHN MALKOVICH I love people. I was born loving people.
BETSY PALMER Am I 53 or 54? I think I'm 54. I was born in 1941. So this year I'll be 55.
CHARLES KEATING
I was born in Dallas, Texas, but I was raised in south Florida. 'Ice Ice Baby' is about that... VANILLA ICE
When I was younger, I believed my inconsistency was due to my youth. I believed that age would teach... MIKE YACONELLI
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I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones. BILL WYMAN I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don...
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In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man. JOE BIDEN
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady. WILSON MIZNER I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON
I was born as a soldier and will die as one. MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
KATE UPTON I was born and bred to be a great flirt.
CYBILL SHEPHERD
I was born with a fierce need for independence. MICHELLE WILLIAMS
I was raised by my father; I was daddy's girl. AMBER HEARD
I was born to travel and write verse. THEOPHILE GAUTIER
As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded. DEBORAH SAMPSON
Beirut is where I was born and raised. REEM ACRA
I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist. J. PAUL GETTY
I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian. STEVEN SEAGAL
I was raised to be a very intelligent housewife. LIZ PHAIR
I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head. CHARLES OLSON I was raised to be some kind of artist.
ELLAR COLTRANE My mom says I was born screaming.
ELLE KING I started writing when I was about thirteen.
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REBECCA FERGUSON
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There w... LYDIA DAVIS People believed what I said was what I believed.
BOB EHRLICH
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart. BEN CARSON
Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow&#... JILL SCOTT
One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things... AASIF MANDVI
When I was a kid, I would fantasize about my own funeral. NOAH BAUMBACH
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I wa... RITA DOVE I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowt...
MIKE WHITE
I was ironing my own clothes when I was 11 years old. My mental strength goes back to those days. CRISTIANO RONALDO
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theate... PHILIPPE PETIT
I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my... ED EMBERLEY I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
LAURA DEKKER I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.
BEN SHAHN Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
LACEY SCHWIMMER
I was born in St. Louis but lived there just for a few minutes in my life. MAYA ANGELOU Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born the...
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I believed I was invincible. LANCE LOUD
Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct. KANGANA RANAUT
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