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Related I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother h... CHANTAL AKERMAN DONNA KARAN I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an ... FRIDA GIANNINI ROBERTO BENIGNI The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG Take my family - I have two brothers, his brother, a son and daughter, our house and my mother and o... JEANNETTE ALFONSO I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very... CHARLES KIMBROUGH RUPERT MURDOCH My father was a Jewish immigrant who settled in Argentina and was left to his own devices at the age... CESAR MILSTEIN I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated... NATALIA VODIANOVA SHIV NADAR ELIZABETH KENNY SIMON VAN DER MEER ROBERTO BENIGNI DONALD TRUMP I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck.... JAMES CAAN B. F. SKINNER SALMAN RUSHDIE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When my mother and father fell in love, my mother's family would never accept it. EUZHAN PALCY My colleague told a family that their mother was very sick, and the son had a heart attack in her of... DAVID MULLER My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep ... SHEENA EASTON PETE SEEGER When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I ki... CLAIRE DENIS I think that people assumed I was white because of my last name. My father is Caucasian, my mother i... GEORGE ZIMMERMAN T. D. JAKES JOAN RIVERS My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ... CARMEN BUSQUETS 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 ED KOCH PAIGE BUTCHER I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family w... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI FRANCESCA ANNIS My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. ALAN SUGAR DAVID BOWIE PAULA DANZIGER My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. ZOE WANAMAKER I was a very difficult child, and the time I spent reading was about the only peace I gave my mother... KATE BECKINSALE My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirel... ERIKA SLEZAK I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate abo... KATE BECKINSALE JUDITH VIORST DAVID DINKINS There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother... JOAN CHEN SIDNEY POITIER KARAN JOHAR I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer. BILL GRIFFITH JOHN HUME My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She ... LAURENCE YEP By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN JOAN LINGARD AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS SEAMUS HEANEY My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairnes... MIKE HONDA I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting ... ASHLEY JOHNSON OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN NAOMI CAMPBELL FAY WRAY JAMES E. FAUST Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my care... LARENZ TATE The family of my mother had a lot of money; the family of my father, nothing. CHARO JAMES CAMERON I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father. CARLISLE FLOYD My secret skill is baking bread. My mother was a farmer's daughter and still made bread every da... RICHARD FLANAGAN When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ... FRANK GEHRY I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif... VANESSA KERRY My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my... EDDIE MATHEWS ISIDOR ISAAC RABI They always say that the daughter will grow up to look like their mother. So, I asked my girlfriend ... ANTHONY T.HINCKS My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a le... SHEREEN EL FEKI DAVID JOHANSEN My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a... JORGE M. PEREZ I was extremely upset about my daughter having testicles _ any mother or daddy would be. And my husb... FRANCES TERRY If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle clas... DAVE VAN RONK My father was a chemist on the Yale faculty, my mother a housewife. GEORGE AKERLOF CHUCK PALAHNIUK My parenting style is probably like that of my parents, because you do how you learn. My mother was ... KYM WHITLEY My father, I think he played percussion in high school. My mother played piano when she was very you... AARON DIEHL My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew. CHARLES PLANCON Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every ... KEITH O'BRIEN It was surprising for a picture called Elf. It was actually edgy. I think the nice thing about the f... JAMES CAAN My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a lau... GARRY MARSHALL ALBERT BROOKS CHRISTY TURLINGTON BRUNO MARS RITA DOVE ALICE WALKER My father and my mother separated when I was two. CARLA GUGINO My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ... DAGOBERTO GILB ALEXIS STEWART DONALD JOHANSON WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART YAYA DACOSTA My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, '... MONTE IRVIN JENNA MORASCA RIDLEY SCOTT WARREN BEATTY My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the ti... PAUL ROBESON ELLIOTT ABRAMS ICE T
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ALAN JOHNSTON I thought that our ability to keep our composure was a big factor, especially in the fourth quarter. ALAN JOHNSTON We played tremendous team basketball. I knew that we were going to be able to get the ball inside ag... ALAN JOHNSTON I thought we had some costly errors at the wrong time, but the bottom line is I thought our kids cam... ALAN JOHNSTON That was the most difficult game we played this season. ALAN JOHNSTON I thought their defense was very disruptive. That zone does a good job of taking you out of what you... AARON JOHNSTON It feels good and bad. It's nice to get three wins in a row, but I also felt like in some of the are... AARON JOHNSTON Defensively I thought we played pretty well. We're going to need to play much better as the schedule... AARON JOHNSTON I thought from beginning to end, that was a very complete game. We've had complete games in terms of... AARON JOHNSTON When Lorenz plays well, their team is difficult to beat. 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I'm very close to my mother, but not a single other person in my family. 
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