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“I came from a communist country where there are no luxury cars.”

“I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.”

Guy Crew Cool Things

Author:Queen Latifah

“I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed.”

Mind Different Growing Up Growing Changed Mind Set Different Minds

Author:Katy Perry

“I came from a different world from other designers because I already had such a strong fan base that was interested in fashion. You have to give the little divas something.”

World Giving Littles Different Strong Fans Fashion Designer Different Worlds

Author:Christian Siriano

“I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.”

Rich Farms Agriculture Dirt Filthy Filthy Rich

Author:Larry Holmes

“I came from a divorced mother and father, obviously mixed race.”

Mother Father Race Divorced Mother And Father Mixed Race

Author:Giancarlo Esposito

“I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.”

Marine

Author:Jim Lehrer

“I came from a family of repairers. The spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesn't get mad. She weaves and repairs it.”

Ifs Mad Spiders Bourgeois Bash

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“I came from a family that sometimes didn't have insurance.”

Sometimes

Author:Mark T Bertolini

“I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.”

Individual Unions Workers Expected Things To Do Employers Joining

Author:Frances O'Grady

“I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.”

People Heaven Heard Rhythm Pennies Rhythm And Blues Crosby

Author:Little Richard

“I came from a family who believed in, in quotes, the Rights of Man, who believed that in order to justify the sort of luxurious life that the majority of us have, related to the whole world, that you had to do something.”

Men World Whole Order Rights Majority Whole World Related Justify Luxurious

Author:Richard Attenborough

“I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-around-the-piano folkies or anything like that, there is that idea of singing and playing with your parents and your family and your cousins.”

Ideas Parent Singing Dancing Folks Backgrounds Piano Our Family Cousin Family Background Your Cousin

Author:Teddy Thompson

“I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.”

Actors Generations Tvs Taboo

Author:Alicia Silverstone

“I came from a generation where women were almost deified, and like Groucho Marx's line, "I wouldn't want to be a member of a club that would have me as a member", I thought, "I wouldn't want to sleep with a woman who would sleep with me!" It took me a long time to work my way through that.”

Way Want Long Romance Lines Sleep Generations Members Long Time Dating Clubs My Way Want To Sleep

Author:John Waters

“I came from a Hindi medium school the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.”

Motivational Wanted School Felt Class Study College Fit Mediums Principal Admission Hindi Classes In School

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.”

World Littles Book Kids Reading House Tree Granted Little Kid Best Of Both Worlds

Author:Tana French

“I came from a huge extended family of musicians.”

Huge Musician Extended Family

Author:Jake Epstein

“I came from a lot of intolerance and prejudice, which aren't necessarily healthy to evolve as a human.”

Humans Healthy Prejudice Evolve Intolerance

Author:Katy Perry

“I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.”

Way Class Middle Artistic Middle Class Mentor Austerity

Author:Graham Swift

“I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.”

Made Mother Father Belief Secure Mother And Father

Author:Chuck D

“I came from a place where everyone was friendly, where even funeral directors told you to have a nice day as you left to bury your grandmother – but I soon learned that everyone in Paris was [rude]. You would go into a bakery and be greeted by some vast slug-like creature with a look that told you you would never be friends. In halting French you would ask for a small loaf of bread. The woman would give you a long, cold stare and then put a dead beaver on the counter. ‘No, no,’ you would say, hands aflutter, ‘not a dead beaver. A loaf of bread.’ The slug-like creature would stare at you in patent disbelief, then turn to the other customers and address them in French at much too high a speed for you to follow, but the drift of which clearly was that this person here, this American tourist, had come in and asked for a dead beaver and she had given him a dead beaver and now he was saying that he didn’t want a dead beaver at all, he wanted a loaf of bread. The other customers would look at you as if you had just tried to fart in their handbags, and you would have no choice but to slink away and console yourself with the thought that in another four days you would be in Brussels and probably able to eat again.”

Paris French People

Author:Bill Bryson

Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe

“I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.”

Joy

Author:Bernie Mac

“I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.”

Needs School Natural Poor Taught Idle Poor Family Multi Tasking

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.”

People School Community Accepting Saws Gay Everyday Lgbt Plus Everyday Life Hostility Youtube

Author:Tyler Oakley

“I came from a race of fishers; trout streams gurgled about the roots of my family tree.”

Race Tree Roots My Family Streams Trout

Author:John Burroughs

Source: Locusts and Wild Honey

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. I put my hand in some cement and felt another hand.”

Real Humor Hands Funny Felt Comedy Tough Neighborhood Cement

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. On my street, the kids take hubcaps - from moving cars.”

Real Humor Kids Funny Moving Streets Car Tough Neighborhood

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Once a guy pulled a knife on me. I knew he wasn't a professional, the knife had butter on it.”

Real Humor Funny Guy Crime Tough Witty Neighborhood Knives

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.”

Real Humor Funny Hurt Tough Window Fingers Neighborhood

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“I came from a real working-class show business family.”

Real Shows Class Working Class Show Business Business Family

Author:Sally Field

“I came from a rural background, and I didn't come in contact with a lot of wealthy people.”

People Backgrounds Contact Wealthy

Author:Josh Turner

“I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids.”

Kids School Class Members Towns Cures Small Town Depeche Mode

Author:Alison Moyet

“I came from a Sorkin-like project in the sense that there was no freedom to change a line, which, in a weird way, is its own freedom because you're living within that structure and know this is what it is. You just adjust. Every project has its own personality.”

Personality

Author:Lauren Graham

“I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.”

Self States Bits Percent Population Appreciation Tea

Author:Brad Carson

“I came from a town of maybe 30,000 people.”

People Towns

Author:Jim Caviezel

“I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didnt want to be either one.”

Want Path Doctors Lawyer Traditional Immigrants

Author:Suheir Hammad

“I came from a very avant-garde documentary kind of film making world. I like cinema verité, documentaries. I liked non-story, non-character tone poems. And that's the film making that I was interested in.”

World Kind Character Stories Film Cinema Tone Documentaries Avant Garde

Author:George Lucas

“I came from a very comfortable, middle-class family living in Highland Park, Illinois.Really growing up in a Jewish community with a fabulous public school.”

School Community Class Growing Up Growing Middle Comfortable Parks Middle Class Fabulous Public School Illinois Middle Class Family Jewish Community

Author:Jill Stein

“I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was an actor. I was sort of - the irony is that I've done as much dramatic work in my career as comedic work and I don't really think of myself as a comedian.”

People Thinking Different Done Shows Actors Careers Backgrounds Comedian Irony Dramatic Comedic Pedigree Daily Show

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.”

Kids Intellectual Neighborhood Cowboy

Author:Robert Frost

“I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could.”

Parent Normal Hollywood Backgrounds Upbringing

Author:Jodi Sweetin

“I came from a very poor family and my main dream in life was to break out of this poverty.”

Dream Poor Poverty Break Break Out Poor Family

Author:Viktor Yanukovych

“I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.”

Growing Up Growing Backgrounds Strict Jamaicans Jamaican Music

Author:Grace Jones

“I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.”

Ifs Want Raised Scary Backgrounds Strict Closets Fundamentalist Skeletons

Author:Wes Craven

“I came from a war-torn country and I was a victim of that racism because within tribes, within political lines, people were fighting. The first thing that I like to fight is racism because I know what it means, how it destroys the fabric of my society, of my wellbeing.”

People Knows Firsts Mean War Country Political Fighting Lines Racism Victim Fabric Tribes Torn Wellbeing

Author:Pearl Tan

“I came from a warm Jewish family.”

Warm Jewish Family

Author:Michael Marmot

“I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.”

Made Share Charity Various Wealthy Estates

Author:Abbe Pierre

“I came from a white middle class neighborhood. Was I expected to go back there and teach the woman next door about Renaissance sonnets? The embarrassing truth of the matter was that I was being chosen because Yale University had some peculiar idea about what my skin color or ethnicity signified.”

“I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.”

Poverty Nowhere To Go Nowhere To Go But Up

Author:Kirk Douglas

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