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“I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.”

Knows World Culture Amount Critical Places In The World Scots

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy.”

Real Actors House Comedy Drama Tragedy Real Life Comic Surprising Expressive Drama Life

Author:John Turturro

“I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.”

Has Beens Mother Father Lines Four Married My Family Intention Eight Divorce Ceremony Divorced Mother And Father

Author:Joshua Ferris

“I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.”

Thinking Intellectual East Coast East Coast

Author:Alexandra Wentworth

“I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.”

War Left Wings Empires Anti War Socialist Left Wing

Author:Marianne Faithfull

“I come from a very naked family, so that's just something that's not a big deal for me. I don't think it means anything other than that.”

Thinking Mean Bigs Deals Naked Big Deal

Author:Gaby Hoffmann

“I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.”

Accepting

Author:Katy Perry

“I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.”

Men Father Strong Poor Missing Poor Family

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.”

Knows Used Religious Praying Backgrounds Quarrels Auschwitz

Author:Elie Wiesel

“I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.”

Ifs Hard Hard Work Backgrounds Rough

Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

“I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I'm from a temperate climate.”

People Ifs Trying Mean Has Beens Ideas Creativity Ambition Climate Islands Negativity Stimulus Jam Austin

Author:Robert Plant

“I come from a very small rural village in northern Germany, and being an actor never even seemed like a possibility. I thought you would have to live in a big city, or be discovered somewhere, or be born into an artistic family, which I certainly wasn't.”

Bigs Actors Born Cities Possibility Artistic Germany Village Big Cities

Author:Diane Kruger

“I come from a very small, poor town just outside of the Chicago area and I know what it's like to dream and accomplish some of your goals, but I would never want to do a show where I am preaching to anyone because I do not like being preached at. I want to learn right along with my audience and every show will be a collaborative effort. I am so thankful to Debra Lee and everyone at the BET Network for providing me with this unique opportunity and platform.”

Knows Want Shows Dream Opportunity Goal Poor Effort Audience Unique Areas Towns Accomplish Chicago Platforms Providing Preaching Unique Opportunities Collaborative Effort

Author:Keke Palmer

“I come from a very sporty background because my mom is a gymnastics teacher. So growing up I was never sitting watching TV in the afternoons. I always played ball outside in the backyard.”

Growing Up Teacher Growing Tvs Mom Sitting Balls My Mom Backgrounds Afternoon Gymnastics Backyards Watching Tv

Author:Gal Gadot

“I come from a very warm island, where colors are very important, very vibrant, and obviously the color has been an influence on my work.”

Has Beens Important Influence Color Warm Islands

Author:Oscar de la Renta

“I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.”

Years Long Has Beens Given Imagination Race Records Please Promise Determined Ancestor Vivid Prospects I Am Determined Vivid Imagination

Author:Nikola Tesla

“I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.”

People Has Beens Past Class My Family Backgrounds Working Class Upstairs Posh

Author:Michelle Dockery

“I come from a very, very Catholic family. We used to pray the rosary every day after dinner.”

Used Praying Catholic Dinner Rosary Catholic Family

Author:Juanes

“I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with a feeling of abandonment and shame.”

Way Made Hard Feelings Deals Shame Violent Backgrounds Abandonment Realised

Author:Mickey Rourke

“I come from a visual background, and I grew up around a lot of hippies and artists. My mom and my brother and I moved around a lot. We basically moved every couple of years, and I went to a lot of different schools. But creativity, for us, was always a way of life. It was never a job. Being an artist was a passion and a way of life.”

Way Years Different School Jobs Artist Passion Creativity Brother Grew Mom Couple Grew Up Moved My Mom Backgrounds My Brother Visuals Hippie Being An Artist

Author:Jared Leto

“I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.”

Used Grew Photography Grew Up Cameras Backgrounds Teenager Visuals Department Lenses Bros Warner Bros

Author:Colin Hanks

“I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.”

Mother Father Class Wonderful Middle Western Middle Class Salesman Pianist Wonderful Family

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.”

Class New York Backgrounds Queens Working Class

Author:Amy Ryan

“I come from a working-class family in Pittsburgh, whereas 'Mike & Molly' deals with the working class in Chicago. I swear a little, but I pretty much talk the same. It's not like when you see someone like Tim Allen and he's a lot bluer onstage.”

Littles Deals Class Chicago Swear Working Class Mike Pittsburgh

Author:Billy Gardell

“I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.”

World Matter Results Titles Accomplishment Seats Accountability Rhetoric

Author:Carly Fiorina

“I come from a world where the word 'trauma' doesn't exist, because we are too poor. I didn't have an easy life compared to the average European. But compared to the average African, it wasn't all that bad.”

World Easy Poor Average Trauma Easy Life

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.”

World Done Film

Author:Abel Ferrara

“I come from a worried people. These people worry and are overly cautious. The worried people are very suggestive and read the side effects on every medication to make sure they experience all of them, even the side effects experienced by the placebo people. If it only happens in males, my female people will figure out a way to have that side effect, too. My people worry out of love, though.”

Humor Confidence Self Acceptance Originality Essays Female Empowerment

Author:Shelley Brown

Source: Weird Girl Adventures from A to Z

“I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.”

Knows Art Night Names Grief Darkness Divine Strange Flower Pure Mountain Rain Deception Flames Rays Magnificent Herbs

Author:Jose Marti

Source: Selected Writings

“I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.”

Way Fighting Actors Father My Own Acting Identity My Way

Author:Vincent Cassel

“I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.”

Knows Trying Years Persons Wife Buddhism Mets My Wife Backgrounds Compassionate Alcoholics Practise

Author:Patrick Duffy

“I come from an army background, and everyone at my home has a habit of getting up early. I continue this habit even today.”

Home Today Habit Army Backgrounds Up Early

Author:Esha Gupta

“I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.”

Art Artist Sides Levels Masters Hero Degrees Adults Musical Backgrounds Artistic My Hero Art History Dork

Author:Black Francis

“I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.”

Feels Art Stills School Challenges Havens Backgrounds Exploration Frightening Art School Challenging Myself

Author:PJ Harvey

“I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, dozens of cousins. I have many close friends. I have received so much love in Lahore that the city always pulls me.”

Cities Enormous Dozen Uncles Pakistan Cousin Aunt Close Friends Much Love Aunts And Uncles Close Family Lahore

Author:Mohsin Hamid

“I come from an environment where the men actually say, "Is it OK if I take off my jacket?" in a meeting. Everyone wears suits; it is a very dressed-up world. Even if I wear jeans, I still wear a blazer and jewelry. I think there is something nice about coming to work and dressing nicely.”

Ifs Thinking Men World Stills Environment Nice He Man Meetings Suits Jeans Dressings Jackets Jewelry Dressed Up Blazers

Author:Aerin Lauder

“I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real.”

Real Enough Figures Cameras Holes Eras Capture Airplane Motorcycle Bolts Canyons

Author:John Dykstra

“I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.”

World Happens Actors Speak Opinion Who You Are Likes Eras Define Yourself

Author:Idris Elba

“I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.”

Film Class Middle Television Industry India Everyday Cinema Middle Class Halls Film Industry Middle Class Family

Author:Lavrenti Lopes

“I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.”

Culture Girl Generations Couple Servant Immigrants

Author:Caitlin Flanagan

“I come from an improvisational background so I'm used to playing. I'm used to not knowing what exactly is going to come out.”

Used Knowing Backgrounds Not Knowing Exactly Is

Author:Naomi Grossman

“I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me.”

Mother Father White Issues Color Skins African American Nigeria Skin Color

Author:Annie Ilonzeh

“I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.”

Hell Catholic Dna Catholic Family Hell Raising

Author:Brian Dennehy

“I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.”

Use Doors Expression Conversation Argument Mark Profound Italian Punctuation Punctuation Marks Italian Family Slamming Doors

Author:Mario Batali

“I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.”

Together Dad Ordinary My Dad Makers Racing Roof Carpenter

Author:Sebastian Vettel

“I come from an overly confident place. But I'm overconfident because of feelings of inferiority.”

Feelings Inferiority Overconfident

Author:Bette Midler

“I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.”

Bigs Backgrounds Nervous Boxing Shy Filmmaking Athletics Rigor

Author:Jon Bernthal

“I come from both sides of the spectrum: I grew up listening to hip-hop and R&B then learned how to make a track by tapping a bowl with a fork. I'm trying to compress all of my experiences all of the time.”

Trying Sides Listening Grew Grew Up Track Hip Hop Hips Hops Bowls Both Sides Spectrum Forks Tapping

Author:Lotic

“I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.”

Grew Grew Up Connecticut

Author:John Ratzenberger

“I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from around the world. I was around such brilliant young minds and incredible artists with incredible teachers.”

World Mind Hands Kids Young Artist Teacher College Training Theater Incredibles Brilliant Bunch Around The World Young Minds

Author:Joe Manganiello

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