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“My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a lot of Danish culture at home. My mother is Jewish but we always celebrated Christmas because we loved the traditions of Danish Christmas.”

Home Mother Culture Father Grew Late Grew Up Tradition Danish Copenhagen

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“Don's Mancini father was an advertising executive and I think Don really grew up and all of that stayed in his head. Some of the really great slogans we came up with, over the years, the big advertising buzz-words that we had, Don created those. It's just kind of fun just thinking about what we both love about pop culture and applying it to Chucky film and any others.”

Thinking Years Kind Bigs Film Culture Father Fun Grew Grew Up Pops Advertising Executives Really Great Slogans Pop Culture Buzz

Author:David Kirschner

“The weirdest thing about me is that I like to walk around naked. I grew up walking around naked in my house. My mom was like that, and my sisters. My father worked nights and slept during the day, so we had no one to hide from.”

Night Father House Walks Grew Mom Walking Grew Up My Mom Naked My Sister

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“Music to me is something that I didn't choose; it was a necessity. I grew up with music, my father is a musician. It makes me happy; it makes people happy.”

People Father Grew Grew Up Musician Make Me Happy Making People Happy

Author:Ingrid Michaelson

“There is a double-standard between men and women. My father was a major league baseball player, and I grew up thinking I could have the same attitude on the field that he did. When I did that in real life, people thought I was a total bi-atch.”

“I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I gobbled crystal meth at 12, smoked hashish at 13, and was shooting smack at 17, which explains how I got Hepatitis C, which was the basis of my first book, which was a humor book about dying.”

Years Firsts Book Mother Father Dying Brother Grew Six Grew Up Bases Shooting Crystals Accountants Smack Bronx Hashish Crystal Meth Hepatitis Hepatitis C

Author:Dave Barry

“I grew up in a family that my father was a very, very, a person with so many ideas, so many new visions and dreams. For me to grow up in that family, that also helped me to have a vision to create and open boundaries and things. So I think it's like, it just comes from the family.”

Thinking Persons Ideas Dream Father Grows Vision Growing Up Grew Grew Up Boundaries Visions And Dreams New Vision

Author:Hafez Nazeri

“I went back to a small town in Poland where my dad grew up. It was a very traumatic experience for me as a young man to know that my father's family were killed by Nazis, killed by Hitler. And that left, you know, if not intellectually, at least an emotional part of me which said, God, we have got to do everything we can to end this kind of horrific racism or anti-Semitism. And I have spent much of my life trying to fight that.”

Ifs Knows Men Trying Kind Said Ends Young Fighting Father Left Emotional Grew Dad Grew Up Racism Towns My Dad Young Man Nazi Small Town Poland Anti Semitism Horrific Traumatic Experiences

Author:Bernie Sanders

“My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.”

Men Whole Father Black Voice New York Grew Grew Up Sitting South Pipe Whole Family Stepfathers

Author:James McBride

“I began thinking about why am I constructing almost a shadow father or ghost father in my head into Graham Greene in response to the father who created me? What's going on here? I think a part of my sense is it's every boy's story. When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own individuality, making your own destiny and actually running away from your parents and your home and what you grew up with.”

Thinking Mean Stories Home Running Kids Father Parent Boys Destiny Imagine Grew Grew Up Shadow Response Individuality Ghost Running Away Imagine That Charting

Author:Pico Iyer

“I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit and finally we ended up in Georgia. I grew up playing softball and at the age of nine I decided I was going to be an Olympian.”

Littles Age Father Bits Born Football Grew Little Bit Grew Up Decided Nine Bunch California Chicago Georgia Softball Atlanta Olympian Falcon

Author:Elana Meyers

“I grew up on the sets of Bonanza and most of my (childhood) memory is (on the set of) Little House. I was actually an assistant cameraman on Highway to Heaven. So, I observed my father working for many years. He was a very giving person. I really respected the way he ran his sets. He never treated anyone differently - whether you were the guest star of the show or the grip. Everybody was treated with respect.”

Way Giving Years Littles Persons Shows Father House Heaven Stars Memories Childhood Grew Grew Up Treated Ran Guests Highways Assistants Childhood Memories Cameraman Guest Stars

Author:Michael Landon, Jr.

“I grew up around music. My father was a professional musician. We used to have a trailer house that we travelled in. I've always loved music. Started out loving to sing to the standards and songs of the early 50s, then that interest shifted to rock and roll, Motown, folk.”

Used Song Father House Interest Rocks Grew Grew Up Musician Standards Folks Rock And Roll Trailers Motown

Author:Timothy B. Schmit

“Those rosy memories we all share are actually memories from our favorite TV shows. We've confused our own childhoods with episodes of "Ozzie and Harriet," "Father Knows Best," and "The Brady Bunch." In real life, Ozzie had a very visible mistress for years, Bud and Kitten on "Father Knows Best" grew up to become major druggies, and Mom on "The Brady Bunch" dated her fifteen-year-old fictional son.”

Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye

“My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom's first husband.”

Way Firsts Believe Mother Father Jesus Brother Grew Mom Husband Grew Up Exes Nun Franciscans

Author:John Fugelsang

“My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.”

Different America Father Ability Common Principles Taught Son Grew Diversity Grew Up Backgrounds Immigrants Spokes Different Backgrounds

Author:Ernest Istook

“Being born not long after the war meant that money was tight. I grew up in a rural corner of Lincolnshire and my father worked on local farms. Being one of nine kids meant we didn't have much.”

Long War Kids Father Born Grew Grew Up Corners Nine Locals Farms

Author:Geoff Capes

“Childhood was fairly solitary. I grew up in a very small town called Navan in County Meath. I never knew my father. He left when I was an infant and I was left in the care of my mother and my grandparents.”

Care Mother Father Left Childhood Grew Grew Up Towns Solitary Grandparent Small Town Infant County

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“I've always been willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who has always done things the way I thought they should be done and not, and not having to answer to anybody for it and I've always taken my own chances and I've always followed by instincts according, mother would follow, follow wit, instincts, wisdom, whatever, always followed that.”

Way Should Children Done Mother Father Challenges Chance My Own Answers Taken Willing Grew Grew Up Instinct Wit Only Child

Author:Teddy Pendergrass

“I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.”

Men Father Brother Grew Grew Up My Brother Uncles Intimidated

Author:Dolly Parton

“I grew up without a father, and my mother grew up without a father and her mother grew up without a father. So we have this long heritage of growing up without fathers.”

Long Mother Father Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up Heritage

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“I've been scuffed up a little, but I just hope and pray that I keep my youthful looks for as long as possible. I grew up in a musical family -- my mom sings and my father plays the piano. They were both very active in the church.”

Looks Littles Long Play Father Church Grew Mom Praying Grew Up Musical My Mom Active Piano Hope And Pray

Author:Cyrus Chestnut

“My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.”

Used Father Causes Stuff Grew Grew Up Fishes Stealing

Author:Michael Caine

“I do hang on to things. I was so happy my father saved his army jacket. I grew up wearing that all through high school.”

School Father Grew Grew Up High School Army Saved Jackets

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.”

Country Wanted Father My Own Grew Grew Up South Expected Core

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower.”

Littles Two Hard Hands Jobs Found Father House Hurt My Own College Grew Dad Grew Up My Dad Heavy Dirty Showers Soap Lava Two Jobs Affording Heavy Things

Author:Mike Huckabee

“My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasnt in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.”

Ifs Kind Has Beens Done School Father Careers Grew Grew Up Responsible Physics Backgrounds Forests Unusual Inclination Ecological

Author:Vandana Shiva

“I was introduced to skateboarding through my father. He was a surfer back in the 50's & 60's in Hawaii, where my parents grew up. They later moved to California and I was born. Skateboarding was the thing for surfers here in California in the 60's and my Dad immediately made me a homemade board.”

Made Father Parent Born Grew Dad Grew Up Moved My Dad California Boards Hawaii Surfer Homemade Skateboarding

Author:Christian Hosoi

“I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.”

Knows Littles Father Growth Interest Religious Subjects Grew Birth Grew Up Islam

Author:Salman Rushdie

“I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.”

World Kids Father Hell Trouble Materials Grew Six Grew Up Died Latter Sentiments Twelve Better Place Surviving Good Will Make You Happy Material Things Father Died Tuberculosis Redirection

Author:Bernie Siegel

“My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.”

Soul Father Fans Rocks Listening Grew Grew Up Jazz Massive Music Fans

Author:Kieran Hebden

“I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.”

Age Suffering Father Grew Grew Up Sick Hospitals

Author:T. D. Jakes

“I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.”

Father Church Grew Grew Up Ministers Southern Baptists Southern Baptist

Author:Missi Pyle

“My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.”

People Thinking Knows World Jobs Father Opportunity Saws Grew Grew Up England Towns Yeah University New World Coal Better Life Mining Textiles Coal Mining Bradford

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.”

Thinking Father Century Particular Grew Grew Up Tradition Household

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.”

Children War Home Father Left Grew Grew Up Crosses Wings Lawyer Greek Vietnam 1960s Vietnam War Left Wing

Author:Marianne Williamson

“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.”

“I grew up in a really bad situation; my father left when I was young - you know, an abusive situation. So the minute I put my fingers on a guitar and closed my eyes and just played, it literally was like a drug. It took me into a totally different world, and I just pulled from emotions and experiences that I was going through.”

Knows World Different Eye Young Father Left Emotion Situation Minutes Grew Drug Grew Up Fingers Guitar Different Worlds Abusive Bad Situations

Author:DJ Ashba

“I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.”

Giving Trying Years Remember Father Church Sin Ready Grew Giving Up Grew Up Determine Baptists Going To Church Ready To Give Up

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.”

Writing Culture Father Felt Natural Cities Fans New York Huge Grew Grew Up Musician Hip Hop Hips Hops New York City Hip Hop Music

Author:El-P

“I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.”

Thinking Feels Country Reading Father Literature Brother Grew Grew Up Brothers And Sisters Cousin Stepfathers Chileans

Author:Alejandro Zambra

“I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.”

Stills Play Actors Father Grew Grew Up Theater Producers Lakes Festivals Ohio Cleveland Great Lakes Shakespeare's Plays Theater Family

Author:John Lithgow

“I'm working on a novel about a girl who grows up in the circus and her relationship with her father, who grew up in Hungary when it was under Soviet control and left during the 1956 revolution. It is told from both of their perspectives, and has been a joy (and very frustrating) to research and write. Needless to say, I am very excited about my next project!”

Writing Has Beens Joy Girl Next Father Left Grows Novel Growing Up Revolution Perspective Grew Projects Grew Up Research Excited Soviet Frustrating Circus Hungary

Author:Liza Campbell

“I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.”

Children Important Christian Mother Father Social Born Grew Grew Up Tradition Catholic West Eight Grounded Involvement Mother And Father Catholic Family Belfast

Author:Mairead Corrigan

“I grew up in this Southern Baptist atmosphere, and my mother and father were both, I guess you would say, academics. They were both teachers.”

Mother Father Teacher Grew Grew Up Atmosphere Southern Baptists Mother And Father Southern Baptist

Author:Warren Beatty

“I grew up having great awareness of who I was in regards to racial identity and socio-economic status. This caused me great frustration until I was about 19 years old at Tuskegee University. My brother became a Christian along with my father and they shared the Gospel with me on occasion.”

Years Christian Father Economic Awareness Identity Brother Grew Grew Up Regard University Occasions My Brother Frustration Racial Identity Economic Status

Author:Sho Baraka

“I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I grew up in Parisian intellectual circles.”

Mother Father Born Grew Grew Up Intellectual Philosopher Circles Painter France Journalist Renowned French Philosopher

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.”

Mother Reading Father Grew Grew Up Household Power Of Words

Author:Caroline Kennedy

“We grew up in a praying home [with Alex Kendrick], we saw incredible answers to prayer in our parents' lives, they grew up in praying homes, our father launched a Christian school with nothing, basically he had some people that believed in the project but they had very little resources, and we watched our parents deal with those issues first in prayer, and then when they went out knocking on doors they saw amazing doors answered and resources come in.”

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