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“I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.”

Thinking World Mother Girl This World Mom Notion My Mom Thanks Attractive Devoted Gorgeous Attractive Girl

Author:Amy Schumer

“I was helping my mom grind meat at our butcher shop, and it just hypnotized me. I don't remember sticking my hand in, but it sheared off the three middle fingers and left me with a pinkie and a thumb.”

Helping Hands Remember Three Left Middle Mom Fingers My Mom Meat Shops Thumbs Grind Butchers Middle Finger

Author:Jon Tester

“My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.”

Men Found Lost Differences Mom Track My Mom Zoos Camels Lecturing

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Jesus Christ - He means the world to me. So many different situations I've been through, through my childhood and now my adulthood; I lost my brother at a young age. He got hit by a car right in front of me. I had to be strong for my mom.”

World Mean Different Age Young Jesus Lost Strong Christ Situation Childhood Car Fronts Brother Mom Jesus Christ My Mom My Brother Adulthood Young Age Mean The World To Me

Author:Adrian Peterson

“I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly influence both at home and church. There was no alcohol and no smoking at our house. That was the way a Bowden was supposed to live. My dad always told me to represent the Bowden name in a respectful manner.”

Way Home House Names Church Influence Mom Dad Raised My Dad My Mom Alcohol Smoking Godly Respectful Going To Church No Smoking Mom Dad

Author:Bobby Bowden

“I remember playing in a tournament when at home we didn't have light, because my mom spent her last money on my sneakers.”

Home Light Lasts Remember Mom Basketball My Mom Nba Tournaments Sneakers

Author:Allen Iverson

“My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.”

Thinking Firsts Two Comedy Mom Dad My Family My Dad Very Good My Mom Comedian Aggressive Passive Mixtures Passive Aggressive

Author:Amy Schumer

“I don't think about my mom when I'm onstage. I just don't really think about my kids when I'm working, and when we press stop and I walk outside, they're the first things I think about.”

Thinking Firsts Kids Walks Mom Presses My Mom

Author:Jack White

“As a kid, I was a huge fan of movies and acting. My mom was in the sort of community theater, and I always hung around down there, and I was a massive fan of everything I'm kind of involved in now. But fairly ordinary and cheeky.”

Kind Kids Community Acting Fans Huge Mom Involved Ordinary Theater My Mom Massive Hung Cheeky

Author:Simon Pegg

“I was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on camera, that there were years after that where I wasn't really religious. I certainly wasn't a Catholic anymore, but I still lived with some mythical man in my head. I didn't really put a name to a face, but I just knew that if I was in trouble or scared I would go, 'Oh God, please help me get out of this one.'”

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Author:Bill Maher

“My mom let me kind of run free and be rowdy. She encouraged it. I'm a youngest child. So I was spazzy and trying to be funny to my older sisters. It's kind of my role in the family - tension reliever. I was funny or annoying, depending on your perspective.”

Trying Kind Children Running Roles Perspective Mom Let Me My Mom Tension Annoying Older Sister Rowdy Youngest Child

Author:Andy Samberg

“My parents only played Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye. That's when New Kids came out, and we wanted to jam that. My mom was like, "Put that thing off and put my damn record on". So from old school to '90s to recent, it's just always been there.”

Kids Wanted School Parent Records Brother Mom My Mom Damn Jam Old School Marvin

Author:Solange Knowles

“I'm from Tennessee. My mom lives in Nashville. I'm born and bred country. That's all I listen to.”

Country Born Mom My Mom Nashville Tennessee

Author:Lucy Hale

“My mom and I had secret from my dad that we didn't think we were stupid, that we didn't think we needed feminism to be explained to us.”

Thinking Secret Feminism Stupid Mom Needed Dad My Dad My Mom

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“My mom wasn't, like, she was reading all these historical romance novels the majority of the time. She read a feminist book and then my dad would sit down and explain it to her like she was an idiot.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I always knew she was being funny, but when I tell my therapist that my mom played the trust game with me and let me fall on the ground, my therapist does not find that funny. She's like, "That's the reason for everything! That's why you have such a hard time with trust!" And I'm like, "I don't really have a hard time with trust. I thought it was funny."”

Doe Hard Reason Fall Games Mom Let Me My Mom Hard Times Therapists Being Funny Reason For Everything

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“My mom used to say, “You cannot experience what you cannot imagine ... yet you always experience what you do imagine.”

Used Imagine Mom My Mom

Author:Sonia

“Im from Connecticut. My Mom is an army brat, and my Dad is a navy brat. My childhood was fun. My parents are still together. My childhood was pretty carefree.”

Stills Together Fun Parent Childhood Mom Dad Army My Dad My Mom Navy Carefree Brat Connecticut Army Brat

Author:Cassie Ventura

“My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.”

Father Brother Mom Dad My Family Baseball My Dad My Mom Our Family

Author:Mark Teixeira

“My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.”

Men Years Play Bigs School Father Strong Parent Roles Mom Hero Dad My Dad My Mom Educated Very Strong Principal My Hero Strong Man Superintendents

Author:Dikembe Mutombo

“My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!”

Shows Would Be House Doors Mom Calling Dresses Leaving My Mom Attics

Author:Michael Patrick King

“My mom was my muse - she would buy me Italian 'Vogue.' I was this little fashion boy.”

Littles Boys Fashion Mom My Mom Italian Muse Vogue

Author:Nicola Formichetti

“My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.”

Children Father Missing Mom My Mom Only Child

Author:Brett Ratner

“I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.”

Kind Class Imagine Taught Mom Lessons Program Guitar Following My Mom Piano Gave Up Gymnastics Karate Flutes

Author:Elle Varner

“In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.”

Moments Body Blood Mom Birth Needed My Mom Complicated Dues That Moment Hiv Delivery Teresa Older Sister Blood Transfusion

Author:Ryan Lewis

“My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.”

Needs Writing Stills Used Song Asks Worry Mom My Mom Ask Me Really Happy

Author:Sharon Van Etten

“My mom taught me the power of love. I learned to focus on the long-term big picture from my father. His sense of humor and light-hearted approach always make me smile. My husband is a pivotal anchor in my life. His influence encourages me to be independent and take risks.”

“I think my mom and dad knew from the very beginning that I was destined to go into public service.”

Thinking Mom Dad My Mom Destined Public Service Mom And Dad

Author:Janice Hahn

“My mom was very affectionate but also very loud. My whole house was very loud. My father screamed, my mother screamed - everybody screamed.”

Whole Mother Father House Mom My Mom Loud Affectionate

Author:Michael De Luca

“My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.”

School Teacher Students Mom Thirds My Mom Grades Public School School Teachers Third Grade

Author:Jane McGonigal

“My mom always used to say that average people are the most special people in the world. And that's why God made so many.”

People World Made Used Special Mom Average My Mom Special People

Author:Michael Scott

“I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.”

Want Helping Winning Struggle Stage Mom Dad My Family My Mom Mom And Dad Bulgaria

Author:Leah LaBelle

“My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.”

Kind Mother Strong Mom My Mom Backbone

Author:Aerin Lauder

“My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.”

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Author:Lynn Shelton

“I'm always just carrying a Tupperware cup, ever since my mom went to a Tupperware party and got 'em. I've left them strewn all over the U.S. and Europe. I drink iced tea out of them.”

Left Party Mom Drink Europe My Mom Cups Tea Ems Iced Tea Tupperware

Author:Si Robertson

“I’m very much half-American - my mom is American. I grew up in Australia until I was 16 then I finished high school over here because I got into this performing arts high school.”

Art School Half Grew Mom Grew Up High School My Mom Finished Performing Australia Performing Arts

Author:Betty Who

“My parents split up when I was five, and that changed my life as well. I wasn't used to seeing them away from each other. I had to get used to seeing my dad without my mom. Those things affected the music that I make.”

Wells Used Parent Five Seeing Changed Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Affected Splits Changed My Life Away From Each Other

Author:Joey Badass

“My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.”

Firsts Remember Used Memories Mom My Mom Poison Bottles Scent Perfume Purple Fragrance

Author:John Slattery

“My favorite advice that I always go to is ever since I was in middle school is from my mom. Every day before I left the house, she would say "Remember who you are." Every day. So when I started getting into music, every day she sends me a text saying, "Remember who you are and remember why you're doing this."”

School Remember House Left Middle Advice Mom Who You Are My Favorite My Mom Middle School Remember Who You Are

Author:Kelsea Ballerini

“My mom was always a big fan of Elvis. She made me listen to Elvis when I was a kid. I hated it. And I think now I've kind of grown up to fill in some of the sort of controversy that he created back in his day, but in a much more extreme, modern sense.”

Thinking Kind Made Bigs Kids Fans Modern Mom Extremes My Mom Hated Controversy

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.”

People Made Kids Found Attention Stage Changed Mom Jokes My Mom Eight Monsters Nine Likes Shy Shells Sneakers

Author:Justin Timberlake

“My mom missed meals on several occasions because there was only enough food to feed all of us. My mom didn't have a bed until I was 15 years old. She slept on a couch... I remember laying with her, like I used to sleep with my mom until I was like 12. I was a big baby; I'm a momma's boy. But my mom is my best friend, and never let me down, ever.”

Years Enough Bigs Remember Used Sleep Boys Baby Mom Bed Let Me My Mom Occasions Meals My Best Friend Couches Momma Let Me Down

Author:Kid Cudi

“My mom says I'm her sugarplum. My mom says I'm her lamb. My mom says I'm completely perfect Just the way I am. My mom says I'm a super-special wonderful terrific little guy. My mom just had another baby. Why?”

Way Littles Guy Perfect Wonderful Special Baby Mom My Mom Terrific Sibling Lambs Rivalry Sibling Rivalry

Book:Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“I'd be hanging out in my bathrobe all day, stinky, just writing, and my mom allowed me to do this-as long as I was writing songs. She said, 'As long as you're seriously working on music, I'll support you. Don't get a job, because if you work, it will crush you.”

Ifs Writing Long Said Jobs Song Support Mom My Mom Crush Working It Hanging Out Writing Songs Support You Stinky

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“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

“All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.”

Knows Men Way Years Girl Enemy Feminism Mom My Friends My Mom Right Way Be A Man

Author:Michael Ian Black

“My mom, she was, she studied chemistry. And later on she changed and majored, she changed later in her career, in her life and studied philosophy and then she did a perfect clash, connection between chemistry and philosophy and she became a witch.”

Philosophy Perfect Careers Changed Mom Connections My Mom Chemistry Witch Clash

Author:Alfonso Cuaron

“I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.”

People Parent Realizing Careers Mom Dad Lucky My Dad My Mom Compassionate

Author:Shep Gordon

“My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing her, my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing, Terry, and very emotional.”

Years Firsts Kind Self Light Mother Found Born Knowing Happened Self Esteem Emotional Mom Findings My Mom Esteem Pregnant Shed Detroit Were Pregnant

Author:Keegan-Michael Key

“The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. You know, I speak like my mom; I speak like, you know, like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy.”

World Wanted Guy Speak White Comedy Mom My Mom Impression Comedian Jam White Guys

Author:Jordan Peele

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