“I'm albino, my family is white, but I was really raised, and taught my important life lessons, by the black community.” ImportantBlackCommunityWhiteTaughtLessonsMy FamilyRaisedLife LessonBlack CommunityImportant Life LessonsImportant Life Author:Brother Ali
“I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.” KidsSchoolLaughingLessonsConcernedMy Family Author:Mathew Baynton
“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons... It wasn't forced on me. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music. I never went through a period where I didn't want to do it.” WantYearsWantedMotherFourPeriodsLessonsMy FamilyMusicalPianoFour YearsPlaying MusicPiano Lesson Author:John Legend
“I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.” GivingFirstsImportantSongParentPlayerMomDadLessonsMetsMy FamilyGuitarMy DadMy MomPianoViolinGrandmaMy GrandmaPiano Lesson Author:Eric Hutchinson
“Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I supported my family, and if I got fired or missed an audition, I’d be punished as if I’d messed up in school. I was starved, because they wanted to keep my weight at a certain place; my hair was bleached – that was my life. I wasn’t allowed to play with kids on my block or ride a bike or play ball, in case I got a scratch – I wasn’t even allowed to be bar mitzvahed because I couldn’t attend enough lessons.” IfsEnoughPlayKidsWantedSchoolCertainChoicesActorsCasesHairBecomingLessonsMy FamilyWeightBallsBarsBlockAuditionsBikeScratchesMessed UpBar Mitzvah Author:Corey Feldman
“I'm the only person in my family who can't sing. My grandmother was an opera singer and all of her kids were in church five days a week - or between church and vocal lessons at Carnegie Hall. But my mom had her first studio experience recording on my album. She's used to having to fill the room, so she had to adjust to the microphone and not sing opera.” FirstsPersonsKidsUsedChurchRoomsFiveWeekMomLessonsMy FamilyAlbumsStudiosMy MomSingersGrandmotherHallsOperaMy GrandmotherVocalMicrophonesCarnegieOpera SingersCarnegie Hall Author:Le1f
“I love my family. I came home the other days. My brother's passed-out on the couch, holding an empty bottle of sleeping pills. So I called the paramedics, and they pumped his stomach, and I think he's learned his lesson: you know, never to take my last two sleeping pills.” ThinkingKnowsTwoHomeLastsSleepFamilyBrotherLessonsMy FamilyEmptyMy BrotherBottlesStomachPillsCouchesLove My FamilyI Love My FamilyParamedicsSleeping PillsEmpty Bottles Author:Emo Philips
“My family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.” YearsMotherFourLessonsMy FamilyMusicalPianoFour YearsPiano Lesson Author:John Legend
“Growing up in rural Louisiana, the ecosystem around our home wove harmoniously into our family and into our daily life. Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family.” WayHomeGrowing UpEnvironmentGrowingLessonsMy FamilyOur FamilyDaily LifeLife LessonRespectfulEcosystemsLouisianaRespectful Relationships Author:Ian Somerhalder
“Taj [ Johnson] is the singer in my family. So whenever I would be practicing my warmups in the house, she would let me have it. I could be on the other side of the house doing my voice lessons and she would scream, "Drop your jaw for those long notes."” LongWould BeHouseSidesVoiceLessonsMy FamilyLet MeNotesSingersScreamJohnson Author:Eddie George
“Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.” WayUnderstandingNaturalAnimalEnvironmentTeachingIdentityLessonsAppreciateMy FamilyRaisedComplexesSignificantLife LessonChaptersRespectfulColumnsEcosystemsMagnificenceRespectful Relationships Author:Ian Somerhalder
“My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!” StoriesFilmMotherFatherSidesClassBrotherLessonsMy FamilyDancingWestMy BrotherMother And FatherEnamoredWest SideTap DancingWest Side Story Author:Marisa Tomei
“As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.” WorldHas BeensCharacterFeelingsHomeWould BeBehindsJourneyThis WorldLessonsMy FamilyProtectionCompanionBelongingNurturingWovenGroundedness Author:Sidney Poitier