“As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.” WayWritingMadeUseMemoriesFictionHappenedNeededMy FamilyMeaningfulNovelistsMatureWriting Fiction Author:Ayelet Waldman
“War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.” MenFirstsHas BeensWarYoungCareersNeededMy FamilyExcitingCuriosityCuriousJournalistYoung ManAffectedGlamorous Author:Sebastian Junger
“I'm sure everyone's got their back story. I don't come from a place of where I was tortured and needed to let something out. I came from a very happy home. I was a little out of control at times. But my family... we all liked to be funny, we all liked to make each other laugh.” LittlesStoriesHomeLaughingNeededMy FamilyVery HappyHappy Home Author:Adam Sandler
“I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.” WorldFeelsLittlesWishParentSecretRegretNeededMy FamilyI RegretKinderCenter Of The World Author:Jason Mraz
“After a short period spent in Brussels as a guest of a neurological institute, I returned to Turin on the verge of the invasion of Belgium by the German army, Spring 1940, to join my family. The two alternatives left then to us were either to emigrate to the United States, or to pursue some activity that needed neither support nor connection with the outside Aryan world where we lived. My family chose this second alternative. I then decided to build a small research unit at home and installed it in my bedroom.” WorldTwoStatesHomeLeftUnitedUnited StatesSupportNeededPeriodsActivitySpringResearchMy FamilyConnectionsDecidedArmyPursueAlternativesGuestsBedroomUnitsAutobiographyInvasionInstituteVergeBelgiumBrussels Author:Rita Levi-Montalcini
“I was motivated to join in large part because my family needed the money. I would like to say how patriotic we were, but really what motivated me was the excitement my mother would get in receiving a check for my older brother.” MotherBrotherNeededMy FamilyChecksExcitementPatrioticMotivatedReceivingOlder Brother Author:Charles Rangel
“My mom had a job, and she also took care of us, and she also took care of Dad - I always saw her pulling triple duty, doing more than I ever felt like she needed to. I made a promise to myself that it would be more of a team effort in my family someday. And because of that, I became more independent.” MadeWould BeCareJobsFeltEffortSawsTeamDutyMomNeededDadPromiseMy FamilyIndependentMy MomSomedayPullingTeam Effort Author:Carrie Underwood
“I have had a very charmed life. I look at what's happened in my life, and I feel so lucky. I don't know how it occurred. I didn't plan it, but I got to be with my family when I needed to be with my family. I got to go and travel the world, doing these amazing projects, and I feel like I'm so privileged and grateful.” KnowsWorldFeelsLooksKnow HowPlansHappenedNeededLuckyProjectsMy FamilyGratefulPrivilegedTravel The WorldSo LuckyCharmedCharmed Life Author:Kristin Kreuk
“I've always been interested in the rest of the world. My family is very eccentric; my parents have always been very supportive of travel and doing whatever I thought I needed to do.” WorldParentNeededMy FamilySupportiveEccentric Author:Lynsey Addario
“I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.” IfsStillsJobsPassionMissingNeededTomorrowMy FamilyQuittingPassion For Music Author:Aaron Watson
“For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty was to escape and that I needed to get back to my family and to my children no matter what. And that I could not accept to just see them as an authority, that I had to always keep in mind that I had to rebel and to keep my distance and to protect my soul because the core of the problem is dignity.” MindChildrenImportantSoulMatterProblemForgetAcceptingDutyNeededProtectAuthorityDignityMy FamilyNo Matter WhatImportant ThingsDistanceCoreMy SoulMy ChildrenGet BackRebel Author:Ingrid Betancourt
“Trent Lott saved my family. I needed three things from him personally, and he came through for me. He made sure that the ice that we desperately needed was delivered. He got us ice, insulin and water. The food came as well. He put politics aside and made sure my family was ok. I will always thank him for that.” WellsMadeThreeWaterNeededMy FamilySavedIceThree ThingsInsulin Author:Donna Brazile
“The women in my family are just strong women who do their own thing, so I knew I needed to have individuals like that.” IndividualStrongNeededMy FamilyStrong Women Author:Jillian Hervey
“When I was invited to go to Wuhan, I didn't know anything about it, so I looked up the Wikipedia about Wuhan. I discovered that part of Wuhan used to be Hankou, and then I realised that my great grandmother came from Hankou. My grandmother and father were both born in Hankou. Of all the places in China, it is the most amazing place to have asked for my exhibition. I needed to go back where my family comes from!” KnowsUsedFatherBornNeededMy FamilyChinaUsed To BeGrandmotherMy GrandmotherInvitedRealisedMother And FatherMost AmazingExhibitionsWikipediaGreat GrandmotherAmazing Places Author:Michael Craig-Martin
“This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.” KnowsYearsLittlesStillsSometimesCoursesDesignChangedNeededHundredMy FamilyNineHandleBladesRefreshingOrnamentation Author:Terry Pratchett
“Times like this it did seem real I was leaving, and even more that my family, and this life, would go on without me. And again I felt that emptiness rise up, but pushed it away. Still, I lingered there, in the doorway, memorizing the noise. The moment. Tucking it away out of sight, to be remembered when I needed it most.” StillsRealMomentsSeemsFeltGoes OnNeededMy FamilySightLeavingNoiseThis LifeRememberedEmptinessDoorwaysMemorizing Author:Sarah Dessen
“My family was always present when I needed them and sometimes felt even stronger emotions than me.” SometimesFeltSportsEmotionFootballNeededMy FamilyStronger Author:Lionel Messi