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I was born on 7 September 1917 at Sydney in Australia. My father was English-born and a graduate of Oxford; my mother, born Hilda Eipper, was descended from a German minister of religion who settled in New South Wales in 1832. I was the second of four children. John Cornforth

This is why improvisational music and comedy is so inspiring: You are seeing something being born, and that energy, there is no substitute for. These songs, most of them, are about a minute old when you hear them. John Darnielle

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When you're born into a showbiz family, the deck is stacked against you. John Darnielle

Family You Born Stacked Against Deck Showbiz

My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina - well, both grandfathers were born in the South. John Edgar Wideman

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I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8. John Joseph Adams

Born New Mostly New Jersey Up Died Grew Dad Jersey Florida

I was born in Newton, MA. Graduated from Brown University in 2001 with honors in English as a playwright. I attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Center in Waterford, CT just after Brown. I moved to NYC in 2002 and was a professional... waiter, for 3 years. John Krasinski

The real color of my hair is mouse. I always want to be ginger, which I was when I was born, or blond, because I live in L.A., and I want to look like I go surfing without any physical effort. John Lydon

Actually I was born in 1940 in Blackpool because my family lived in Manchester but Manchester was being bombed. So my mother was sent away to Blackpool to have me and then went back; so I lived my first eighteen years in Manchester and then emigrated to the States when I was eighteen. John Mahoney

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When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances. John Major

Circumstances Born Economic Wrong Euro

I think I was born at a time when an American male had so many advantages and opportunities that weren't available to men before or after, just a very brief period. John Malkovich

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I was born on the 24th of September 1755 in the county of Fauquier, at that time one of the frontier counties of Virginia. My father possessed scarcely any fortune and had received a very limited education - but was a man to whom nature had been bountiful, and who had assiduously improved her gifts. John Marshall

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The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased. John Mellencamp

People Greed Expectation Out Collections Purchased Record Born Prop Record Sales Had Sales Up Noted Should Albums

No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not. John Milius

You Born Writer Either Storyteller

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish. John Patrick Shanley

Music Old Father Country Sheep Own Hell Farm Other Side Back Stayed Born Brothers Had He Over Cattle Till Shepherds Been His Surrounded Up Irish Just Being Grew Old Country Away Kelly Early

I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views. John Paul Stevens

But like a born actor who only really wants to direct, Gingrich has always been unsatisfied with what he's brilliant at. He can't still his hunger to deliver grand pronouncements on life, liberalism, conservatism, religion and whatever else swims into his consciousness. John Podhoretz

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Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine. John Shirley

When I was born, my parents and my mother's parents planted a dogwood tree in the side yard of the large white house in which we lived throughout my boyhood. This tree I learned quite early, was exactly my age - was, in a sense, me. John Updike

I fell in love immediately with Daisy Ridley. She is just a superstar born. John Williams

Love Immediately Born Superstar Fell She Just Daisy

I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together. Jon Batiste

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