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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. Olympia Dukakis

My father marched in Selma. My father was there in Alabama. That's where I was born. My birth certificate says 'colored.' It does not say I'm African-American or black. So for me, those are real realities that are not subject to opinion. Orlando Jones

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As long as you keep getting born, it's alright to die some times. Orson Scott Card

You Long Some Born Alright Times Die Getting Keep

That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are. Ory Okolloh

Good You Take For Granted Whatever Define Circumstances One Thing Rural Born Take Arkansas Know Because Up American Move Just Just Because Granted Who Grow Grow Up Thing

I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life. Osric Chau

Life Time Best Opportunity Decision Made My Life Before Slim Vancouver Born None Go Canadian Just Moved Beijing Being China Decisions Asian Actor Amount Raised Olympics

I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. Ottessa Moshfegh

Music Mom Family Writing School First Met States Croatia Born About Pianist Piano Writer Sort First-Person Discovered Iran Up Person Grew Interested Really Belgium Dad United United States Started

I didn't want to write a book as Stephen King's son, because all I did was get born, and that's not much of an accomplishment. If that was the reason my book was published, it wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on. I wanted to do my own thing. Owen King

I was born into the business, literally. My mum was seven months pregnant with me before she realized it, so she kept wrestling like normal up to that point. Paige

Me Business Before Seven Months Born Wrestling Point Like She Normal Up Literally Pregnant Realized Mum Kept

I was born in Canada for a reason. It was because my parents wanted me to have the freedoms that this country offers. Patrick Chan

Me Parents Country Born Freedoms Because Canada Offers Wanted Reason

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born. Patrick Modiano

Time Born Determined Were End In The End Place Which

#BlackLivesMatter was born online but now lives in street actions, in conversations in our homes, and in the dignity swelling in our hearts. That is the power of the open Internet, and it is why we must do everything we can to protect black voices. Our lives depend on it. Patrisse Cullors

Dignity Internet Black Power Depend Our Everything Our Lives Must Born Online Voices Open Protect Hearts Conversations Swelling Actions Now Homes Why Lives Street

I was actually born in Chicago, and then when I was a toddler, my parents moved to Philadelphia. Patti Smith

Parents Born Chicago Moved Then Toddler Actually Philadelphia

Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring. Patton Oswalt

Happy People Some People Parents Else Those Kids Bad Fine Some Born Someone Only Wiring Always How Making Were Up Just Upset Unfortunately Who Growing Growing Up

AI2 was born from a desire to create a system that could truly reason about knowledge, rather than just offer up what had been written on a subject before. Paul Allen

Knowledge Before System Born About Rather Could Had Written Been Subject Truly Up Offer Than Just Create Reason Desire

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know. Paul Auster

Thoughts Strange Writing First Nothing Hell Born Something Mysterious Come Know Does Where Process Then Really Suddenly Utterly

Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made. Paul Engle

Art Good School Made Master Gone Corn Composer Born Architect Hybrid Both Poets Writer Like Instruction Always Least Art School Established Then Sculptor Painter Why Why Not

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987. Paul Muldoon

Life My Life Born Most Until Ireland Northern Northern Ireland Lived

I was always in new schools and had British parents, which was not the norm, and I think there was also... I'm not particularly religious, but I was born Jewish, and I always felt like the outsider because I wasn't Christian or Catholic. Paul Rudd

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