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Throughout my childhood, I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood was haunted by the fear that they would be deported.
Diane Guerrero
Legal
People
Money
Fear
Try
Parents
Become
Lost
Would
Would-Be
Haunted
Throughout
Never
Attorneys
Ultimately
Childhood
Avail
Meant
Who
Helped
Believed
Watched
Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?
Dick Cavett
God
Debate
Nowadays
AIDS
Philosophy
Classes
Could
Allow
Merciful
Like
How
Cheney
Freshman
Versions
Dick Cheney
Questions
Updated
Cancers
Childhood
Age-Old
I had an idyllic childhood with the freedom to go and play.
Dick Strawbridge
Freedom
Had
Idyllic
Go
Childhood
Play
My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.
Dinaw Mengestu
Time
Political
Parents
Those
Circumstances
About
Reluctant
Never
Had
Talk
Because
Came
Were
Loss
Lot
Left
Upheaval
American
Childhood
Which
Much
Ethiopia
Large
Largely
Things
Since childhood, my mother made sure I oiled my hair and conditioned them properly every week. I still follow that regimen. Plus, I have naturally good quality hair.
Disha Patani
Good
Quality
Mother
Made
Hair
Every
Follow
Plus
Good Quality
Properly
Week
Since
Sure
Still
Conditioned
Childhood
Regimen
Them
Naturally
I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.
Don DeLillo
Work
Sense
Think
Catholic
Childhood
Things
Last
I don't remember much of my childhood. My father passed away when I was six, and sadly, I don't have the fuzziest, foggiest memory of him - what his voice was like, anything he ever said to me, nothing. My early years are a total blur.
Don Willett
Me
Memory
Remember
Father
Nothing
Early Years
Total
Voice
He
Like
Sadly
Him
Said
Passed
His
Years
Childhood
Six
Anything
Blur
Much
Away
Ever
Early
Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
Donna Brazile
Faith
Tough
Enjoy
Imagination
Though
Able
Because
Childhood
Even
When I think back to my childhood, I just think of the word 'freedom.' In the summers, we spent all day on the beach.
Donna Langley
Day
Freedom
Word
Think
Back
Summers
Spent
All Day
Beach
Childhood
Just
I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.
Doris Lessing
Education
You
Writing
Sorry
Out
Threw
Write
Had
Know
Wrote
Terrible
Were
Childhood
Which
Them
Novels
Thing
Two
All my habits through life have been singularly removed from any condition of reliance on others, and the feeling - right or wrong - that aloneness is my proper position has prevailed since my early childhood, no doubt nourished and strengthened by many and quick-following bereavements.
Dorothea Dix
Life
Feeling
Doubt
Others
Reliance
No Doubt
Proper
Prevailed
Habits
Through
Wrong
Since
Been
Condition
Any
Childhood
Nourished
Many
Right
Strengthened
Early
Early Childhood
Position
I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.
Drew Barrymore
Journey
My Journey
Nothing
Kid
Parent
Liked
Provide
Did
Any
Childhood
Want
Whether
Really
Appreciate
I think the expectation of me was that I'd grow up, get married, have a family, probably not even have a job outside the home. I had bold notions sometime in my childhood that I wanted to be veterinarian... I wasn't sure I'd ever do it.
Drew Gilpin Faust
Home
Family
Me
Job
Expectation
Think
Married
Sometime
Outside
Had
Sure
Up
Get
Veterinarian
Get Married
Childhood
Wanted
Notions
Bold
Even
Grow
Grow Up
Ever
At 9 years old, I moved in with my father because my mother could no longer care for me. Looking back, I now see so many similarities between my own childhood and that of my sons. My father stepped in when I needed him, and that gave me the chance for a better life. That's what I'm doing for my boys now.
Dwyane Wade
Life
Me
Better
Mother
Old
Care
Father
Looking
Looking Back
Own
Gave
Back
See
Similarities
My Own
Better Life
Could
Stepped
Sons
Between
Longer
Him
Because
Boy
Doing
Years
Childhood
Moved
Many
Now
Chance
Needed
If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!
Dylan Lauren
Best
Organization
Job
Become
Otherwise
Backup
Dream
Would
Would-Be
Part
Singer
Doing
Were
Friends
Michael
Michael Jackson
Jackson
Childhood
Candy
Want
Janet Jackson
Create
Much
Rescue
Second
People will say candy is recession-proof, and we're definitely seeing nostalgic candies coming about, and people want that sugar rush and that nostalgic happiness, like their childhood times.
Dylan Lauren
Happiness
People
Will
Sugar
Say
Definitely
Rush
Seeing
About
Like
Coming
Times
Childhood
Candy
Want
Nostalgic
I was into all of the Pennsylvania teams at some point in my childhood. I would flip back and forth between the Pirates and the Phillies, and I was always a Steelers fan but not much of an Eagles fan. Then I became kind of a band nerd in school, and I went the music route.
Ed Kowalczyk
Music
School
Band
Back
Kind
Would
Pennsylvania
Nerd
Some
Point
Between
Became
Always
Pirates
Childhood
Fan
Forth
Then
Much
Flip
Teams
Route
Eagles
Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.
Edin Dzeko
War
Fear
Poverty
Having
Like
Know
Well
Looks
How
Been
Very
Childhood
Displacement
Raised
Violence
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Matters
Kingdom
Nobody
Dies
Childhood
Where
I had a very happy childhood. But I was sent off to boarding school at quite a young age, this massive Victorian house that was suffocated in ivy. I think there is a part of that school in 'Heap House.'
Edward Carey
Age
Happy
School
Young
Think
Had
Part
House
Massive
Heap
Off
Very
Ivy
Quite
Childhood
Young Age
Boarding
Boarding School
Victorian
Happy Childhood
Sent
Suffocated
The sole literary presence from my childhood was my grandfather, a Jewish immigrant from Latvia, who eccentrically copied poems into the backs of his books. After he died, when I was 8 years old, my grandmother gave his books away, and his poems were lost.
Edward Hirsch
Old
Lost
Gave
Books
Sole
Backs
Immigrant
Poems
He
Were
His
Years
Died
Childhood
Literary
After
Grandfather
Grandmother
Who
Away
Copied
Presence
Jewish
There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.
Edward Hoagland
Badly
Talk
Periods
Were
Childhood
My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
Eleanor Porter
Me
Relationship
Through
Because
Got
Very
Personal
Childhood
Pollyanna
My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
Elena Roger
Me
Mind
Knit
Returns
Childhood
Taught
Grandmother
One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.
Elie Wiesel
Family
Beginning
Back
Religious
Come
Always
Surrounding
Very
Goes
Childhood
In The Beginning
When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childhood, a fascination with the vanished world, and I can find everything except that world.
Elie Wiesel
Bible
World
Old
Everything
Find
Vanished
Except
Learn
Still
Years
Five
Did
Childhood
Fascination
Four
Pull
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