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My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.
Amanda Harlech
Memory
Sunlight
Through
Amber
Childhood
Jar
Full
Wasps
Earliest
Watching
We grew up in a nice house in a very middle-class area in Bolton and had a very happy childhood. My mum, Falak, who was also brought over from Pakistan by her parents as a kid, devoted herself to bringing up me and my younger brother and sister, Haroon and Tabinda, and my elder sister Mariyah.
Amir Khan
Me
Happy
Parents
Sister
Nice
Herself
Kid
Brother
Brother And Sister
Brought
Area
Had
Over
House
Also
Devoted
Up
Very
Childhood
Grew
Happy Childhood
Elder
Younger
Younger Brother
Who
Pakistan
Mum
Her
Bringing
I'm like the luckiest girl in the world. I've gotten to be a princess, I've gotten to work with the Muppets. A lot of my childhood dreams about who I wanted to be when I was a grown-up, I at least get to play them in movies.
Amy Adams
Work
Dreams
World
Girl
About
Like
Princess
Least
Gotten
Lot
Get
Childhood
Wanted
Movies
Them
Who
Luckiest
Grown-Up
Play
Muppet
I was raised by extremely strict - but also extremely loving - Chinese immigrant parents, and I had the most wonderful childhood! I remember laughing constantly with my parents - my dad is a real character and very funny. I certainly did wish they allowed to me do more things!
Amy Chua
Funny
Character
Me
Wonderful
Remember
Strict
Parents
Wish
Extremely
Immigrant
Laughing
Constantly
More
Had
Allowed
Most
Also
Real
Real Character
Very
Wonderful Childhood
Did
Childhood
Chinese
Loving
Certainly
Dad
Things
Raised
Families fighting childhood cancer should not have to worry about where they're going to get the next dose of the drug they need to save their child's life.
Amy Klobuchar
Life
Cancer
Fighting
Worry
About
Families
Child
Get
Going
Childhood
Where
Dose
Next
Should
Need
Save
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
Class
Mother
Dance
Took
Dancer
Well
Around
Ballet
Years
Up
Childhood
Grew
Really
Many
Whole
It's hard to remember my childhood without remembering music.
Andra Day
Music
Remember
Remembering
Without
Childhood
Hard
For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.
Andreja Pejic
Time
Long
Mirror
Long Time
Looking
Before
Androgyny
Through
Like
Attractive
Because
Felt
Femininity
Ended
Childhood
Just
After
Much
Really
Expressed
What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
Andrew Lo
Mathematics
Learning
Remember
Matter
Difficulties
Tried
Table
Ongoing
Struggled
Throughout
Remarkable
Had
Simply
Particularly
Learn
Makes
How
Times
Childhood
Story
Hard
Multiplication
Early
Early Childhood
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Andrew Wiles
Love
Mathematics
Those
Dates
Days
Cambridge
Up
Childhood
Grew
England
Early
Early Childhood
I'd dreamed of being in the food business from the moment my globetrotting parents introduced me to the foods of the world during childhood trips to Europe and Asia.
Andrew Zimmern
Food
Me
Business
World
Parents
Introduced
Dreamed
Trips
Foods
Childhood
Being
Asia
Moment
Europe
I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have a ton of N.Y.C. in my DNA, from both sides of my family. I had a wonderful childhood in the city.
Andrew Zimmern
War
Family
Wonderful
Sides
Has-Been
City
Civil
Born
Civil War
Both
Both Sides
Had
Since
New
Been
Wonderful Childhood
York
Childhood
New York
New York City
Ton
Raised
I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.
Andy Dick
You
Survival
People
Sometimes
Pain
Think
Defense
Defense Mechanism
Laugh
See
Childhood
Where
Much
Mechanism
Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.
Andy Muschietti
Love
Time
You
Perspective
Reading
Lost
Imagination
About
Adult
Adulthood
Like
Talks
Understand
Inevitably
Childhood
Different
Again
Different Perspective
Belief
Letter
Treasures
Basically
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.
Andy Serkis
Happy
Father
Own
Kids
Brought
Fairly
Up
Five
Childhood
Happy Childhood
Working
Mum
Away
Her
I was 10 when I left Kulm, N.D. I had a wonderful childhood there, out playing in the mud. We moved to California then, but I still went to Catholic school, didn't grow up very sophisticated or very liberal.
Angie Dickinson
Wonderful
School
Liberal
Out
Had
Sophisticated
California
Catholic
Catholic School
Still
Left
Up
Very
Wonderful Childhood
Childhood
Moved
Then
Mud
Grow
Grow Up
Playing
I've been a musician since my childhood.
Anirudh Ravichander
Musician
Since
Been
Childhood
When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.
Ann Hood
Life
Love
Me
Old
Seven
More
Like
Nancy
Fell
Came
Years
Historical
American
Childhood
Famous
Children
Figures
Series
Henry
Published
Dozens
My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven, but I have a great sense of loyalty to all of them, especially the four from my childhood. If those people needed my help, I would be there for them.
Ann Patchett
Great
Loyalty
People
Degree
Sense
Seven
Those
Would
Would-Be
Varies
Great Sense
Closeness
Childhood
Them
Help
Among
Four
Needed
I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who maybe had a rough childhood.
Anna Todd
Life
Me
People
Writing
Amazing
About
Percent
Had
Like
Amazing Life
Childhood
Maybe
Who
Rough
It's kind of a mystery to me, as far as my own life experiences and what I've witnessed - why some people can just move on through traumatic experiences, in childhood particularly, and why other people are just paralyzed by it. I just don't know how and why that is.
Annette Bening
Life
Me
People
Some People
Own
Move On
Other
Kind
Paralyzed
Some
Life Experiences
My Own
Mystery
Through
Know
Particularly
Witnessed
How
Childhood
Move
Just
As Far As
Experiences
Far
Traumatic
Why
The reason for this project comes from my childhood, that is clear to me. I did not have any toys. So, I played in the bricks of ruined buildings around me and with which I built houses.
Anselm Kiefer
Me
Ruined
Project
Clear
Toys
Houses
Around
Buildings
Built
Did
Any
Childhood
Which
Reason
Bricks
Played
I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.
Anthony Browne
Me
Age
Better
Try
Stronger
Older
Faster
Enough
Everything
Brother
Had
Always
Up
Close
Than
Childhood
Grew
Who
Older Brother
Compete
Competitive
I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
Anthony Marra
Time
Good
Job
Nights
Sleeping
Spent
Write
Retail
Writer
Had
Written
Knew
Perform
Days
Know
How
Bedroom
Surgery
Brain
Brain Surgery
Than
Childhood
Short
Anymore
Fiction
Wanted
Stories
Short Stories
While
Working
Here
Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.
Anthony Marra
Me
Reading
Characters
Only
Return
Yielding
Any
Childhood
Hobbes
Meaning
Regularity
Grown
Deeper
Deeper Meaning
Two
Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.
Anthony Marra
War
Writing
First
Final
He
Chechnya
His
Began
Northern
Childhood
While
Forms
Century
Novel
Tolstoy
Career
Set
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