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Up to the age of five, I wanted to be a builder. My neighbour, a builder called Paddy White, would come in for a cup of tea with my mother. I'd assemble all the pillows together at interesting angles, thinking he would spot my talent at a raw young age and take me on as an apprentice.
Aisling Bea
Me
Together
Age
Mother
Young
White
Tea
Thinking
Apprentice
Neighbour
Would
Angles
Take
He
Raw
Talent
Come
Builder
Spot
Pillows
Cup
Up
Five
Young Age
Wanted
Interesting
Assemble
The Compton I knew was from my mother, and it was beautiful. It was this close-knit community, and people cared about one another, and it was safe.
Aja Brown
Beautiful
People
Mother
Community
About
Knew
Safe
Another
Cared
I've been performing since I was a child; my mother would have to pull me aside and tell me that I wasn't onstage. I was a cheerleader, president of choir, and in the school play.
Aja Naomi King
Me
School
Mother
President
Tell
Would
Onstage
School Play
Since
Performing
Cheerleader
Been
Child
Aside
Choir
Play
Pull
My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.
Ajay Mehta
Me
Mother
Father
Sister
Direct
Only
Excellent
Pursue
Singer
Well
However
His
Decided
Regiment
Acting
Used
Who
Her
Enjoyed
Career
Plays
I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
Work
Mom
Mother
Father
Add
Neither
Must
About
Consult
Nor
Anyone
Interfere
Dad
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
Al Lewis
Life
Mom
Me
Woman
Mother
Immigrant
Struggled
Motivated
Center
Worked
Garment
Her
Peasant
They wrapped her up like a baby burrito to show to Mom. Here were a mother and her daughter and I love them both so much. I couldn't wait for Courtney to come to the hospital so I could have all my women together.
Al Roker
Love
Mom
Together
Women
Mother
Wait
Daughter
Baby
Wrapped
Both
Could
Hospital
Come
Like
Courtney
Were
Up
Them
Much
Show
Her
Here
When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.
Al Roker
You
Mother
Try
Will
First
Impress
Kids
Out
Gifts
Tried
Trips
Know
Courtney
Snapped
Getting
Then
Disney
Separated
Your
Showering
Dad
Her
Need
My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
Alan Alda
Mother
Try
Father
Signs
Before
Must
Until
She
Six
Shown
The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York!
Alan Arkin
Music
Time
Son
Theatre
Dark
Mother
Wait
City
See
Emotional
New
Until
She
Hall
Got
Least
Real
Years
Years Ago
Heard
Up
Person
Did
York
Stood
Screamed
New York
Screaming
Movie
Planet
Radio
Now
Last
Last Time
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
Alan Bennett
Myself
Family
Mother
Father
First
Our
Miner
Paper
Miners
Rather
Had
Suppose
First One
Were
Than
Hands
Artists
Urge
Really
Who
Express
I grew up in a nonpolitical family. My mother basically hated everybody.
Alan Colmes
Family
Mother
Everybody
Hated
Up
Grew
Basically
When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet.
Alan Dershowitz
Today
School
Mother
Internet
Will
Lawyer
Say
High
Would
Able
Record
High School
Never
Permanent
Always
Go
Were
Bum
Up
Your
Growing
Elementary
Elementary School
Growing Up
I can't find anything in the Constitution that says you prefer the life of the mother, or the convenience of the mother if it's an abortion by choice, over the potential life of the fetus. Look, I think women, if they're required to not have abortions, could die and could - so I favor a woman's right to choose.
Alan Dershowitz
Life
You
Constitution
Woman
Women
Abortion
Mother
Think
Says
Favor
Find
Potential
Could
Over
Look
Fetus
Die
Convenience
Anything
Prefer
Choice
Required
Choose
Right
My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.
Alan Furst
Work
Me
School
Mother
Father
Young
Would
Ruth
Through
Put
Parties
She
Learn
Cub
Private
Camp
Private School
Selling
Office
Died
Movie
Theater
Sent
Her
Compete
I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
Alan Furst
Mother
Old
Mysteries
Typed
Out
Longhand
Wrote
Little
Them
My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
Alan Jackson
Mom
Me
You
Mother
Everybody
About
More
Gospel
Always
Going
Wanted
Asking
Started
Album
Kept
My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
Alan King
Mother
Car
Accident
Sister
Cousins
Male
Six
Eight
Car Accident
Raised
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.
Alan King
Mother
Made
Fluffy
Everything
Had
Hours
Know
She
Balls
Cook
My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I think he'd have been pleased if I'd made a career of working in the shoe store. But my mother was ambitious. She encouraged us to read books, and she pushed us toward a musical education.
Alan W. Livingston
Education
Mother
Father
Made
Think
Books
Pleased
Musical
Out
Easygoing
Small
Pushed
He
Toward
She
Read
Been
Encouraged
Ambitious
Shoe
Owned
Where
Store
Us
Working
Helped
Saturdays
Career
I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.
Alana Stewart
Better
Mother
Wife
Wish
Understanding
Marriages
More
Both
Better Mother
Had
Been
Compassionate
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
Alastair Campbell
Christmas
Day
You
Memory
Queen
Mother
Political
Christmas Day
Broadcast
Say
Would
Classic
About
Share
Stuff
May
Eight
Refusing
Shrinks
Row
Watch
Earliest
My mother was a part of a reading group, but they would never come near science fiction because they think it's not for them.
Alastair Reynolds
Science
Mother
Reading
Group
Think
Would
Never
Part
Come
Because
Science Fiction
Fiction
Them
Near
There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movies are more comical than realistic: 'Throw Momma from the Train,' 'Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot.' You don't sit in the dark and go, 'Oh my God, that's my mother.'
Albert Brooks
God
Mom
You
Dark
Mother
Will
Sit
Few
Realistic
More
Somewhat
Throw
Go
Been
Train
Than
Shoot
Oh
Stop
Oh My God
Movies
Momma
This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.
Albert Claude
Work
Death
Me
Appreciation
Mother
Long
Physician
Medicine
Respected
Tormented
Case
Study
His
Tragedy
Familiarity
Experienced
Influenced
Wanting
Might
Agony
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.
Alejandro Amenabar
Me
Mother
Second-Hand
Books
Brother
Scary
Take
Liked
Were
Hand
Get
Any
Wanted
Used
Published
Second
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