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I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.
Andrea Barrett
Time
Me
Book
Battle
Mother
Father
Reading
Young
Down
Saw
Tell
Would
Find
Constant
More
More Or Less
Outside
He
Put
Like
Read
Always
Go
Passionately
Normal
Lot
Normal Person
Very
Person
Whenever
Where
Place
Act
Less
Searching
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career.
Andrea Jung
Best
Good
Great
Family
Me
Culture
Mother
Example
Parents
Great Example
She
Asian
Working
Aspects
Americanized
Career
Kept
Every mother wishes the best for her children.
Andrea Navedo
Best
Mother
Every
Wishes
Children
Her
My mother and I were part of a deal in the mid-'60s between Romania and Israel. Israel bought freedom for Romanian Jews for $2,000 a head. Ceausescu made a bundle in hard currency. He also 'sold' ethnic Germans to West Germany. Instead of going to Israel, my mother and I came to the United States.
Andrei Codrescu
Freedom
Mother
Made
Jews
Sold
States
He
Part
Head
Bought
Instead
Between
Also
Deal
Israel
Came
Were
West
Germans
Germany
Bundle
Currency
Going
Romania
Ethnic
Hard
United
United States
I do have to thank my mother for my eyebrows.
Andreja Pejic
Mother
Eyebrows
Thank
I would go through my mother's makeup kit, and I think she thought it was really cute. I was only three or four years old.
Andreja Pejic
Mother
Old
Thought
Three
Cute
Think
Would
Only
Kit
Through
She
Makeup
Go
Years
Really
Four
I had a mother who was very emotionally demanding, wanting to be the centre of attention. As they say in EastEnders, she thought it was all about 'er. I spent a lot of time trying to work out what was going on.
Andrew Davies
Work
Time
Mother
Thought
Demanding
Say
Spent
Out
About
Had
Emotionally
Attention
She
Lot
Very
Trying
Going
Wanting
Centre
Work Out
Who
They Say
There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's got no choice but to turn to crime, because the railway's hassling his mother. But he wasn't like that.
Andrew Dominik
Mother
Crime
Seen
No Choice
About
He
Like
Because
Got
Been
His
James
Movies
Them
Turn
Choice
Rebel
Railway
Four
Portrayed
I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.
Andrew Sean Greer
Life
Mother
Church
Took
Later
Religious
She
Said
Get
Us
Unitarian
Raised
I've always been shocked and waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop that a girl would ever talk to me, let alone want to marry me. They always seem to hold the power to me, and from my mother to my wife to my daughter, every time I try to really figure them out, and think I've got them pegged, I pay for it.
Andrew Stanton
Alone
Time
Me
Mother
Try
Wife
Girl
Daughter
Power
Pay
Every
Think
Every Time
Out
Would
Marry
Seem
Talk
Always
Got
Been
Shocked
Want
Hold
Them
Really
Figure
Ever
When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, 'Then there's no hope for me, Mum.'
Andrew Sullivan
Hope
God
Me
You
Mother
Everything
No Hope
About
True
She
Knows
Said
Answered
Yes
Eight
Then
Asked
Mum
The first snowball I froze was put in my mother's deep freeze when I was in my early 20s.
Andy Goldsworthy
Mother
First
Put
Freeze
Snowball
Deep
Early
Early 20s
I'm having everything. I'm a vegetarian, too. But in my mother's house, I eat whatever I'm served.
Andy Kaufman
Mother
Whatever
Too
Everything
Eat
Having
Vegetarian
House
Served
Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.
Andy Roddick
Love
Best
Me
Cheese
Mother
Old
Own
Tried
All-American
My Own
Never
Make
Call
Ham
Times
Same
Any
Just
Sandwich
Sandwiches
Many
When I was a kid, I used to pretend to be Bond; I used to make up scenarios and irritate my sister and annoy my mother and father pretending to be someone else, so I kind of was already acting when I was a child. I just didn't really know it.
Aneurin Barnard
Mother
Father
Pretending
Mother And Father
Sister
Else
Kid
Kind
Pretend
Someone
Scenarios
Annoy
Know
Make
Make Up
Up
Child
Just
Irritate
Really
Acting
Used
Bond
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
Angela Carter
War
Time
Day
Family
Me
Doctor
World
Mother
Once
Carrying
Magic
About
Had
Talent
She
Learned
Been
Very
Same
Same Time
Realism
Second
World War
Second World War
My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items - and I remember it because it seemed so elegant - was her Guerlain powder.
Angelina Jolie
Woman
Natural
Remember
Mother
Few
Herself
Those
Seemed
Never
Had
Spoiled
Powder
Feel
Like
She
Because
Always
Items
Very
Lady
Wanted
Wore
Modest
Special
Elegant
Her
Jewellery
My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.
Angelina Jolie
Life
Good
Me
Grace
Better
Mother
Will
Own
Everything
Never
Generous
Most
She
Than
Just
Children
Experiences
Loving
Much
Incarnate
Full-Time
Her
Career
To be in any way a positive contribution, that's all anybody wants to be. It's all I've ever wanted to be. I wanted to be an artist, be a mother. You want to feel that in your life you've been of use, in whatever way that comes out.
Angelina Jolie
Positive
Life
You
Mother
Whatever
Way
Out
Feel
Been
Contribution
Any
Artist
Anybody
Want
Wanted
Wants
Use
Your
Ever
Without Cambodia, I may never have become a mother. Part of my heart is and will always be in this country. And part of this country is always with me: Maddox.
Angelina Jolie
Me
Heart
Mother
Will
Country
Become
Never
Part
Without
Always
Cambodia
May
My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.
Angelina Jolie
World
Mother
Earth
Person
Nicest
My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.
Angie Dickinson
Funny
Me
Mother
Frank
Frank Sinatra
Introduced
Sinatra
Until
Being
Against
Actress
Her
My mother took my picture to a model agency and the rest is history.
Angie Everhart
History
Mother
Rest
Picture
Took
Model
Agency
My mother was a great influence in my life and my career. She not only helped me master the business side of radio, but she also taught me how to conduct myself.
Angie Martinez
Life
Myself
Great
Me
Business
Mother
My Life
Master
Side
Only
Also
She
How
Conduct
Taught
Influence
Business Side
Helped
Radio
Career
At 7, I was shooting 3s with so much ease that the guys at the neighborhood park were impressed. Michael Jordan was one of the best humans to walk the earth in my eyes, third only to Jesus and my mother.
Angie Thomas
Best
Eyes
Mother
Walk
Earth
Ease
Neighborhood
Guys
Only
Park
Jordan
Were
Impressed
Michael
Michael Jordan
Shooting
Much
Jesus
Humans
Third
I didn't care for school much - it was very strict, corporal punishment in the form of the 'tawse' was common and unpredictable, and I was often afraid - but I believe that I did well enough; indeed, my mother always regretted that I had not stayed long enough to become the 'dux,' as the best pupil was called.
Angus Deaton
Best
School
Mother
Care
Strict
Long
Become
Believe
Enough
Corporal
Indeed
Punishment
Pupil
Unpredictable
Stayed
Had
Well
Well Enough
Always
Very
Did
Often
Common
Afraid
Form
Much
Regretted
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