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My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.
Dianna Agron
Problems
Father
Would
Would-Be
About
General
General Manager
Clean
Never
Had
He
Hotel
Abuse
Come
Housekeeping
Always
Still
Were
Close
Manager
Any
Room
Us
Lived
Mum
Adamant
Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.
Dianna Agron
Ball
Audrey
Audrey Hepburn
Mixture
Up
Eight
Wanted
Apparently
Lucille
Lucille Ball
Growing
Growing Up
Actor
Mum
Hepburn
I'm still hungry. I'm still striving... You have to understand: my mum has worked hard to look after her children, but we have always been poor; we have always been at rock bottom. I want to change my family history forever.
Dillian Whyte
Family
History
You
Change
Hungry
Striving
Bottom
Look
Understand
Rock
Always
Still
Been
Forever
Family History
Children
Want
After
Poor
Worked
Hard
Mum
Her
Growing up, for me, it was in a musical family, so my mum and her brothers and sisters always sang. Every time I tried to join their group when I was little, they were like, 'Ah, darling, you're not too good - just sit back and watch us.'
Dinah Jane
Time
Good
Family
Me
You
Sit
Group
Every
Too
Every Time
Back
Musical
Tried
Darling
Brothers
Brothers And Sisters
Join
Like
Always
Were
Up
Sisters
Just
Little
Us
Sang
Growing
Growing Up
Mum
Her
Watch
Everyone told me I could sing from about the age of ten. My mum was always telling me. But I was so shy, I didn't believe them. And the more that people told me, the more I went into the background and the less likely I was to sing.
Dionne Bromfield
Me
Age
People
Believe
Everyone
Background
Telling
About
Ten
More
Could
Likely
Sing
Always
Them
Less
Mum
Shy
My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.
Domenico Dolce
Life
Fashion
Winter
Light
My Life
Same Thing
Summer
Wear
Born
About
Cotton
Weights
Although
Always
Tradition
Been
Very
Same
Just
Different
Heavy
Really
Dad
Now
Mum
Conscious
Thing
My mum was very conscious about fashion, and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. And jeans.
Domenico Dolce
Life
Fashion
Winter
Light
My Life
Same Thing
Summer
Wear
Born
About
Cotton
Weights
Although
Always
Tradition
Been
Very
Same
Just
Different
Heavy
Really
Jeans
Dad
Now
Mum
Conscious
Thing
When I phoned up and said, 'Mum, I'm doing a 52-date national tour with Eddie Izzard,' she said 'That's nice, dear. How are you?'
Dominic Holland
You
National
Nice
Tour
Eddie
She
Said
How
Dear
Doing
Up
Mum
My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.
Donnie Yen
Day
You
Every Day
Training
Chi
Young
Every
Teenager
Later
Bruce
Bruce Lee
Boston
Football
Almost
Like
She
Became
Idol
Were
Aunt
Normal
Lee
Famous
Teaching
Baseball
Mum
Lives
Playing
I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.
Dorothy Atkinson
Me
Book
People
School
Drive
Sister
Every
Gave
Mad
About
Shared
Knew
Joyce
Comic
Bedroom
George
Heard
Version
Just
Loved
Radio
Mum
Her
Routines
Every Night
Night
When I am with my mum, I am happiest and healthiest. She always taught me how to eat healthily. She always cooked from the garden, and it was always organic.
Doutzen Kroes
Me
Garden
Organic
Eat
She
Always
How
Am
Taught
Happiest
Cooked
Mum
The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
Drew Barrymore
Funny
Myself
Me
People
Seriously
Too
Humour
Draw
Would
See
Take
Weird
Self-Deprecating
Liked
Make
Around
Always
Hippie
Were
Up
Quick
Comments
Just
Grew
Really
Who
Mum
Her
My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle.
Drew Barrymore
Creativity
Care
Own
About
My Own
Lifestyle
Wanted
Loved
Hollywood
Act
Mum
Cared
My mum is slightly biased and feels everything I do is wonderful, but Dad was like, 'You should go ahead boldly, and I think you should do more films.' To me, that was some kind of acceptance.
Dulquer Salmaan
Me
You
Acceptance
Wonderful
Think
Films
Everything
Slightly
Kind
Some
More
Feels
Like
Biased
Go
Should
Boldly
Dad
Mum
My parents took me to the Bronte parsonage in England when I was a teenager. I had a fight with my mum, burst into tears, jumped over a stile and ran out into the moors. It felt very authentic: A moor really is an excellent place to have a temper tantrum.
Eleanor Catton
Me
Fight
Tears
Parents
Took
Teenager
Ran
Out
Temper
Excellent
Had
Over
Felt
Tantrum
Very
Authentic
Place
Burst
Really
England
Mum
Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
Eleanor Clift
Service
Living
Enough
Secret
Worrying
About
Without
Hard
Keep
Mum
My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free about that. My legs are a bit dangly, and my knees point inwards. Everyone has insecurities, but I try not to focus on them. It's important to be confident with what you've got.
Eliza Doolittle
Me
You
Try
Focus
Free
Important
Everyone
Bit
Insecurities
About
Point
Shapes
Knees
Come
Got
Confident
Taught
Legs
Sizes
Them
Bodies
Should
Mum
It was quite a thespian - 'thespy' - sort of household. My mum had a dance school, and my dad now works in a theatre, so I spent a lot of time going to see dance as a young child - it was just a part of who we were.
Elizabeth Debicki
Time
Theatre
School
Dance
Young
Spent
See
Had
Part
Household
Sort
Were
Lot
Child
Going
Quite
Just
Young Child
Who
Works
Dad
Now
Mum
My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality.
Ella Eyre
Best
Crazy
Woman
Personality
Worlds
Relaxed
Say
Both
Both Worlds
Driven
Very
Energetic
Much
Dad
Mum
My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.
Elton John
Buy
Every
Record
Always
Friday
Used
Mum
I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.
Elton John
Buy
Money
Record
Something
Week
End
Get
Used
Mum
One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden, and we played with the ducks - we locked them in my mum's office, and they pooed everywhere. It was crazy, picking blackberries and mushrooms, rabbits running through your legs.
Emilia Clarke
Crazy
Garden
Stream
First
Mushrooms
Our
Ran
Everywhere
Locked
Out
Running
Through
Had
Picking
Like
Fairy
Houses
Ducks
Office
Legs
Story
Rabbits
Them
Your
Lived
Mum
Played
I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released.
Emilia Fox
Good
Family
Waiting
Cooking
People
Brilliant
Joke
Released
Never
Primarily
Because
Chef
Always
Boyfriend
Been
Surrounded
Done
Who
Mum
Inner
There are many bespoke services in the U.K., but everything's quite old-fashioned. There wasn't anything young and modern and fresh. We're this young service, where a 25-year-old might come and get some great skirts and her mum could come in for some linens.
Emilia Wickstead
Service
Great
Young
Everything
Some
Could
Come
Fresh
Get
Modern
Quite
Where
Anything
Might
Skirts
Old-Fashioned
Many
Mum
Her
Services
It's weird because I do act like best friends, but still, I don't sit there and say my mum's my best friend. That doesn't really cover it.
Emily Atack
Best
Sit
Say
Best Friend
Weird
Like
Because
Still
Cover
Friend
Friends
Really
Act
Mum
My mum bought discounted tickets for shows like 'Cats' and 'Les Miserables'; I became completely enamoured.
Emily Ratajkowski
Cats
Bought
Like
Tickets
Became
Enamoured
Les
Les Miserables
Shows
Mum
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