All Quotes

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

I had a very ordinary background in Sheffield; I went to a secondary modern, but I saw something on TV in 1968 that inspired me to join an athletics club, and 12 years later, with great coaching and the support of people who loved me a lot, I ended up at an Olympic Games.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.
‐‐ Alison Jackson

I had a very public battle with anorexia.
‐‐ Tracey Gold

I had a very quick moment on 'Happy Endings.'
‐‐ Justin Baldoni

I had a very rough and tumultuous childhood.
‐‐ Corey Feldman

I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
‐‐ Brunello Cucinelli

I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life was made up of, you know, in the morning going to the river to fetch water - no tap water, and no electricity - and, you know, bathing in the river, and then going to school, and playing soccer afterwards.
‐‐ Ishmael Beah

I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.
‐‐ Jerry Mathers

I had a very spoilt childhood. Not that my family were incredibly wealthy, but we lived on the beautiful island of Hawaii where everything was lush and in abundance.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.
‐‐ Colin Hay

I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.
‐‐ Tori Amos

I had a very strong background in journalism, so it's my instinct to try to be as fair and accurate as possible.
‐‐ Peter Landesman

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
‐‐ Nelson DeMille

I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in it. The military draft was in place, I was summoned for a physical exam, and I was either going to be classified as fit for military service or make my objection to it. So I made my objection to it.
‐‐ Harrison Ford

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.
‐‐ Jim Parsons

I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
‐‐ Jan de Bont

I had a very supportive family environment that gave me room to explore and discover things about myself.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
‐‐ Laura Mvula

I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.
‐‐ Giada De Laurentiis

I had a very turbulent and painful childhood, like many people. I left for college when I was 16 years old and up until that point I'd lived in five different family configurations. Each one ended or changed through a death or some terrible loss.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg

I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved.
‐‐ Anne Wojcicki

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
‐‐ Jo Stafford

I had a very, very difficult relationship with my mother, who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.
‐‐ John Cleese

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
‐‐ Beverly Cleary

I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

I had a vision how it should sound and I put all my knowledge into this product and it is a fantastic product. People still tell me that I have the best musical thing there.
‐‐ Miroslav Vitous

I had a vision of how basketball should be played. And the vision was the Knicks teams that won the championship in 1970 and 1973. I wanted a team that emphasized defense. I wanted a team that on offense had a system where players moved off the ball, and the ball moved.
‐‐ Jerry Reinsdorf

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.
‐‐ Peter Hammill

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
‐‐ Black Elk

I had a vocal coach. It's a sad thing, but I had to hire someone so that I could get my Australian accent back.
‐‐ Anthony LaPaglia

I had a wall around me and a lot of fantasy locked inside.
‐‐ Peggy Lipton

I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured.
‐‐ Phil Daniels

I had a weird dream the other night that I was on 'Jersey Shore.'
‐‐ Chloe Sevigny

I had a weird high school because I graduated early when I was 16. I moved out to California, but I was only there for freshman and sophomore year, and I was a bit of a brainiac.
‐‐ Shanley Caswell

I had a weird situation were someone used my name to extort money from a woman. He took her for 60 or 80 thousand dollars. He is in prison now. It was on Sally.
‐‐ Michael Biehn

I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
‐‐ Abbi Jacobson

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

I had a whole Scottish existence until we moved to London when I was four.
‐‐ Kenneth Cranham

I had a woman breakdown and cry when she met me which was difficult to deal with because immediately when someone starts to cry, you want to comfort them, you know, 'Poor thing.' I comforted her. I tried to make her feel better.
‐‐ Elijah Wood

I had a wonderful and very successful career in New York and had the privilege of working with some of the best editors and publishers in the business.
‐‐ Teresa Medeiros

I had a wonderful career.
‐‐ Robert Duvall

I had a wonderful childhood, but I was a wanderer from year one.
‐‐ Maureen Forrester

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
‐‐ Suzanne Farrell

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood.
‐‐ Larry David

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.
‐‐ Dian Fossey

I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
‐‐ Doris Day