With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.
‐‐ Miriam Toews
With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure that had a huge influence on me. However, my father had more influence on me just by the way he lived, because the way he was at the racetrack was the way he was in everyday life.
‐‐ Jacques Villeneuve
With my father, there was one baseball game, one football game, one fishing trip. You got one of everything. And that was all you got. It was enough, though, and I adored him. He was a god to me.
‐‐ David Carradine
With my feelings, I hold a lot in, because I didn't always have boundaries and people would take advantage of situations because I'm a nice guy.
‐‐ Kellan Lutz
With my fiction, I focused on chapters and overall conceptions, while in poetry, I crawled along in the trenches of each sentence, examining every word for a sign of a deeper significance.
‐‐ Philip Schultz
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.
‐‐ Hill Harper
With my first pay cheque I sent my parents to Jamaica, so they actually got passports! They're pretty grounded; it wasn't until they saw the trailer for 'Battleship' that they were like, 'Ooh, this is a big movie, isn't it?'
‐‐ Brooklyn Decker
With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.
‐‐ Mekhi Phifer
With my first two husbands, I always kinda sensed they thought there was something wrong with me. Maybe I was too flighty or whatever.
‐‐ Dixie Carter
With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.
‐‐ Judith Guest
With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
‐‐ Kate Christensen
With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
‐‐ R. Kelly
With my government, we engaged in bringing our help to fights for national freedom. At that precise moment, several countries were still colonised or had barely overcome colonisation. This was the case in practically all of Africa. We supported them.
‐‐ Ahmed Ben Bella
With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.
‐‐ Brad Paisley
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.
‐‐ Carolyn McCarthy
With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.
‐‐ Joe Scarborough
With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
‐‐ Randa Abdel-Fattah
With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.
‐‐ Kathryn Lasky
With my kids, they're told 75 times a day that they're loved. One thing I know is they feel loved and secure and happy and needed and necessary and a part of something.
‐‐ Johnny Depp
With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.
‐‐ Louis Jordan
With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
‐‐ Robert Orben
With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.
‐‐ Peter Mayhew
With my middle-class metabolism, the suburbs were where I always wanted to be.
‐‐ Susan Isaacs
With my ministry of light, part of what I do is work on the California Alliance For Arts Education.
‐‐ Sally Kirkland
With my mother, I moved from one household to another before settling in the eastern part of Finland, in the city of Kuopio.
‐‐ Martti Ahtisaari
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.
‐‐ Enya
With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.
‐‐ Estelle
With my natural communication abilities, I could probably gather a crowd even without the Spirit.
‐‐ Francis Chan
With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.
‐‐ Andrew Shue
With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang
With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
‐‐ Augusten Burroughs
With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
‐‐ Kaley Cuoco
With my personal preparation at the piano, I can afford to hum at half voice.
‐‐ Placido Domingo
With my physicality and my face, I don't think I could pull off a completely righteous guy. There's something devious about my eyes. I like characters with flaws and to see how they overcome those flaws. I want to play real people, and they're flawed, not perfect.
‐‐ Emraan Hashmi
With my plays, when the lights go down, at least the audience isn't thinking, 'Oh, God, two more hours of this.'
‐‐ David Ives
With my projects, I really like the extreme high-tech stuff, but I also like the other end, the acoustic things. So it seems like those meet on an iPad, where you make shapes but the sounds coming out of it are really acoustic.
‐‐ Bjork
With my quick success, I didn't have time to learn the ropes of the music business. Because my first record was such a hit, I was terribly spoiled and I thought I couldn't do anything wrong. I was also desperate to make tons of money because of my responsibility to my daughter. And there was no longer any joy in making music.
‐‐ Phoebe Snow
With my responsibilities comes having to manage my time more efficiently.
‐‐ Derek Fisher
With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.
‐‐ Steve Garvey
With my runners now, they get two month-long breaks during the year.
‐‐ Alberto Salazar
With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.
‐‐ Jordin Sparks
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome.
‐‐ Edward Carpenter
With my son, falling off his bike is usually what makes him upset, so a hug goes a long way. But girls are more complicated; my daughter will get bummed out because her friend hurt her feelings. In that case, we'll talk about it. I'll tell her that she's a great friend, and that she needs to talk to her friends about it.
‐‐ Summer Sanders
With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
‐‐ Dan Hill
With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.
‐‐ Corey Feldman
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
‐‐ Nana Mouskouri
With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.
‐‐ Amanda Beard
With my stepson, it is very important to me that there is no drama around the fact that he has two families.
‐‐ Allegra Huston
With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren.
‐‐ Doc Hastings