Alice McDermott Quote: 'I was born in Brooklyn, but ...' @FEELquotes

I was born in Brooklyn, delivered by a Chinese doctor on a table in a boarding house on Sept. 23, 1920.

Mickey Rooney

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I was born in Paris and raised in the suburbs and then lived in the countryside.

Marion Cotillard

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I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

Amartya Sen

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I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.

Toks Olagundoye

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Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.

Hugo Weaving

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I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.

Michelle Rodriguez

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I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.

Sebastian Stan

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I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Helena Bonham Carter

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I was born in Chicago in 1927, the only child of Morris and Mildred Markowitz, who owned a small grocery store. We lived in a nice apartment, always had enough to eat, and I had my own room. I never was aware of the Great Depression.

Harry Markowitz

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I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

Howard Schultz

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I was born deaf. Sound never existed in my life, and this is completely normal to me.

Nyle DiMarco

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I was raised in Brooklyn, and I lived there for 59 years.

Herbie Mann

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My grandmother, Nina Eaton, founded United Cerebral Palsy. At the time that my father was born with it, there were no resources for people with the condition. So my grandmother and grandfather, who lived in Brooklyn, tried to reach out for some type of resource or support, and people just told them to institutionalize my father.

Meredith Eaton

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I was born free.

W. E. B. Du Bois

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I was born into public service.

Janice Hahn

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I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.

Hannah Simone

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I was born to play baseball.

Roberto Clemente

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When I was born I owed twelve dollars.

George S. Kaufman

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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.

J. G. Ballard

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I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.

Lincoln Chafee

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