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As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.
Mary J. Blige
Tags: Music God You
It's the best thing ever - I love being a mom. This is my only child. My career was a priority earlier in my life, but now my son is definitely the priority.
Stephanie Mills
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My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life.


Alicia Vikander
Tags: Always Life Been
My mother always wanted to be an actress. She was an extra in movies and stuff. I have a feeling this is the classic story: The mother wants to be an actress, and the child ends up doing it. But it was never a jealousy thing between us. It was like - well, I was making my mom happy.
Kristy McNichol
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Communal well-being is central to human life.


Cat Stevens
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As a child, I first wanted to be a cook because my mother was such a good cook.


Yves Rossy
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Being a dad is the best thing that ever happened to me. It changed my life entirely.


Jake Busey
Tags: Best Dad Me
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Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.


Heber J. Grant
Tags: Me Very Being
Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.
Marisol Nichols
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Ever since I was a child, I have loved being the centre of attention, but similarly, I can't remember a time in my life that I haven't battled with all sorts of quandaries, fears and weaknesses.
Gerard Butler
Tags: Time Life Being
My job is to have new ideas and take risks every day, so I'm always looking forward to the next thing being done or making the next thing that I haven't yet gotten to. That's sort of the constant in my life.
Miranda July
Tags: Always Life Being
My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I realized that transformation into these make-believe situations was possible. I decided that was essentially what I wanted to do with my life.
Ezra Miller
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The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work.
Lucas Grabeel
Tags: Work About Just
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I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.


Cheryl Cole
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As a child, I was able to know that I wanted a better life.


Tracy Morgan
Tags: Life Know Better
I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.
Anthony Hopkins
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My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.
Maria Karnilova
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Some of the best things in my life have happened to me because I listened to my mother. And some of the worst things in my life have happened to me because I listened to my mother.
Shani Davis
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I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.
Portia de Rossi
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I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.
Halston Sage
Tags: Up Always Life