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		As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laura Osnes
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Oh, my wife is a wonderful cook. She comes from a food-loving Italian family - her father owned a pizzeria!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Buddy Valastro
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rafael Nadal
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bonnie Tyler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Imran Amed
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Darren Aronofsky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kathryn Harrison
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jencarlos Canela
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Randy Moss
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Idina Menzel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Contessa, a.k.a. Baboushka, was a leader in the Russian mafia. Hardnosed, ruthless... very much her own woman. She's a martial artist, marksman, and good with guns and gadgets as any good pulp spy should be. She's supported by her constant companion Gyorgy Gyorgyov, an old friend of her family who was, in fact, her KGB handler and inventor.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Antony Johnston
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was born in a middle class Muslim family, in a small town called Myonenningh in a northern part of Bangladesh in 1962. My father is a qualified physician; my mother is a housewife. I have two elder brothers and one younger sister. All of them received a liberal education in schools and colleges.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Taslima Nasrin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Frankly, one of the problems we have in the country is we're not forming enough families. And that is hurting our economic work, and it's hurting our economic projections, because the best place for a child is within a strong family unit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Brownback
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Up till now I wrote the songs on my acoustic guitar alone with the Lord. Then I would take the song and share it with my family and then we all would figure out instrumentation together.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Smith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vicki Lawrence
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marc Veasey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Lambert
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Orlando Bloom