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  Jamie Oliver
  British celebrity chef and restaurateur 1975-

  

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  All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter.
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  Billy Paul
  

  

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  All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.
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  Anthony Weiner
  American politician 1964-

  

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  All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.
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  Bonnie Tyler
  Welsh singer 1951-

  

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  Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
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  Barbara Mandrell
  American country music singer, musician, and actress 1948-

  

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  And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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  Peter Ackroyd
  English biographer, novelist and critic 1949-

  

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  And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
  Source: First Light (1996) 50
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  Augusten Burroughs
  American writer 1965-

  

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  As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
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  Billy Gardell
  American stand-up comedian and actor 1969-

  

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  As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.
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  Caroline Rhea
  Canadian–American actress 1964-

  

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  As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
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  Billy Eckstine
  American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader 1914-1993

  

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  As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.
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  Salvador Dali
  Spanish painter 1904 - 1989

  

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  At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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  Ben Schwartz
  American actor, comedian, writer and producer 1981-

  

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  At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.
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  Benjamin Clementine
  British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician 1988-

  

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  Because I didn't think anyone would actually listen to my music, I thought I could say whatever I wanted.
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  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  American athlete 1911-1956

  

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  Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.
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  Carl Hubbell
  American baseball player 1903-

  

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  Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.