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Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Aristocrat Biography Different Family French Immigrant Interpreted Jews Sometimes Upbringing Very Were

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Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.

~Alain Dehaze

Topics: Begins Culture Family First First Place Foster Home Inclusion Inclusive Nurturing Openness Place

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In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Christmas Eve Family France Go Holiday Home New Out Stay Year You

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My father was a painter. There was a lot of singing. We hung around with a lot of folk musicians. My family knew a lot of great folk musicians of the time, like Woody Guthrie, Paul Robeson, Leadbelly. They were all people we knew.

~Alan Arkin

Topics: All People Around Family Father Folk Great Hung Knew Like Lot Musicians Painter Paul People Singing Time Were Woody

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I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Able America Any Conflict Confront Exist Family Guess Ideal Knew Love Never Perfect Sold Sure Them Things Through True True Love Understanding Work

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You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.

~Alan Ball

Topics: Age Aware Being Early Early Age Fairly Family Gay Grew Know Repressed Up Very Very Early Age You

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We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.

~Alan Bennett

Topics: Artists Express Family Father First First One Had Hands Miner Miners Mother Myself Our Paper Rather Really Suppose Than Urge Were Who

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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

~Alan Bradley

Topics: About Always Before Ben Big British Canadian Dreamed England Family Flying Growing Growing Up Household Landed More Myself Never Places Plane Talking Than Tired Up Visiting Woke

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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

~Alan Bradley

Topics: Been Being Books British Brought Canada Developed Early England English Family Filled Grandmother Great Great Love Grew Had House Love Magazines Newspapers Piles Reader Really Surrounded Up Very Who

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When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

~Alan Cheuse

Topics: Bonfire Born Copies Country Family First Girl Her Horrifying Irish Neighbors Novel Published Purpose Set She Small Tossed Village Where

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