"Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid."
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"I get so much out of being married and raising my kids - that's really important to me."
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"The greatest joy is my lifestyle, where me and my husband and our kids who go to internet school so they have the freedom to travel with me are able to do what we want, when we want, where we want."
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"I wanted to be a writer when I was a little kid. Then I wanted to be Pete Townshend - the songwriting guitarist who occasionally sang."
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"I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race."
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"Now the whole worlds calling me a killer all I ever did was try to reach the kids with the realer."
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"Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good."
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"As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time."
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"When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that."
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"I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it."
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"The ego is like a kid in the basement: It's best to keep him busy."
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"I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did."
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"My kids were targeted on Facebook by protesters."
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"I joke with my kids, who love history, that I'll be the only governor to be elected twice in his first term."
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"My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals."
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"If we're not counting kids' movies - because my kid is constantly watching The Jungle Book - I would have to say Wall Street."
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"I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it."
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"I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before."
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"I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!""
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"Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast."
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