A Quote by Aneurin Barnard

I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, who's a coal miner, and my mother worked in a normal factory.

Aneurin Barnard

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Aneurin Barnard
Welsh - Actor
Born: May 8, 1987

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Abhishek Bachchan

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Jeff Kinney

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Jayma Mays

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Tom Jones

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Rudolfo Anaya

I grew up listening to my dad, a miner who rose through the ranks to be the mine superintendent in Coalwood, W.V. , yelling orders into his black company phone. He wanted to get coal out of the ground and into coal cars and on its way to steel mills.

Homer Hickam

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Bobby Cannavale

I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the war and developed a lung disease and had to have a lung removed.

Bernard Hill

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

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