Eric Cantona Quotes
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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We started by playing girls who only married at the end of the picture. We didn't play wives. That came later. But the most dreadful thing was when a star had to play a mother. That was the beginning of her professional end.
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I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.
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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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When I was sixteen I started acting, and I also started to embrace my tradition and culture. I had a young medicine man interpret for me what it is to be an Indian. He really caught me at a good time because I was really vulnerable after the loss of my parents with all of the feelings of abandonment.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
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I didn't have my parents to rebel against, but I had society, and that definitely is what they taught me. Just: Trust nothing.
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It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like. Maybe that will always keep me an outsider, I don't know. But that's fine.
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There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.
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My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.
