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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Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.
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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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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
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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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Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.
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All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.'
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There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
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I think the long-term effect of video on cinema is good in that what we are now getting up there on the screen is of superior quality. Videos are just so much more sensitive to the world.
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Life is an unending stream of extenuating circumstances.
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I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.
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My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.
