Jan Karon Quotes
There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.
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The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.
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I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.
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I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.
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I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
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I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they recognize themselves in the characters and their problems, so the more believable the family is, the more we can draw the audience in.
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We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.
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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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I see girls who are so skinny on the catwalks, and I know so many of them destroy their lives and their family's lives.
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The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
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One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.
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For a meal out, my number one restaurant is Peter's Inn. I first went there when it was an old biker bar. Believe me, when it was Motorcycle Pete's, that was fun. I had my 30th birthday there.
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I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel.
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I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.
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The best prayers have often more groans than words.
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There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
