Jayne Meadows Quotes
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.
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I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the story - so I called myself the romantic lead.
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My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
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My mother and I were very close and even when I left home and came to London I would ring her every day. She was very proud of me and loved my celebrity. She would often come to shoots and TV shows with me.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
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When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.
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If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.
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They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
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I think that every Saturday, we ought to say, 'My father's a Jew, my mother was a Jew, and I'm a Jew,' with great pride.
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
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You tell me, since Independence, in the field of justice delivery, has so much work been accomplished anywhere? But, for news traders, these things perhaps are not saleable. Now you tell me if these things are pro-poor or not.
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It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same.
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My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.
