Jeff Lindsay Quotes

I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.

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• I love ABC Family!

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
  • Love
  • I Love

• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • World
  • Family
  • Parents

• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Work
  • Family
  • Fun

• One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Family
  • Style
  • Things

• I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

  

  Yuna
  • Family
  • Future
  • Start

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Family
  • Change
  • Places

• I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• I'm always the underdog, and I go in there and win the fights.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Always
  • Win
  • Underdog

• I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.

  

  Nathaniel Buzolic
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Lifestyle

• I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Working

• My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Family
  • American

• I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Health

• Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • She
  • Powerful
  • Hair

• Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Time
  • Important
  • Family

• I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Family
  • Come
  • Doers

• For me, the terror of the zombie is that at any moment, your friend, your family, you neighbor, your teacher, the guy at the bodega down the street, can be revealed as the monster they've always been.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Family
  • Guy
  • Friend

• If I won a second Olympic title, maybe I would be tempted to go after a third.

  

  Ashton Eaton

• Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

  

  Dannie Abse
  • Soul
  • Singing
  • Spirit

• Working hard is way more fun. If you had to goof off 40 hours a week, you couldn't do it. It would drive you crazy.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Fun
  • Crazy
  • Working Hard

• My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Depression
  • Miracle
  • Recovery

• I wanted Dexter to have a family that could love him and understand him.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Family