Jennifer Grey Quotes
I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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I love my real mom and dad; I love them both equally.
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I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.
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My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.
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For the naysayers that claimed 'American Family' revealed us to be vacant, unloving, uncaring morons of the materialistic '70s, this image will be proven wrong when Mom and Dad remarry... Make no mistake. This is not to emphasize the sadness of my demise but rather emphasize the love of my family and friends.
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I grew up watching my mom and dad selling rooms in our motels. We had CEOs coming to our house so that my dad could persuade them to have their executives stay in Hyatt hotels.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.
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I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.
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I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
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I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.
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My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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My dad is a football guy, not a music guy. He didn't totally understand when I decided to be a musician.
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My dad had a Vincent Black Shadow, which was a quite particular thing: it was the fastest cycle of its era... It sparked a world for me; when I was old enough, I got a motorcycle.
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My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
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I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs.
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Unlike most youngsters who have school as their 'second home' where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.
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Don't overpack your carry-on. You're never going to read that second book or that fourth magazine.
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'Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.'
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I love comedy and did a lot of comedy in college. I was in an improv comedy group with my friends.
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I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.
