Joan Chen Quotes
There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.
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A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
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Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.
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We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.
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I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.
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My mother is a proud Brazilian. I love visiting my family in Rio; the city and its people are so vibrant and amazing.
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My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remember going to the funeral parlour in France and being given a laminated menu of coffins, and thinking, surely there is an ice cream at the back of here!
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
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My mother's husband Harry Bloom was a writer, a novelist, a reporter, and an anti-apartheid activist.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
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I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I was raised by my grandparents, and my mother went back and got a degree.
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There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.
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I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.
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'I Just Might Pray' by The David Mayfield Parade has an upbeat tempo without being sugary sweet. 'I Just Might Pray' is an enjoyable track and is easily listened to. As a side note, the video for 'I Just Might Pray' is absolutely adorable.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.
