Genie Francis Quotes
Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.
Genie Francis
Quotes to Explore
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I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.
Zara Larsson
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I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.
Sam Sheppard
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
Camille Paglia
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
Paloma Faith
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
Ted Olson
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I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.
Naveen Jain
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
Zach Johnson
The Fray
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone
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When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!'
Sally Field
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
Samuel Adams
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Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.
Zhang Zhidong
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
Ursula Burns
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My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
Warwick Davis
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When I first visited the Hospice in Milton, I had a pre-conceived idea as to what to expect. Far from being a clinical, depressing place for sick children, it was a home. Most importantly, it was a family home, a happy place of stability, support and care. It was a place of fun.
Kate Middleton
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I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.
Olivia Colman
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I don't claim any great experience or expertise.
Laura Moser
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I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.
Randeep Hooda
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My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones.
Katharine Graham
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Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
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I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she's from. It's almost like playing a child's game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me.
Edward Enninful
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Writing 'Hoop Roots' was a substitute or a surrogate activity. I can't play anymore - my body won't cooperate - so in the writing of the book, I was looking to tell a good story about my life and about basketball, but I was also looking to entertain myself the way that I entertain myself when I play.
John Edgar Wideman
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Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
Bella Abzug
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Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.
Genie Francis
