Jonathan Krisel Quotes
If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I had a lot of energy, and my mom decided to look for a place where I can spend the energy, because I was jumping on the couch and furniture, and I was jumping on the top of the things in the house.
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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.
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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 mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.
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Men are what their mothers made them.
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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.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.
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My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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Mothers are all slightly insane.
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There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
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Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
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I never exercise, and I eat everything.
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Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
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I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.
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Male directors always project their own desire of women - how they want a woman to dress, to do her hair. With a woman director, it's more a projection of herself.
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If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.
