Jonathan Krisel Quotes

If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.

Jonathan Krisel

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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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• 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.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • House
  • Energy
  • Mom

• 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
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Life
  • Children
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Singing

• 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.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Years

• My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Great
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Mom
  • Kitchen
  • Kid

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• 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

• 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.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• When I was in high school, my mom worked at Bed, Bath and Beyond, so I was always there.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • School
  • High
  • Mom

• My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military.

  

  Camren Bicondova
  • College
  • Mom
  • Military

• My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Up
  • Family
  • Together

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Affection

• 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.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Good
  • Want
  • Mom

• Mothers are all slightly insane.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Mom
  • Insane
  • Mother`s

• There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Different
  • Women
  • Culture

• I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Bad
  • Mom
  • Morning

• Halloween was definitely the biggest holiday when I was a kid. We started making our Halloween costumes in August. Me and my mom. My mom was a single mom; it was just her and I.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Single
  • Mom
  • Holiday

• I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Up
  • Real
  • True

• It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Choices

• I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Night
  • Start
  • Apollo

• If you have, especially with siblings, something like the competition for mom's affection, it just never goes away.

  

  Jonathan Krisel
  • Mom
  • Affection
  • Siblings