Sandra Bullock Quotes
I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.
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I am a registered Democrat who is determined to return my party to the proletarian principles of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.
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I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.
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Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
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The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their bedtime stories read at a gentle, meandering pace. But I used to be too fast to slow down with the Brothers Grimm. I would zoom through the classic fairy tales, skipping lines, paragraphs, whole pages.
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My mom was a single parent.
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I would define the new aspects of fatherhood like this: It is 75 percent amazing and 25 percent demoralizing. I think any new parent can understand exactly what I'm talking about.
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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I have spent a lot of time with foster children over the years - kids for whom I have not necessarily acted as a foster parent.
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I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
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When I think of my childhood, I see my mother, the complete sixties parent, decked in purple frappe silk caftans, the acidic smell of newly stripped pine mingling with incense.
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I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.
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No matter what, if you're a parent, you have to make sacrifices.
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My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
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You can have a good moment with a parent you are estranged from, and you have a great moment, and then the next time you see them, everything's back to the way it was before and you guys are throwing knives at each other.
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I bought my parents some stuff. That feels kind of good to be able to do that. I got them a place in Florida. I think I'm allowed to say that - I hope my dad doesn't get mad at me. But I don't spend money on myself. I don't like myself enough yet. But the people I love, I like spending the cash on them.
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To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.
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Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends.
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I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.
