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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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.
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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 parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.
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I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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.
