Saoirse Ronan Quotes
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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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If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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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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Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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When I'm singing, it's a mixture of my innocence in the projects, my mom and dad. It's all the good and the bad, the laughs and the frowns that I went through and seen other people go through. Then you be trying to write it. Whatever's coming out, you try and make it all cool.
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I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I just love kids. I always have.
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Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.
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I love working with kids and seeing the light come on when they realize they are smart. It's so beautiful to watch.
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My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.
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But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did.
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I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
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It's like some weird excuse for high school kids to vomit. It's not good. It's stupid. I'm sure that's not what St. Patrick's Day is supposed to be about, but who knows.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
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It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to the garden. We have hummingbirds, tons of bees, and many monarch butterflies. The kids love it! Though we're very laissez-faire with the garden and never put chemicals on it or even water it much!
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.
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Estrangement and belonging, an effect of distance and closeness at the same time.
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I'm all right, not as good as my mom is. Maybe because I don't have kids.
