Sean Pertwee Quotes

Being a father is a surprise for me every day.

Sean Pertwee

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• About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Like
  • Surprise
  • Behave

• I liked the fact that my father had a lot of expectations from my brother. I probably wanted to be that person who he could be proud of.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Father
  • Proud
  • Brother

• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Life
  • Important
  • Father

• I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Work
  • Father
  • Simple

• I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Father
  • Roots

• The best live recordings capture elements of surprise onstage.

  

  M. Ward
  • Live
  • Best
  • Surprise

• My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Father
  • Mom

• My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Mind
  • Father
  • Parents

• I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Surprise

• I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Women
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Know
  • Enjoy

• Even though my parents separated, my mother was in love with my father and never re-married.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Father

• Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Want
  • Challenges

• I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me- I was a father.'

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Father
  • Words

• Suddenly she knew. She knew! Love. That was what she had that IT did not have. She had Mrs. Whatsit's love, and her father's, and mother's, and the real Charles Wallace's love, and the twins', and Aunt Beast's. And she had her love for them. But how could she use it? What was she meant to do?

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Real
  • She
  • Mother

• I didn't expect to be doing a whole bunch of Amber Browns. And because it was just one book, and the father had moved away, I didn't realize I was going to have to deal more with shared custody, divorce and all those issues.

  

  Paula Danziger
  • Book
  • Father
  • Divorce

• The mother cannot expect her daughter to understand the mysteries of housekeeping without education. She should instruct them patiently, lovingly, and make the work as agreeable as she can by her cheerful countenance and encouraging words of approval. If they fail once, twice, or thrice, censure not.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Work
  • She
  • Mother

• The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course, give them the feelings and manners of gentle folks.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • People
  • House
  • Giving

• We have a very interesting and very serious potential international partner.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Serious
  • Partner
  • International

• Being a father is a surprise for me every day.

  

  Sean Pertwee
  • Father
  • Surprise