Barbara Hutton Quotes
(On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4) I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
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Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going to work; they can't get used to you ignoring them. And work sometimes gets the message you're not as committed.
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I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.
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My mother and my sister are big Jon Snow fans.
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Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had a contract for my first novel - that was on my answering phone message when I got back from the hospital with my first child.
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My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
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Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.
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What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
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Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
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I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.
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I remember the first day of school my first year in the classroom. My stomach churned with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Could I do the job? Could I connect with the kids? Will there be the chemistry to build relationships and get the job done, or will I totally flop?
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No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
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So if I could just go back now to something which I am sure we should cover here regarding our original scenario: we have, in fact, four ways - four major potential lines of research.
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We need to make sure our children travel to see things. Not necessarily long distances but at least out of the neighborhood. On a train. A boat. An airplane.
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Tell, rather than write, because I have nothing to write with and writing is in any case forbidden. But if it’s a story, even in my head, I must be telling it to someone. You don’t tell a story only to yourself. There’s always someone else. Even when there is no one.
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(On her mother, who died when Hutton was 4) I hardly remember her, but I have missed her all my life.
