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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You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
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I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job.
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A historian is battling all the time to remember as much as possible.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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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.
