Nora Gallagher Quotes
Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
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My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama.
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
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People ask what I really did in the three years between 'The Dreaming' and 'Hounds of Love.' I spent it with my family, living a normal home life.
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I come from a family in which public service was something to aspire to.
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A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
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Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.
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I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.
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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.
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Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
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I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
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If you want to see mankind fully, look at a family. Within the family minds become organically one, and for this reason the family is total poetry.
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My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.
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The fact that a New Hampshire legislator's position is not seen as a career or a way of supporting a family has meant that it draws women. At times, I think men who might be looking for a paid career have known that they couldn't make one out of serving in the legislature. So there's a little more space for women.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
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If you were to ask any children of any politician, when you've been part of a political life, you are not on the sidelines. There is no such thing as a member of a political family who is only a spectator. You see the wheeling and the dealing. That doesn't intimidate me. I'll do a little of that myself, on behalf of my constituents.
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If poverty persists in America, it is not for lack of resources. We lack something else.
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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For some reason, when I get to the 200m, I'm always a little bit nervous.
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One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.
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Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
