Bradley Denton Quotes
A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
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For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother.
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My family was very unorthodox. My mother was very eccentric and amazing. She always treated us like adults.
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In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.
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I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.
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My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mother's sisters loved each other intensely. The uncles loved each other intensely.
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I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.
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To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
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I make the best eggplant parmigiana. Except maybe my mother. The way she makes it is delicious. If I told you how, I'd have to kill you.
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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'
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From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
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My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.
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Faith is a real power, not just an expression of belief.
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For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
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When I put something on, and I stand up much straighter, that's when I love to wear clothes.
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In 2003 I was saying, where are the ties [between Iraq] and al-Qaida? Where are the ties to 9/11? I knew it; where the f**k were these Democrats who said, 'We were misled'? That's the kind of thing that drives me crazy: 'We were misled.' F**k you, you weren't misled. You were afraid of being called unpatriotic.
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A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
