Brady Udall Quotes
She considered, maybe for the first time, how lucky she was to be able to pick up the phone and call her mother whenever she needed bad advice.
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
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I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
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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 know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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I came to America when I was 9. My mother brought me.
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I don't want to be an absent mother. Otherwise, why have children?
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I couldn't even go to the bathroom alone. My mother or a social worker always went with me.
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I had time with my mother, but I really lived with my father. One time he gave all his salary so I could travel to a training camp. He couldn't pay the rent, but he did that.
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
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It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by...' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too.
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Everything that went on in my life... it was super important for me to have Camden first. And by that I mean my son and to have that relationship with my son to give me that quiet confidence that I needed as a mother and as a woman. Now with Brooklyn, I am just so at ease; I am so comfortable.
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I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.
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For support, I fall back on my heart. Has a man any fault a woman cannot weave with and try to change into something better, if the god her man prays to is a mother holding a baby?
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What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
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Listen to advice, but follow your heart.
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I get a lot of advice from Mark Harmon, and I take it all to heart because I respect the heck out of him.
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When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship.
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I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
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I remember watching steak being cooked on TV and wanting to try it. As a special treat, my mother cooked it for me, and I thought this would be the time I would eat with a knife and fork. Alas, I ate it with chopsticks!
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The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.
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All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women that have emotions and have real-life thoughts.
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I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow.
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Wisdom is better than silver and gold
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She considered, maybe for the first time, how lucky she was to be able to pick up the phone and call her mother whenever she needed bad advice.
