Esther Rantzen Quotes

I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.

Esther Rantzen

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• My family was musical on both sides. My father’s family had a famous flautist and a classical pianist. My mother won a contest to be Shirley Temple’s double — she was the diva of the family. At 8, I learned how to play guitar. I used to play songs from the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s in the kitchen for my grandmother.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Family
  • She
  • Mother

• I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Dad

• I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Family

• I've got a great life. I'm in love, I have a happy, wonderful, beautiful time with my marriage, and I have a beautiful home. I want to spend time here working and creating.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Looking and not finding is certainly one of the most frustrating ways to spend time.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Time
  • Loss
  • Frustrating

• I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Family

• Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Thinking
  • Live
  • Family

• My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Family
  • She

• I'm happy that I have my family, and I'm happy that I had Virginia, where I grew up, to retreat to any time I felt overwhelmed. Whenever there were times when I felt like the rug was being pulled out from under me and I was floating in this crazy space, I would stop and go back to that neighborhood and realize nothing's changed, really.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Happy
  • Neighborhood
  • My Family

• Fans aren't just fans... they're part of my family.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Fans
  • My Family

• I don't want to let any of my family down.

  

  Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
  • My Family
  • Don't Want

• We care if people like what we did. If you're just making records for yourself, why put them out and do all these interviews and do touring? I'm a huge music fan, and this is what I do with my artistic time. It's all I really do, except hang out with my family. I value human relationships, and it's a way for me to interact with the world and feel like I'm part of something.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Music
  • Records
  • Interviews

• Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

  

  Cary Grant
  • My Family
  • Runs
  • Gallops

• My family is my number one priority.

  

  Georgina Chapman
  • Priority
  • Number
  • My Family

• My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • God
  • Jews
  • My Family

• I need to work to support my family.

  

  Tori Spelling
  • Work
  • Support
  • My Family

• That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.

  

  Chad Pennington
  • Football
  • Challenge
  • My Family

• Going to Barca was a decision I took with my family. They helped me a lot. It's been a dream come true. I'm really happy.

  

  Neymar
  • Happy
  • Dream
  • Decision

• It's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.

  

  Tom Cavanagh
  • People
  • Nice
  • Actors

• I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' Dangler basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • Together
  • Guitar
  • Able

• Americans have their issues with skin colour, even within the black community, with light and dark skin; it's crazy - but no one's oblivious to it.

  

  Estelle
  • Black
  • Community
  • Issues

• James and I have similar tastes. We both have high tenor voices and write melodic songs. And we both really like the Kinks.

  

  Eric Johnson
  • Songs
  • Voices
  • Tastes

• We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional
  • Stress

• I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.

  

  Esther Rantzen
  • My Family
  • Spend Time