Lela Rose Quotes
The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.
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My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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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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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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I always take off my makeup. My mother always told me to do this, and I never go to bed without doing it. I use a good moisturizer and Mario Badescu face wash.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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When I was really small, my mother had difficulty keeping me dressed, as I liked to be naked! I definitely had very strong ideas on what I wanted to wear. My favourite look was always Action Man and Spiderman. Now though, I really like beautiful clothes.
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How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?
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I have learned a great deal in my life, and DeMolay helped me to learn that character and integrity should be cornerstones in your life. As a Senior DeMolay, as a father, the best advice I could ever give would be to take the high road in life, and you will be able to build trusting relationships.
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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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Just being raised in a home where my mother, from as early as I can remember, always taught me to be thinking about other people first, basically that our service was going to be the measure of our success.
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I probably spend more time with my kids than the average stay-at-home mother.
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No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie hats? Would the Chia Pet even exist?
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My father was a particularly zealous Christian Scientist, but young Christian Science children, who have little choice but to believe what their parents are telling them, are taught that illness originates in errors in their parents' and, eventually, their own thinking.
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A brown lip liner will affect a red lipstick differently than a red lip liner.
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The wisest advice I ever received regarding the kitchen came from my mother: 'Do the dishes while you're cooking.'
