Alexander Mackendrick Quotes
Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.Alexander Mackendrick
Quotes to Explore
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My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.
Tasha Smith -
I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
Ingmar Bergman -
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.
Wendy E. Long -
My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone
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Homeschoolers are the ultimate do-it-yourselfers. They are self-motivated and self-directed, independent-minded and creative. They are not content to turn their education of their children over to the government.
Nancy Pearcey -
My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Walter Gropius -
We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.
Victoria Osteen -
I like children - fried.
W. C. Fields -
Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
Kate Hudson -
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Iris Johansen -
Common perceptions of female friendships are morning coffees discussing children, bags, periods and agreeing about the misdemeanours of men... mild, soft, nurturing relationships.
Samantha Harvey -
Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
Malcolm de Chazal -
My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
Caitlin Flanagan
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The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Bruno Bettelheim -
Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.
Pramila Jayapal -
Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.
Mal Peet -
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.
Charles Fourier -
Mavericks are nonconformists. They pride themselves on going it alone.
Jacqueline Leo -
Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.
Alexander Mackendrick