Lucy Punch Quotes

My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.

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• A loving mother–son relationship is always a plot or outwitting of some kind. 'Don't tell anyone, but...' my mother was always saying to me – when I wasn't saying it to her.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Mother
  • Relationship
  • Son

• My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Up
  • Work
  • Thoughts

• I grew and learned, journeyed and understood, that someone who is afraid of failing won't get anywhere, and someone who dares to do it runs the risk of failure if they don't learn, correct their mistakes, and get back up.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Up
  • Risk
  • Failure

• Ricky Martin is one of the artists I wanted to be growing up.

  

  Maluma
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Growing Up

• I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Family
  • Book

• I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I always tell young actors to have a back-up. You don't want to find yourself at the age of 30 still struggling to make a living out of acting.

  

  Rachel Ward
  • Up
  • Age
  • Acting

• We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Innovation

• My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Baby

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Growing
  • Matter
  • Grandfather

• I married a man whose Hindu father grew up in the rural north of India and whose Jewish mother grew up in the Bronx.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • People
  • Up
  • Football

• If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Up
  • God
  • Greatest

• There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Mother
  • Mom
  • Sleep

• I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• Growing up a preacher's kid wasn't the easiest thing. Everybody's always watching you to see how you'll behave - or misbehave.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs go up, they'll price their products accordingly.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Up
  • Looks
  • Price

• As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make the wrong choice, if they feel you are trying to shape the character in a way that suits you. It rings false immediately. People can sense when you're being cynical or schematic.

  

  Peter Morgan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Character

• What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • America
  • Happened

• Improving the opportunities across the board is extremely important to sustain the legitimacy of wealth. If a whole horde of people, whole sections of society don't feel they have the opportunities, then the focus is going to be on those who have it and who have made it and say that is illegitimate.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Important
  • Society

• I'm not Tyler Perry. I'm not Dino De Laurentis. I think it's a bit much to put one's name in front of the film. It makes me uncomfortable.

  

  Lee Daniels

• Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.

  

  Allyson Schwartz
  • Small
  • Community
  • Innovation

• My mother loved Gene Wilder when I was growing up, so I used to watch all his movies with her. I just adore him.

  

  Lucy Punch
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  • Mother
  • Growing