Anne Tyler Quotes
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.Anne Tyler
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
Ed Westwick -
My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.
H. Robert Horvitz -
When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
Candace Cameron Bure -
I moved to Lucerne, where I have lived happily with my family ever since.
Carl Spitteler -
I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
I definitely understand what it's like not having family around when you want them there, but you don't live in the same city.
Vanessa Morgan
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara -
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.
Yancy Butler -
Instead of getting angry at somebody for opposing you on something, you're just praying for them. You just pray blessings on them, blessings on their family.
Sam Brownback -
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
Barbara Bush -
My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
Samuel Barnett -
I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
Irina Shayk
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
Carine Roitfeld -
Most of my family doesn't speak English. It's so important for the baby. He's going to know all his American roots, but he also needs to know about his Brazilian side.
Camila Alves -
To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
Ted Allen -
I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.
Cam -
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
Kary Mullis -
I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.
Narendra Modi -
Turkey is a model of economic and social development, especially in terms of human resources and regional cooperation.
Victor Ponta -
It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.
Felix Frankfurter -
The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
Kapil Dev -
I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't anticipate is that when every actor has to sing a different part and then do all their choreography on the same beat or on the same word, it's really hard.
Jason Moore -
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
Anne Tyler