Charlaine Harris Quotes

I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

Charlaine Harris

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• I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Reading
  • Vision
  • Daughter

• I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • House
  • Girl
  • Mom

• It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • People
  • Man
  • Daughter

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• When I had my first boy it all started and that male energy seemed to keep me awake but since my daughter, who's incredibly serene, I can't seem to stop sleeping because she's asleep all the time. It's a pattern.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Boy

• She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Mother
  • Kind
  • Daughter

• My voice has always been kind of distinct - even when I was four years old, my mom told me that people would be like, 'Why does your daughter always sound like a chain smoker?' I've always had this deep, raspy voice.

  

  Banks
  • People
  • Why
  • Mom

• When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Life
  • School
  • May

• My wife likes me to point out that she puts our daughter down to sleep more often than I do, which gives me time to write stupid books about it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • She
  • Wife

• I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Daughter
  • Example

• On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Shot
  • Taliban

• My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Daughter
  • Object
  • Flash

• When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • World
  • Business
  • War

• When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them: my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a lover, as a daughter.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Mother
  • Myself
  • Daughter

• I haven't given any thought to collaborating with my sisters. It would be great fun. My daughter Molly is a wonderful writer - someday I'd love to collaborate with her.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Fun
  • Thought
  • Wonderful

• My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Life
  • Important
  • She

• Derogatory against women - it seems that Trump is not too keen about having women around him, maybe except for his wife and daughter.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Women
  • Wife
  • Daughter

• I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Music
  • Daughter
  • Boots

• I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Family
  • Husband
  • Daughter

• We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Community

• I really, really like writing songs.

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Writing

• The only one who doesn't make mistakes is the one who doesn't do anything.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Writing
  • Mistake

• According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • America
  • Study
  • Latin

• I'm a middle-class former housewife who goes to my daughter's softball games.

  

  Charlaine Harris
  • Daughter
  • Softball