Family Quotes
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I think that my fate could be very different if there were no family and children.
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I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
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I wanted to write about extended family systems. You have people you can fall back on, and it's good. But what if you don't fit into what is expected of you?
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.
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My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.
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What I want in my career is different to what I wanted when I was 21. It's got to be something that keeps my family together, that allows me to be present in their lives.
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The first thing that a person finds in life and the last to which he holds out his hand, and the most precious that he possess, even if he does not realize it, is family life.
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I felt invisible in my family, and I wanted to be significant like my brothers were significant. I wanted my parents to pay attention, so I went out into the world with that driving me, that grasping, that seeking validation.
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I feel guilty: when I'm not golfing, I feel like I should be golfing. And when I'm golfing, I feel like I should be home working or spending time with the family. So it's a real conundrum.
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My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
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Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.
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I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
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I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.
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It helps you understand that Noah and his family were just like us. But probably much more intelligent.
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I love to go to the beach or stay at the pool with my girls - enjoy the sun and the water as much as I can, take rides with the bicycles, and spend time with my family.
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Before filming 'The Crown,' I couldn't care less about the royal family. But now... I'm obsessed.
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Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.
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I was kind of ashamed of my bourgeois family as a teenager, I guess - I had dreadlocks, shopped in thrift stores and pretended I had no money. At that time, I would have spat on a girl who was buying Yves Saint Laurent.
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My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.
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You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being, and that of your family and your country.
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I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
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I think this is the special character of the people from Seville. They have a really open spirit and receive everyone like family.
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I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.
