Family Quotes
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My sister's a musician. Everyone else in our family, it's either academics or artists of one kind or another. And those are the people that I think I like to hang out with, too. I think, you know, they're always interesting; they lead interesting lives, and I think they're important for everyone to read about because everyone is an artist in a way.
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I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.
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I always knew I was going to be a family man.
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My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion.
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I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.
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My family was always really encouraging, but acting was always something I thought was a bit of a pipe dream.
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Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.
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I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.
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I'm part of a really big family.
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I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life.
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I mean, it’s not as though Radio 4 can put a person in a good mood; all it does is make me feel depressed about the economy and calcify my belief that everything I’m feeding my family is poisoning them. Still, I stick with it because it helps me have something to talk about at dinner parties.
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Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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'You've never heard of Paul Revere?' 'No.' 'Lucky man, Sharpe. He called my father a traitor, and our family called Revere a traitor, and I rather think we lost the argument.'
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I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.
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I think actors who know their job know that's how you do it. You don't show up and make people miserable. That poor grip who's standing there, he just wants to feed his family. He doesn't need to hear about your psychosis on life and love and death.
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Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.
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'Gold' is about being appreciative and grateful of your life, your family, and the love in it.
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I don't come from a creative background. I don't know anyone in my family who is a musician or actor or singer. It's a lot of teachers, lawyers. Professional stuff like that.
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And more so now, since having a family - I don't seek out any other acceptance.
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I come from making money in the streets. The streets all I know. All my family is still in the streets. So, it's going to be hard to pull me right back into that. When I ain't doing no shows four days out of the week, I may be in my hood or at my grandma's house in the hood. But yes, I got a kid. I got to get more serious about the music so he don't get dragged into that life.
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The family is inclusive of not just your genetic family, but the people that you meet along the way.
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I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.
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The older I get, the more special time with family gets.
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The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.
