Mother Quotes
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I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.
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The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them.
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People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.
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Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.
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My mother and I were born in Mieres, Asturias, the most beautiful region you'll ever see in Europe and the home of Cabrales, a great blue cheese made in the Asturian mountains. When I was young, we moved to Barcelona. Whenever my mother was homesick for Asturias, she'd eat a little piece of Cabrales to bring her closer to Mieres.
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I am a step mother, so how children deal with divorce is something I've witnessed first hand and thought about a lot.
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I'm not really afraid of somebody who's very politically vocal. My mother is very strong, and I really believe in freedom of speech.
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It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.
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I've always wanted to have the ability to do what I want to do. And there are so many things that I want to do because I love acting, I love directing, I love producing, I love being a mother, I love being a wife. If I had to choose one, just would put me in the crazy house.
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Doing what we can to repair the world was instilled in me from an early age. I will never forget my siblings and me knitting squares for blankets to be sent to the troops during World War II. This was an inspiration from my mother.
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My mother would say, before I left the house, 'Remember Art, hugs are better than drugs.' And I believed my mother, I believed everything she said - until the first time I got high at a party. I leaned back, and I went, 'God, this is way better than when my Uncle Perry hugs me. What else has my mother been lying to me about?
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My mother taught Shakespeare and used to act.
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Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.
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A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.
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People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.
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Most people who go into show business want to go into show business. I wanted to be Porky Pig. That was my goal in life when I was five, to which my mother said, you can't be Porky Pig. You're Jewish! I don't think she realized what I wanted to do with the pig...I didn't want to eat him, I wanted to voice him.
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Know the difference between success and fame. Success is Mother Teresa. Fame is Madonna.
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The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.
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It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.
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The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.
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I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.
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I think English is a fantastic, rich and musical language, but of course your mother tongue is the most important for an actor.
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I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.
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Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.
