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		Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
	
	  Sofia Villani Scicolone Sofia Villani Scicolone
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		My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.
	
	  Bonnie Tyler Bonnie Tyler
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		I'm a man that's unique to the world. That's kind of the star I was born under - on the cusp of Capricorn and Aquarius. My mother is Irish-American, and my father is Afro-Panamanian, so it's kind of been the story of my life to be a bridge between different cultures and different styles, and musically, that's between jazz and R&B.
	
	  Jose James Jose James
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		I think as any mother would be she was absolutely over the moon. And actually we had quite an awkward situation because I knew and I knew that William had asked my father but I didn't know if my mother knew.
	
	  Kate Middleton Kate Middleton
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		So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
	
	  Harold Brodkey Harold Brodkey
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		I believe in eating as nutritiously as I can all the time... My mother raised me on fresh - rather than processed - foods, and that's how I eat on a regular basis.
	
	  Malin Akerman Malin Akerman
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		The coast's a jungle of Moors, Turks, Jews, renegades from all over Europe, sitting in palaces built from the sale of Christian slaves. There are twenty thousand men, women and children in the bagnios of Algiers alone. I am not going to make it twenty thousand and one because your mother didn't allow you to keep rabbits, or whatever is at the root of your unshakable fixation." "I had weasels instead," said Philippa shortly. "Good God," said Lymond, looking at her. "That explains a lot.
	
	  Dorothy Dunnett Dorothy Dunnett
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		You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
	
	  Nancy O'Dell Nancy O'Dell
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		I've seen my own kids go through their own ups and downs, and as a mother, you want to make it better.
	
	  JoBeth Williams JoBeth Williams
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		I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
	
	  Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie
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		I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
	
	  Nate Robinson Nate Robinson
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		A baby was sleeping,Its mother was weeping,For her husband was far on the wild-raging sea.
	
	  Samuel Lover Samuel Lover
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		The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.
	
	  Ina Garten Ina Garten
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		What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
	
	  Laetitia Casta Laetitia Casta
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		My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
	
	  J. G. Ballard J. G. Ballard
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		Compared to some of our neighbours, it's not frowned upon to be a mother and work in France.
	
	  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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		The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
	
	  Lao Tzu Lao Tzu
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		It's difficult to be a mother and maintain a career as a performer - but then it's difficult in any industry.
	
	  Bonnie Langford Bonnie Langford