Famous Quotes: Mother

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.
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In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.
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Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.
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In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.
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The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.
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I grew up singing. My mother was a music teacher.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
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My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
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I'm Method trained. How is this character like me? What does she think of her mother? What does her mother think of her? It's like construction, and then, yes, you hope you're talented and that the universe aligns and captures the kind of laborer's work you've done and whatever else sprinkles down on you, and it's all caught on film or onstage.
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My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
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The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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Daddy loves you, but he smacks you, and he can shout at you and smash things, but Daddy still loves you. So when you get into a relationship with someone who does all of that, why would it be unusual?
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Justifying faith is not a naked assent to the truths of the gospel.
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I'm a dad and that's pretty important.
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A little girl who finds a puzzle frustrating might ask her busy mother (or teacher) for help. The child gets one message if her mother expresses clear pleasure at the request and quite another if mommy responds with a curt 'Don't bother me - I've got important work to do.'
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You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
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I never let anyone pluck, including myself, unless my mom approves. She guards my eyebrows. She's like the eyebrow police!
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