Famous Quotes: Family

The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.
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Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
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We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.
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Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
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Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
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I've always known I wanted a family.
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The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.
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Although I am a young leader, I actually came to it strangely quite late. I have a different perspective, partly because of my family, partly because of what I did for ten years: negotiating trade deals, working out in Central Asia doing assistance projects.
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It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
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I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.
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Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.
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I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass.
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I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.
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Everything family does is reflection on the other people.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and have a family. Women are nearly always seen as victims.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
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You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.
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I came from a family of Marines into the family of Marines.
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My guess is that people look at me and project their own values - importance of family, ego is healthy but not the biggest thing. I don't know. I can't explain my popularity.
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