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CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS![]()
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JIM JARMUSCH![]()
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"
She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON![]()
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LYNN JOHNSTON![]()
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EDMUND WHITE![]()
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with...
JILL LEPORE![]()
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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PAULO COELHO![]()
In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain...
VIRAT KOHLI![]()
Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I...
ELIZABETH GILBERT![]()
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS![]()
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ...
PATTI SMITH I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON![]()
Bruce had been so ill, his father was very ill. And she had been, you know, she felt all of those aw...
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KELLY JONES![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father durin...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be po...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK![]()
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the mome...
JOHN SCALZI![]()
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation pro...
VERONICA ROTH My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD![]()
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a ...
TWYLA THARP![]()
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the...
CLIVE BARKER![]()
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad...
TRACY MORGAN![]()
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career...
SHERYL SANDBERG My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering hers...
CHARLES DANCE![]()
But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h...
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It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice...
SARAH DESSEN She was rigorous and had high standards because she believed everyone could do great work. But she r...
FELICIA LONDRE My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
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She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h...
CHIEF JOSEPH![]()
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a...
DONATELLA VERSACE![]()
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam...
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LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfectio...
ROBERT LEFKOWITZ Everyone in my family pretty much has gone here so it seemed like the only option. I think (Lott) al...
JENNIFER HOWARD My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour ...
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My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i...
NATALIE MERCHANT My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of...
RONDA ROUSEY When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN She was in a very small town in Bavaria and after the war, when things settled down, she became an i...
ROBERT NOLAN I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
PATRICIA HEATON My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.
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While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil...
BILL MURRAY![]()
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music...
RUBY ROSE My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
DEAN STOCKWELL My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
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My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is r...
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FRANCES KRUG![]()
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to ...
MARC JACOBS I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL![]()
My mother was very ill with terminal cancer she was given a few weeks to live, but she started speak...
JOEL OSTEEN![]()
Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said...
STUART HILL![]()
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers...
JOAN SUTHERLAND![]()
When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach...
JANE AUSTEN![]()
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.&#...
ALBERT BROOKS My mother only worked, and when she retired, she had a nervous breakdown.
BETTY LUCARELLI Lyonesse stared wide-eyed at Lynet’s hand and swallowed hard. Lynet realized that she was still ho...
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, ...
WAYLON JENNINGS![]()
My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and vo...
CHRISTINA HENDRICKS![]()
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a b...
MICK JAGGER![]()
My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always ther...
LEBRON JAMES My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so ou...
LUANNE RICE![]()
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou...
KERRI WALSH JENNINGS![]()
[...] I could cease to be a Grey and take the name of my mother should have had before she was marri...
CASSANDRA CLARE My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY![]()
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was...
BLAKE LIVELY My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER![]()
I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, ...
PHILIPPA GREGORY I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in t...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE![]()
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I asked my mother, 'Who are those people?' She said she didn't know. She was happy because the husba...
ELIZABETH NSELE![]()
My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher edu...
GERTRUDE B. ELION![]()
She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (...
CHIEF JOSEPH I loved Duncan and I loved being his mother but I wasn't sure I was prepared to be only his mother. ...
JENNIFER BELLE My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.
CHERYL LADD![]()
I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin...
BRAD PAISLEY![]()
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.
HENNY YOUNGMAN![]()
She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS![]()
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY![]()
My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap da...
BILLY CRYSTAL I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vamp...
RADHA MITCHELL She smiled all the time even during the bad times. She always had a smile. She lifted me up and the ...
JACQUELINE BAKER![]()
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol...
DIANE VON FURSTENBERG![]()
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me ab...
CANDACE CAMP![]()
My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhanc...
FRANCOIS NARS She and my dad were great gardeners. They always had gardens. It was fantastic.
EDITH JOHNSON Her mother said she was abducted a few days before in Houston, Tex., and that Scout basically got aw...
MANON CARRIE Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON![]()
My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them.
My mother does not own m...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH![]()
My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
JACLYN SMITH
CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph ... JOHN H. JOHNSON Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small n...
JIM JARMUSCH
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON
That's what my mother did. And my father was the first person she'd met who treated her kind... LYNN JOHNSTON
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. JAMES CAMERON
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... EDMUND WHITE
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... JILL LEPORE
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
Her heart had already been broken many times over, and yet she still believed she was destined to me... PAULO COELHO
In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain... VIRAT KOHLI
Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I... ELIZABETH GILBERT
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property... JOAN RIVERS
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... PATTI SMITH I was born into the Chicago branch of Negroland. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician, and for som...
MARGO JEFFERSON
Bruce had been so ill, his father was very ill. And she had been, you know, she felt all of those aw... BLYTHE DANNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father durin...
GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE The difference between our family and other poor families was that my mother actively chose to be po...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicag...
WESLEY CLARK
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the mome... JOHN SCALZI
She has been to the compound before. She remembered this hallway. She knows about the initiation pro... VERONICA ROTH My mother got to read the book in print ... before she died and she was pleased with it.
KARLA REINHARD
My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a ... TWYLA THARP
I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career... SHERYL SANDBERG My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering hers...
CHARLES DANCE
But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h... STEVE MARTIN
It's not forever', she'd said, but to my mother, it might as well have been. She had make her choice... SARAH DESSEN She was rigorous and had high standards because she believed everyone could do great work. But she r...
FELICIA LONDRE My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column...
SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a go...
MAX VON SYDOW
She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times by Rafael that if she left him that h... CHIEF JOSEPH
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... DONATELLA VERSACE
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother cam... FRANCESCA ANNIS In the teahouses one could hear the most absurd stories, such as how a in a certain place a huge spi...
LAO SHE During my childhood I didn't need to hear stories about evil ogres eating children and so forth; the...
LAO SHE I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfectio...
ROBERT LEFKOWITZ Everyone in my family pretty much has gone here so it seemed like the only option. I think (Lott) al...
JENNIFER HOWARD My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour ...
SIRIO MACCIONI
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... NATALIE MERCHANT My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of...
RONDA ROUSEY When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN She was in a very small town in Bavaria and after the war, when things settled down, she became an i...
ROBERT NOLAN I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
PATRICIA HEATON My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.
DONALD E. WESTLAKE
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil... BILL MURRAY
My mom is a painter and an artist. She would play music, and she always had very good taste in music... RUBY ROSE My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
DEAN STOCKWELL My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN
My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is r... AERIN LAUDER My mom always said she wanted to get through life without ever learning how to use a computer. But p...
FRANCES KRUG
My grandmother was amazing. She completely believed in me and was very encouraging. She would go to ... MARC JACOBS I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL
My mother was very ill with terminal cancer she was given a few weeks to live, but she started speak... JOEL OSTEEN
Thanks, Dad," she whispered in his ear. Then recovering her composure, she knelt before him and said... STUART HILL
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... JOAN SUTHERLAND
When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach... JANE AUSTEN
My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.&#... ALBERT BROOKS My mother only worked, and when she retired, she had a nervous breakdown.
BETTY LUCARELLI Lyonesse stared wide-eyed at Lynet’s hand and swallowed hard. Lynet realized that she was still ho...
GERALD MORRIS
Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, ... WAYLON JENNINGS
My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and vo... CHRISTINA HENDRICKS
My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a b... MICK JAGGER
My mom and I have always been there for each other. We had some tough times, but she was always ther... LEBRON JAMES My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so ou...
LUANNE RICE
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou... KERRI WALSH JENNINGS
[...] I could cease to be a Grey and take the name of my mother should have had before she was marri... CASSANDRA CLARE My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
BEVERLY CLEARY
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was... BLAKE LIVELY My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER
I would play ball with Catherine, and hide and seek: Not a very challenging game in an open meadow, ... PHILIPPA GREGORY I just feel so blessed to have had the time that I had with my mother. She made it so impactful in t...
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE
She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was... J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I asked my mother, 'Who are those people?' She said she didn't know. She was happy because the husba...
ELIZABETH NSELE
My father emigrated from Lithuania to the United States at the age of 12. He received his higher edu... GERTRUDE B. ELION
She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (... CHIEF JOSEPH I loved Duncan and I loved being his mother but I wasn't sure I was prepared to be only his mother. ...
JENNIFER BELLE My mother could do absolutely anything. She was like Martha Stewart before such a thing existed.
CHERYL LADD
I first heard it on a demo right before my aunt died. And then she died, and it was the hardest thin... BRAD PAISLEY
She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face. HENNY YOUNGMAN
She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous... PATRICK ROTHFUSS
My Aunt Helen was my favorite person in the whole world. She was my mom’s sister. She got straight... STEPHEN CHBOSKY
My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap da... BILLY CRYSTAL I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vamp...
RADHA MITCHELL She smiled all the time even during the bad times. She always had a smile. She lifted me up and the ...
JACQUELINE BAKER
Eighteen months before I was born, my mother was in Auschwitz. She weighed 49 pounds. She always tol... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me ab...
CANDACE CAMP
My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhanc... FRANCOIS NARS She and my dad were great gardeners. They always had gardens. It was fantastic.
EDITH JOHNSON Her mother said she was abducted a few days before in Houston, Tex., and that Scout basically got aw...
MANON CARRIE Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON
My mother does not own my hands, though she works hard to train them. My mother does not own m...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful. JACLYN SMITH
If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for eac... 
I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like ... 
The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has ... 
The more severely he struggles to hold on to the primal face-to-face relation with God, the more ten... 
A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many p... 
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. 
Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. 
Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came fr... 
I'm a real pussy cat -- with an iron tail. 
As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for... 
I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left. 
The path of specialization leads away from the ordinary and concrete acts of understanding in terms ... 