My Family Quotes - Page 5

• Food is a complicated subject for me. Food brings joy, satisfaction, and conflict. Eating disorders plague my family. Their consequences have been painful, expensive, violent, and deadly. You haven't lived till you've watched a woman die of starvation.

  Myriam Gurba

  Joy, Eating Disorder, Conflict

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• I do a lot of cooking. I've always cooked for my family and my father and I cooked together. It's just one of the things I like to do. If you came around my house for dinner, you'd watch me cook as we sat around the kitchen and cooked and talked. For me, that's centralised... friendship and family around food and cooking.

  Brad Lewis

  Father, House, Cooking

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• I think everyone deals with things in their own way. Everybody's different. My family are all different. None of us are the same. We all deal with different things in different ways. I think it's about knowing yourself, what pushes your buttons, and figuring out how to work with yourself.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Different, Know Yourself

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• Portland has influenced me in that it is very much where I feel most "at home" in the world. I grew up there. My family is there, my closest friends are there; my favorite bookstore, record store and coffee joint are there. Portland changed a lot during the eight years I lived in Bellingham but, every time I went back, it always felt like home.

  Kasey Anderson

  Coffee, Home, World

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• I was raised to be modest to the point of fanaticism. In my family, we don't talk about ourselves to each other. Vanity is considered the worst possible sin. I've gotten better about having to describe things. If you're going to make a record and people are going to write about you, it's your responsibility to answer questions. It's validating - I'm just very clumsy.

  Neko Case

  Writing, Responsibility, People

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• It will be a great success to me if my family comes into the restaurant and says that they're proud of what I've done, they're proud of the way I've represented the De Laurentiis name, and that they love my food. That is the moment of pure pride for me.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Pride, Done, Proud

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• For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

  Margaret Cho

  Culture, Youth, Korean

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• I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Mother, Father, Land

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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.

  Nick Clegg

  Years, Work Out, Perspective

  The Economist interview, www.economist.com. March 11, 2010.

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• In my family, we were Americans, we were Republicans and we were Methodists.

  Hillary Clinton

  Republican, Methodists

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• My granddad was an evangelist, and my grandma, she was as tough as nails. She watched 'American Bandstand' every day when she was in her 80s, 90s. She loved rock music. I never had anyone in my family that was anti-rock n' roll.

  Alice Cooper

  Grandma, Rocks, Nails

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• My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Beautiful, Eye, Night

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• They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Movie, Jobs, Writing

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• My humanitarian work evolved from being with my family. My mom, my dad, they really set a great example for giving back. My mom was a nurse, my dad was a school teacher. But my mom did a lot of things for geriatrics and elderly people. She would do home visits for free.

  Cat Cora

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

  "Chef Cat Cora says "Bon Appetit" at Sundance". Interview with Jane Clark, www.reuters.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

  Billy Corgan

  Class, Middle, Backgrounds

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• All I care is that my family, and my loved ones, understand me. Or that they understand me to a degree - I don't understand me very much. And I don't need the world to understand me. That is the most egocentric thing.

  Andrea Corr

  Degrees, Needs, World

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• Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Hollywood, Backdrop, Knows

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• The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it? Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.

  Rachel Cusk

  Important, Fundamentals, Emotion

  "Rachel Cusk: A fine contempt". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2009.

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• I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams.

  Miley Cyrus

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Daughter

  "Miley Cyrus Plans to Write Memoir". Disney Book Group Statement, www.reuters.com. April 23, 2008.

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• I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

  Richard M. Daley

  Family, Done, Phases

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• That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

  Eric Davis

  Kissing, Negativity, Atmosphere

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was the oldest of the children in my family. I had to do a lot of diaper-changing and lunch-making. I was taking my little sister to ballet, picking up my brother, sort of being a super-nanny.

  Vin Diesel

  Brother, Children, Lunch

  "Vin Diesel: I Want To Be A Good Dad". "Parade" Interview, parade.com. August 25, 2008.

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• I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.

  Celine Dion

  Years, Kitchen, Tables

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• I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

  Celine Dion

  Husband, Son, Giving

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• When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Brother, Cousin, Children

  "Kirsten Dunst Relies on Intuition and Years of Experience to Serve the Role". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. November 2, 2011.

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