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• Acting is our job, not talking about it. In France, they know me like I belong to their family. I go somewhere and I feel like Im sometimes the aunt, the grandmother, the mother, the sister. They all know me. But its not supposed to be that way.

  Carole Bouquet

  Mother, Jobs, Talking

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• I help out at Tall Trees, which my aunt set up on the Central Coast. Its where intellectually impaired young people can paint. Their artworks sent to hospitals all over Australia to brighten up their rooms.

  Jessica McNamee

  Australia, People, Tree

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• I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt, who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and a few others.

  B. B. King

  Mother, People, Church

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• My parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles were all funny, and I felt that energy, that delivery, that timing, that sarcasm. All that stuff seeped into my brain.

  Jeff Ross

  Uncles, Sarcasm, Grandparent

  "Comedy, Then and Now: Laughing With the Legends of Stand-Up From the 1800’s to 2010" by Steve North, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 6, 2010.

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• My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Mother, New York, Uncles

  "'Grey's Anatomy' star wishes she could gain weight. And kiss Angelina". Playboy Interview, featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com. December 07, 2006.

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• For young people, it doesn't matter so much, but when you're older, less is definitely more - too much make-up can give you the 'eccentric Aunt Sally' look!

  Lulu

  People, Giving, Eccentric

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• But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  War, Future, Men

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.144, Penguin

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• In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

  Paul Gillmor

  Oil, Middle East, Conservation

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• My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.

  Laura Linney

  Sweet, Remember, My Family

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• My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

  Dolly Parton

  Looks, Paper, Toilets

  Dolly Parton, Randy Schmidt (2017). “Not Dumb, Not Blonde: Dolly In Conversation”, p.86, Omnibus Press

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• Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

  Juan Cole

  People, Middle East, Arab Israeli Conflict

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• Her aunt Sol had once told Shai to smile at the worst insults and snap at the minor ones. That way, no man would know your heart.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Heart, Men, Way

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.36, Macmillan

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• The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Naps, Romance, March

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.598, e-artnow

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• The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

  Sandra Lerner

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Intelligent

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• When a homemaking aunt scolds a niece for following her evangelistic passion instead of domestic pursuits, her reply is interesting. First, she clarifies that God's individual call on her doesn't condemn those in more conventional roles. Then, she says she can no more ignore the cry of the lost than her aunt can the cry of her child.

  George Eliot

  Children, Niece, Passion

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• Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, Dog, Brother

  "The world according to Kurt". Interview with Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail (Toronto), October 11, 2005.

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• By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.

  James Agee

  Summer, Mother, Quilts

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.15, Penguin

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• I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

  Alcee Hastings

  Organization, Leader, Middle East

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• After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

  Wilfred Owen

  Reading, Fighting, Years

  Wilfred Owen (1998). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had, but Aunt Alexandra was of the opinion, obliquely expressed, that the longer a family had been squatting on one patch of land the finer it was.

  Harper Lee

  Land, People, Opinion

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Believe, East, Limits

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• Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don't forget indigestion. I wasn't different from anyone else: There sat the 18-pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Thanksgiving, Suicide, Children

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• My mother wasn't strong like my aunt. She was just very passive.

  Tyler Perry

  Mother, Strong, Passive

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• It was an emotional roller coaster - going from Christmas, then your aunt dies, and then all the stats come out and you might get all these records. I've been asked, 'How do you feel' Tired. I'm really blessed we do have this week off where I can kind of grab a hold back to reality.

  Shaun Alexander

  Blessed, Tired, Reality

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• I was a really picky eater as a child. Because I was obsessed by Popeye, my mum and aunts would put my food in a can to represent spinach and we'd hum the Popeye tune and then I'd happily eat it.

  Paul O'Grady

  Children, Tunes, Obsessed

  "Paul O'Grady: 'You could torture me on the rack and I'd still refuse to eat balut'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2011.

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