Brother Quotes - Page 10

• Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

  David Johansen

  Mother, Father, Years

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• Some people ask me whether I'm a 'mama's girl' or a 'papa's girl.' I'm nobody's girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Girl, Doors, People

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• I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.

  Jemima Kirke

  Fun, Boys, House

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

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• 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

  Zachary Knighton

  Friday, Monday, Morning

  "Happy Beginnings and 'Happy Endings' for Zachary Knighton". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. February 23, 2012.

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• I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

  John Mahoney

  Parent, Lessons, Want

  "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.

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• I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it, and I'd love to do more of it. I want to do action films. I want to go and hang off of wires, and jump off of bridges, and hang on bungee cords. I've always really loved it.

  Stana Katic

  Bridges, Wire, Want

  "Stana Katic Interview CASTLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 21, 2010.

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• Um, what I found though about the Christian Brothers is this: that they were certainly muscular.

  Thomas Keneally

  Christian, Found, Christian Brothers

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• Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.

  Logan Lerman

  Growing Up, My Best Friend, Normal

  "Get to Know Fall's Hot Guys!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. September 19, 2011.

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• All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.

  Ryan McGinley

  Adventure, People, Watches

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• I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

  Ryan McGinley

  Mom, Teenager, Kids

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• In course of time the Brothers Cowper removed the manufacture of their printing machines from London, to Manchester. There they found skilled and energetic workmen, ready to carry their plans into effect.

  James Nasmyth

  Machines, London, Printing

  James Nasmyth (2010). “James Nasmyth, Engineer: An Autobiography”, p.161, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'

  Chris O'Dowd

  Children, Thinking, Guy

  "Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Fall, Roles

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• The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers?

  Chief Seattle

  God, Men, White Man

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• The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.

  Boris Brasol

  Senior, Government, Two

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• Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

  Diana Lopez

  Girl, Mom, Strong

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• My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

  David Oyelowo

  Dog, Children, Dad

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• I was kind of an outcast in school 'cause I always kept to myself and was writing poetry and then going on tour with my brother band all the time, so kids didn't know what to make of me.

  Christina Perri

  Writing, School, Kids

  "Rising Star: Christina Perri". www.seventeen.com. December 6, 2010.

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• My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Book, Comic, Comic Book

  "FNL's Adrianne Palicki on learning to be a badass for Red Dawn and Wonder Woman". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2012.

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• I'm blessed to come from a family with five brothers. We're all physical and athletic and like to work out, like to be outside, like to throw the ball around. We spent our entire childhoods on some kind of corner or in a field. We still do a Turkey Bowl every Thanksgiving. It gets competitive, man. Bloody.

  Danny Pino

  Blessed, Men, Turkeys

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• I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

  Matthew Rhys

  Brother Sister, My Time

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• I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.

  Aly Raisman

  Blessed, Two, Parent

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• I heard Q-Tip on the Jungle Brothers' song 'The Promo.' It was very exciting. It was very new. The music and the culture around hip-hop was evolving. I think there's an emotional quality to their music and there's a vulnerability to the music. For me, A Tribe Called Quest was my Beatles.

  Michael Rapaport

  Song, Emotional, Thinking

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• My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.

  Nikki Reed

  Autism, Charity, Littles

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• I definitely think that females have a harder time. It's a lot harder to be a girl because you're always in your head. I've heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.

  Nikki Reed

  Girl, Football, Thinking

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

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