Cousin Quotes - Page 9

• When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young whippersnapper and Howard was kind of an outlaw hero. I said to him - and it's on tape, a cousin of his filmed our meeting - I said, "If you write a book, I want to play you in a movie." He said, "Let's shake on it," and we did. Thirteen years later, there we were, making the movie.

  Rhys Ifans

  Book, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My aunt put my cousins into a childrens modelling agency, then my mum did it with us. Me and my sister got a few TV adverts, which was good pocket money. A director saw photos of me and asked me to do a short film.

  Sullivan Stapleton

  Aunt, Agency, Photo Of Me

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• A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.

  Gina McKee

  Father, Coal Miners, Generations

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

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• The first memory I have, anyway, I guess - I think it was my second birthday and the cake came out with the candles and I was very excited and I was, like, "Oh! A cake!" and then my cousin blew out the candles. I was so disappointed. It just broke my heart. And so that's stamped in my brain.

  Heath Ledger

  Memories, Heart, Thinking

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• The challenges that I face today are the same challenges we all face. Trying to balance your life between work, family, loved ones, your husband, your wife - boyfriend or girlfriend. If you have kids - balancing that, balancing your work with the time you spend with your kids. The idea of wanting to be a good parent and then the motivation to be a great parent. Whether you're black, white, any color. Rich, poor, regardless of religion, cousins of culture, we go through those. We have the same challenges.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Girlfriend, Motivation, Husband

  "Mythical Proportions: An Exclusive Interview With Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson". Interview with Matt Tuthill, www.muscleandfitness.com.

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• Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Thinking, Blood, Feelings

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors' first language was gestural and that the vocal version of language was a relatively recent development. My own guess is that vocal language began emerging about 200,000 years ago.

  Roger Fouts

  Powerful, Years, Atheism

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• Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

  Phil Donahue

  Religious, Moving, Ignorance

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• Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica. To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa carved as arrowheads. To name is to know and remember.

  Dana Gioia

  Real, Names, Stones

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.22, Macmillan

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• I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'

  Sampha

  School, World, Really Cool

  Interview with Ruth Saxelby, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2013.

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• While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

  Theophilus London

  Trying, Internet, Gang

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• They say sleep is the cousin of death, guess we related...
  Cause I'm the most slept on, and the most hated.

  Jayceon Terrell Taylor

  Rap, Sleep, Hip Hop

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• When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part of our heritage.

  Mario Batali

  Uncles, Children, Aunt

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January, 2004.

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• I have a ton of cousins on my moms side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.

  Maulik Pancholy

  Mom, Parent, Together

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• Indiscretion and wickedness, be it known, are first cousins.

  Ninon de L'Enclos

  Wickedness, Firsts, Known

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• My cousin just got married for the totally wrong reasons. She married a man for money. She wasn't real subtle about it. Instead of calling him her fiancé, she kept calling him her financee.

  Rita Rudner

  Real, Men, Calling

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• I've always thought darker characters were more fun to play. They're probably not any more complex or interesting than their good, law-abiding cousins, and I'd always tend to see things from their point of view.

  Aidan Gillen

  Fun, Character, Interesting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

  Max Lucado

  Anxiety, Twins, Imagine

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think I was 26, 27 in Vancouver. I woke up one day and I was like what am I doing? I've accomplished nothing and then so I moved to Toronto. I had a cousin here. And I just said all right I'm going to act and that was it. And I decided to do the work that I never did before. And here it is.

  Craig Olejnik

  Thinking, One Day, Accomplished

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

  Susan Cain

  Disappointment, Class, Personality

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.12, Penguin UK

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• I made films with my brothers and my cousins and if any of the films ever come to fruition my career will be in ruins because the acting, writing, and directing is so unbelievably, heinously bad. We once screened one for my grandfather, this film that we had painstakingly made over a couple of days when we were all 10 years old, and he sat there and he said, "This is the worst film I've ever seen." No sympathy whatsoever.

  Henry Lloyd-Hughes

  Brother, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was first sexually exploited when I was seven, by a distant cousin at a family wedding. Even after that I was routinely molested by older cousins and their friends. See, my innocence was taken away and I became mature at one bloody incident. I believe I never had a childhood. I grew up as an elderly person. And that's what my femininity brought upon me. Of course, in a patriarchal society, hijras' bodies are thought of as toys.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Taken, Believe, Childhood

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective mind, memoir means "recovery." When my agent and I started looking at small presses the possibility for my book, I realized most small presses were not publishing memoir, because they don't want to be associated with the genre that Mary Karr calls, half-facetiously, "literature's trashy cousin."

  Debra Monroe

  Memories, Book, Recovery

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are two kinds of systems in the world. There are many-party systems and there are two-party systems. And our English cousins, both England, Canada, Australia, India, tend to have majority rule elections, rather than proportional elections and that tends to lead them to have two sort of competing parties. So in England, you know, it's been, you know, since the '20's, that anybody other than Labor or the Conservatives have formed a government and gotten a Prime Minister in the Cabinet, and so on.

  John Aldrich

  Party, World, Election

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Spiritual methods are essential in Africa if you are going to survive politically. My cousin is the chief security officer for the president of Burkina Faso. He knows the key medicine man who works day and night to keep the president in power. These medicine men don't have offices downtown; they live in huts in remote areas, but that is where the real political power resides. A medicine man has no clue about the actual workings of domestic or international politics. All he knows is that a person has a seat of importance somewhere, and his job is to keep that person on that seat.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Spiritual, Real, Night

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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