Mum Quotes - Page 16

• I always assumed I'd be a terribly patient mum but it turns out I'm not!

  Olivia Colman

  Patient, Turns

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• Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.

  Eleanor Clift

  Worry, Secret, Enough

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• When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

  Arthur Darvill

  Theatre, World, Puppets

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

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• My mum brought me to my first job when I was 12. I started electrical work at her plant. She was an engineer, a technical expert, at one of the plants in the south, and in the summer she brought me in and I learnt how industrial things work: casting, electricity, maintenance, everything.

  Oleg Deripaska

  Summer, Jobs, Casting

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• My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I'd be like, 'Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!

  Agyness Deyn

  Dresses, Matching, My Sister

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

  Daisy Donovan

  Children, Clever, Not Good Enough

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• I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice.

  Lindsay Davenport

  Two, Choices, Parent

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• I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Strong Women, Two, House

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• I'm not scared of snakes, spiders or heights. I have three children; as a mum, you can't be afraid of things like that.

  Britt Ekland

  Children, Snakes, Three

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• I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Perfect, Want, Fairy Tale

  "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

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• I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Self Love, Looks, Tough

  "People think the book is a love-letter to Africa, but really it is a love-letter to my mother". Interview with Louisa Young, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2002.

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• Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

  Roger Federer

  Girl, Baby, Dad

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• I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

  Grant Bowler

  Dad, Self, Agents

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I deliberately went to boarding school. It was my choice. My mum was abroad and I wanted to wean myself off being dependent. It was a very important time for me to be able to create my own individual, independent life; just as a way of growing up.

  Alice Englert

  Growing Up, School, Independent

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• My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.

  Petra Stunt

  Crazy, Parent, House

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• As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.

  Rupert Everett

  Running, Kids, Parent

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• I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here.

  Tommy Flanagan

  Home, Phones, Scotland

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

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• I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

  David Cassidy

  Eye, Hair, Looks

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

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• Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit - and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

  Paloma Faith

  School, Thinking, Next Day

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• I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.

  Ryan Giggs

  Stars, Dad, Real

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• I feel like a semi-single mum.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Feels

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

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• It's very nice having my mum as my agent. You know that she's always doing what's best for you.

  Freddie Highmore

  Nice, Agents, Knows

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• My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

  Lianne La Havas

  Dad, Grandparent, Childhood

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• I won't eat veal, and my mum won't eat lamb, because she thinks it's a bit harsh to eat cute things.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Cute, Thinking, Lambs

  "My favourite table". Interview With Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2007.

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• I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Brother, Dad, Two

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