Mum Quotes - Page 3

• The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

  Willem Dafoe

  Art, Dad, Thinking

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• If I honour my needs first, I will be the best wife, the best mum, the best sister, the best friend. I have to come first, because then everyone benefits.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Sister, Wife, Needs

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• Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Morning, Dad, Book

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• My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

  Tony Abbott

  Mad, Parent, Generous

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• I'm amazed that things have panned out the way they have. I always say I'm so lucky, though my mum always says, 'You make your own luck.'

  Orlando Bloom

  Good Luck, Lucky, Way

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• Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

  Nick Hornby

  Dad, Years, Monkeys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.314, Penguin

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• My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

  Tony Blair

  Religious, Atheist, Dad

  "Tony Blair, on his faith and religious ideology". Interview with John Geiger, www.theglobeandmail.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving.

  Tori Amos

  Dad, Strict, Upbringing

  "Tori Amos: 'Anything is easier to talk about in music than in conversation'". Interview with Tim Teeman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2013.

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• In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.

  Adele

  Self Esteem, Years, People

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• If my mum thinks I'm acting like a diva she'll soon tell me off... She'll cut me down to size!

  Katherine Jenkins

  Cutting, Thinking, Acting

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

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• You do need parental guidance and I was in a great position with both my mum and dad. They split when I was a baby but even though I stayed with my mom they were both very much involved in my upbringing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mom, Baby, Dad

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• You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism - so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.

  Paloma Faith

  Believe, Issues, Feminism

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• My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thoughtful, Four, Busy

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

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• I could always sing, from a really young age, but my voice was really weird. I used to make my mum turn up the radio every day in our house. She was well into music so I got that from her.

  Ellie Goulding

  Voice, House, Age

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

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• Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines.

  Paloma Faith

  Dad, Eight, Years

  "Paloma Faith: 'I woo people with food, so I'm always cooking'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2013.

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• My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Dad, Childhood, Cooking

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• My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Musical, Theatre, Classic Movie

  "Jake Gyllenhaal: My family values" by Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2010.

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• Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.

  Geri Halliwell

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Want

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• I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.

  Susan Hampshire

  Teacher, Hard Work, People

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• I'm very sensitive. Because my mum was my primary emotional caregiver growing up, I found myself being pinned into dresses, darting her dresses, choosing her high heels for the evening or what to wear. I'm very much a mommy's boy.

  Tom Hardy

  Growing Up, Boys, Emotional

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• My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

  Salma Hayek

  Mother, Children, Father

  "Salma Hayek: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Dad, Teenager, Ipads

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Order, Shoes

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• My mum is incredibly intelligent.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Intelligent

  "Philip Seymour Hoffman: 'I was moody, mercurial... it was all or nothing'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2011.

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• My mum and I do cardio kickboxing classes together.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Class, Together, Kickboxing

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