My Cousin Quotes - Page 3

• The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

  Napoleon III

  Cousin, Mad, Politics

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• One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.

  Eula Biss

  Country, Cousin, Fear

  "No-man’s-land". www.believermag.com. February, 2008.

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• So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

  Joely Richardson

  Cousin, Pride, Thinking

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

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• I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh, you're missing out on the high school experience," so I'd go with my cousins to parties where there would be a keg and people doing body shots and playing quarters. I was like, What a waste of time. I didn't want to be doing E [ecstasy] and making out with a guy three years older than me who's a loser.

  Jessica Alba

  Cousin, Party, School

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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• Acting as a profession came to me by chance: in 1946, after the war, I was having lunch with my cousin, who was the Italian ambassador, and he asked, 'What are you going to do now you're out of uniform?' I said, 'I'm pretty inventive, and I can imitate people,' and he said, 'Have you thought about being an actor?'

  Christopher Lee

  Inspirational, Cousin, War

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• And," added Mikey. "she's my sister." The others looked at him for a moment, and broke out laughing. "Yeah, yeah," Squirrel scoffed, "and the McGill is my cousin." Now Allie burst out laughing, which made Mikey more annoyed. "If the McGill was your cousin," Mikey said, "I can guarantee he'd disown you.

  Neal Shusterman

  Cousin, Squirrels, Laughing

  Neal Shusterman (2011). “Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

  William Shakespeare

  Cousin, Father, Please Me

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.106, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Who's that new guy with the snooty accent who came out and talked to the police?" Evan persisted. "He looks like some kind of male model." "That's just my cousin Ian," Amy explained. "Not much of a family resemblance," Evan noted sourly. "He's like a twenty-fifth cousin, ten times removed." Evan was not satisfied.

  Gordon Korman

  Cousin, Guy, Police

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• I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

  Lauren London

  Girl, Summer, Mom

  "Lauren London Exclusive Interview: ‘Under My Skin” (Part 2)". Interview with Kathleen Cross, kathleencross.com. June 2, 2011.

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• My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.

  Lea Michele

  Mother, Cousin, Father

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.

  Queen Latifah

  Cousin, Hurt, Home

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

  Ester Dean

  Cousin, School, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.

  Ja Rule

  Cousin, Play, Stuff

  "The Real World of Ja Rule". Interview with Zack Etheart, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Most of my cousins are boys, so I'm used to being around boys.

  Michelle Ryan

  Cousin, Boys, Used

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• i was raped, too sexually assaulted in seventh grade, tenth grade. the summer after graduation, at a party i was 16 i was 14 i was 5 and he did it for three years i loved him i didn't even know him he was my best friend's brother, my grandfather, father, mommy's boyfriend, my date, my cousin, my coach i met him for the first time that night and- 4 guys took turns, and- i'm a boy and this happened to me, and- ...i got pregnant i gave up my daughter for adoption... did it happen to you, too?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Summer, Daughter, Cousin

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• Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

  Anne Fortier

  Cousin, Worry, Police

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.70, Ballantine Books

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• My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass. - my hometown - right in the middle of our old neighborhood downtown when a homeless couple started a fire to keep warm and the entire building went up. My cousin died trying to save homeless people who had already left the building.

  Denis Leary

  Cousin, Couple, Fire

  "Now on DVD: Denis Leary's documentary 'Burn' shows unique dangers Detroit firefighters face" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2013.

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• When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

  Martin Amis

  Cousin, Memories, Book

  "Experience". Book by Martin Amis, www.theguardian.com. 2000.

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• God, you Jews are truly exotic." Exotic? She should only know the Greenblatts. Or Mr. and Mrs. Milton Sharpstein, my father's friends. Or for that matter, my cousin Tovah. Exotic? I mean, they're nice, but hardly exotic with their endless bickering over the best way to combat indigestion or how far back to sit from the television set.

  Woody Allen

  Cousin, Father, Nice

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• I have always loved children. I've been fantasizing about motherhood since I was probably 2 ½. I loved to babysit my cousins, and nieces, you know.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Cousin, Children, Niece

  Source: seevanessacraft.com

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• As you may know from my life story, my cousin who was my soul mate went to a public school. And he died of AIDS. Would I and my brother have been able to resist the lure of drugs in the surrounding schools? Who knows.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Cousin, Brother, School

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I can sit underneath the shed with all my family, my cousins, and everything, and just be like, "Yeah, this is what it's about - just sitting with people you love and hanging out."

  Channing Tatum

  Cousin, People, Sitting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Are you going to give a speech?' she asked gaily. He gave a choked laugh. 'Of course not,' he said. 'Not for ages.' 'My cousin Davey gave one on his very first day!' ... 'In the Lords, I remember. It was about how he didn't like strawberry jam.' 'Be nice, Charles! It was a speech about fruit importation, which I admit devolved into something of a tirade.' She couldn't help but laugh. 'Still, you could talk about something more important.' 'Than jam? Impossible. We mustn't set the bar too high, Jane.

  Charles Finch

  Cousin, Nice, Giving

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• I've loved singing since forever. Whether it was with my sisters while cleaning the kitchen, putting shows on for my stuffed animals, writing songs about my stuffed animals, starting an a capella group with my cousins while on vacation, or awkwardly singing along to karaoke tracks alone in my bedroom - singing always found a way into my life.

  Kina Grannis

  Song, Cousin, Writing

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