My Family Quotes - Page 12

• I am close - too close - with my family.

  Britt Robertson

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• I'm Winnie the Pooh - that's as sexy as I am. I meet ladies and they talk about their family and I talk about my family. It's about as sexy as a bag of Brussel sprouts.

  Bob Hoskins

  Sexy, Bags, Brussel Sprouts

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• Yes, I'm very close to my family. And being that close to your family, I think you also struggle with how to become your own person.

  Linda Cardellini

  Struggle, Thinking, Our Family

  Interview with Marc Hawthorne, www.avclub.com. January 18, 2008.

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• I've always tried to fit what I do professionally into my family, rather than the other way around.

  Adam West

  Way, Fit

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• If you earn my friendship, you are my family and I'll do anything for you.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

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• Humility was a cult in my family. I only got it out of my father by accident when he was very old that he had won an Olympic gold medal.

  Hugh Laurie

  Father, Humility, Gold

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• But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and strange new viruses. Each of us got our heart buried in six feet of African dirt; we are all co-conspirators here. I mean, all of us, not just my family. So what do you do now? You get to find your own way to dig out a heart and shake it off and hold it up to the light again.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Heart, Mean, Light

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• As I entered this world, I would leave behind the nurturing of my family and my home, but in another sense I would take their protection with me. The lessons I had learned, the feelings of groundedness and belonging that have been woven into my character there, would be my companions on the journey.

  Sidney Poitier

  Home, Character, Journey

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• Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Women, Love You

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Flower, Book, Cat

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.306, A&C Black

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• Dearest Charles-- I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start... I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Love, Writing, Italian

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• We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was terrified of unwittingly leaving behind a scrap of paper on which were written all my private desires and humiliations. The fact that no such scrap of paper existed, that I did not even keep a diary or write letters except bland, earnest, falsely cheerful ones to my family (We lost to St. Francis in soccer, but I think we’ll win our game this Saturday; we are working on self-portraits in art class, and the hardest part for me is the nose) never decreased my fear.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Soccer, Art, Writing

  Curtis Sittenfeld (2005). “Prep: a novel”

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• When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.

  Robert Frost

  Baseball, Waste, Poet

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• The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Childhood, Independence, Adults

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, Vintage

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• I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

  Kevin Spacey

  Real, Stupid, Uprising

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• It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

  Steven Spielberg

  Passionate, Scripts, Ifs

  "Steven Spielberg Says ‘Robopocalypse’ Will Be Set 15-20 Years In The Future, Center On Man Vs. Machine War" by Benjamin Wright, www.indiewire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• I love art more than anything in the world except for my family.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, World

  Sylvester Stallone's art goes on show – video, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2013.

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• My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That's a huge, huge thing.

  Gwen Stefani

  Husband, Priorities, Huge

  "Gwen Stefani Cover Shoot". www.elle.com. June 8, 2009.

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• I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

  Cat Stevens

  Space, Priorities, Looks

  "The Billboard Q and A: Yusuf Islam" by Nigel Williamson, Billboard Magazine, November 17, 2006.

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• I want to spend as much time as I can with my family, yet I'm aware of having to bring home the bacon.

  Dan Stevens

  Home, Want, I Can

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

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• Everybody sung in my family.

  Rod Stewart

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• I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

  Sting

  Want, Loser, Rejected

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• I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

  Angie Stone

  Always On The Go, Junk, Lasts

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• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. September 5, 2000.

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• My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

  Adora Svitak

  Senior, Persons, Happens

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