My Sister Quotes - Page 32

• I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons

  Marvin Hamlisch

  Teacher, Piano, Age

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• I'm four and a half years older than my sister - it's an interesting age difference. Growing up it feels like a big rift. Then you get older and you realize it's not. But for a while there, we really didn't have much to do with each other - mostly because I should have been a better older brother. I'm making up for lost time. I want that in print so she can read it.

  Peter Vack

  Brother, Growing Up, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or for the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap, and goes for a long walk.

  Frank McCourt

  Brother, Jobs, Dad

  "Sorry for Your Troubles" by Frank McCourt, www.newyorker.com. June 10, 1996.

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• Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

  Emily Bronte

  Names, Hereafter

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.461, Penguin

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• My parents, God bless 'em, were very supportive of me and my decision to pursue acting. Their dream for me and my sister was that we graduate from college. And as soon as I fulfilled that, they were extremely supportive of what I wanted to do next. I will always be grateful to them for that, because I wouldn't be where I am today without their help and encouragement.

  Michael Ealy

  Dream, Encouragement, Grateful

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I can imagine moving out to the seaside at some point. I like Brighton, my sister lives there. I'm a seaside boy and whenever I go there, I find myself writing songs about it.

  Marc Almond

  Song, Moving, Writing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I remember as a child I just would copy everyone else's handwriting, and now I have sort of a version of my sister's handwriting. And I feel like - sometimes I feel that way for my voice.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Children, Voice, Handwriting

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.

  Max Walker

  Stage, Mum, Bulletproof

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

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• I was an only child until I was 11 years old, which is when my sister was born. So for 11 years, it was just me.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Children, Years, Only Child

  Interview with Patti Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 05, 2010.

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• I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

  Trey Parker

  Mom, Dad, House

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• Before my sister, Sara, and I went to bed at night, my mom would show us books on Manet and other artists. Even then I was always really interested in how the women looked in the images.

  Erdem Moral?oglu

  Mom, Book, Artist

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I call my backup singers my sister wives. To me, they are my best friends. We are all super close. It's kind of like the closest relationship you can have without being blood related, to me. It's a joke that they're sister wives - obviously, we're not polygamists.

  Alex Winston

  Wife, My Best Friend, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My niece was a sexual-assault victim. My sister is a survivor of domestic violence. We have more shelters for animals than for battered women. That's not the message we should be sending.

  Hilda Solis

  Niece, Animal, Domestic Violence

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• My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

  Carrie Underwood

  Teenager, Rocks, Listening

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• My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Doe

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• I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

  David Duchovny

  Inspirational, Mom, Teacher

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• I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Believe, Neptune, Earth

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• I stand before you as the governor of Texas but also stand before you the son of two tenant farmers. Ray Perry who came home after 35 bombing missions over Europe to work his little corner of land out there and Amelia who made sure that my sister Milla and I had everything that we needed, included hand sewing my clothes until I went off to college.

  Rick Perry

  Home, Son, College

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.

  J. D. Salinger

  God, Children, Drinking

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• Perhaps some people really are born unhappy. I surely hope not. Speaking for my sister and myself: We were born with the capacity and determination to be utterly happy all the time. Perhaps even in this we were freaks. Hi ho.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Determination, People, Unhappy

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• I don’t worry anymore about writing. There are times that I go through dry periods. I never go through a block. I’m always writing, but there are times where I’m just not on my game, and I’ll use that time to read some new poets, go see some art, walk down to the river and just stare at it, or have a conversation with my sister, or whatever—do whatever it is that I do in my life, hoping that I’ll get filled up enough. And something will happen, some juggling will happen and boom.

  Dorianne Laux

  Art, Block, Writing

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• I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of respect, desire, and love. As there are many kinds of women, there are many kinds of men, and many men desire many kinds of women, trans women are amongst these women. And let’s be clear: Trans women are women.

  Janet Mock

  Men, Secret, Desire

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• I was on Facebook. I'm not anymore, but my sister always sends pictures to a page. I'm sure you can find a Bradley Cooper there.

  Bradley Cooper

  Pages

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• I'm a big fish eater. Salmon - I love salmon. My sister loves Chinese food and sushi and all that. I'm not as big of a fan, but she likes it so we eat it a lot. So I'm beginning to like it more. I don't like the raw sushi. I liked the cooked crab and lobster and everything.

  Elle Fanning

  Sister Love, Big Fish, Chinese

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• But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.

  Jandy Nelson

  Teaching, Feel Better, Thinking

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.97, Penguin

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