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My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.
Author:
Daphne Zuniga
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I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.
Author:
Zhang Ziyi
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I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.
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Scott Wolf
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My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.
Author:
Dennis Wilson
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I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.
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JoBeth Williams
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I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework.
Author:
Vanna White
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
Author:
Ryan White
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I remember my mom dressed like Janis Joplin.
Author:
Bryan White
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We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Author:
Ethel Waters
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I prefer to imagine that my wife, a few friends, and occasionally my mom are the only ones who read what I do, though I realize that this is somewhat unrealistic.
Author:
Chris Ware
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My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
Author:
Milo Ventimiglia
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I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
Author:
Alexa Vega
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Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.
Author:
Liv Tyler
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I did find some time to go to a record store and check out "Headstrong" actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!
Author:
Ashley Tisdale
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I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.
Author:
Ashley Tisdale
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Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you're not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like "What did you do to yourself?" I was so embarrassed.
Author:
Ashley Tisdale
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I'm talking like 10, 12 years old. Either junior brings Mom and Pop or Mom and Pop bring the kids. I'm talking young here, not a college drinking crowd.
Author:
George Thorogood
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I begged my mom to let me start skating.
Author:
Debi Thomas
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I would make my mom buy me the toy doctor kit.
Author:
Debi Thomas
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My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.
Author:
Tiffani Thiessen
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When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
Author:
Joe Theismann
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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
Author:
Quentin Tarantino
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
Author:
Taylor Swift
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
Author:
Taylor Swift
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Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different.
Author:
Ruben Studdard
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I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.
Author:
Connie Stevens
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Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was doing acting, commercials, and modeling at the time and... to see my cousin doing that was really inspiring and I wanted to do it. So I went to my mom and I asked her if I could do it, and for the acting part of it, she made me study for a year.
Author:
Hailee Steinfeld
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I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella.
Author:
Gwen Stefani
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I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
Author:
Scott Speedman
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An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!
Author:
Marla Sokoloff
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I felt I couldn't be a good mom anymore, but I didn't want my children to grow up without a mom. I felt I had to end our lives to protect us from any grief or harm.
Author:
Susan Smith
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My children, Michael and Alex, are with our Heavenly Father now, and I know that they will never be hurt again. As a mom, that means more than words could ever say.
Author:
Susan Smith
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My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
Author:
Jimmy Smith
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My mom put me in a Pampers commercial on TV.
Author:
Christian Slater
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My mom is two people to me. She's my mom number one, and then she's this lady most comedians know as being a legendary owner of a nightclub that's responsible for starting a lot of heavy careers.
Author:
Pauly Shore
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It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
Author:
Brooke Shields
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When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.
Author:
Alia Shawkat
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My mom used to say that Greek Easter was later because then you get stuff cheaper.
Author:
Amy Sedaris
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Everyone checks out my mom. My mom's hot.
Author:
Ashley Scott
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I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.
Author:
Devon Sawa
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I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria" from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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My mom was at every single game I played as a kid, rain or shine.
Author:
Ryne Sandberg
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I was born in Texas and I lived there 'till I was 8. Then I moved to the Dominican Republic with my mom, lived there for two years and forgot every word of English I knew.
Author:
Michelle Rodriguez
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I had said to some pastor that I was having thoughts, and the church turned on me. They went to my mom and said, So sorry about your son.
Author:
Jai Rodriguez
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When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent.
Author:
Jai Rodriguez
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My mom doesn't get the whole gay thing, but she loves me.
Author:
Jai Rodriguez
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Author:
Patricia Richardson
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My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.
Author:
Kevin Richardson
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Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.
Author:
Harry Reasoner
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I told my agents that I didn't want to go on the audition. But as that was happening I called my mom, who has been watching the show from the beginning, and my mom said, 'It's the coolest show. You have to go.'
Author:
Mary Rajskub
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They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'
Author:
Charlotte Rae
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Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!
Author:
Martha Quinn
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I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too.
Author:
Billy Preston
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My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'
Author:
Paula Poundstone
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My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
Author:
Sarah Polley
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I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.
Author:
Liz Phair
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Well, my mom is single and we've both been single at the same time over the last ten years, so I really related to the bond between my character and Diane's.
Author:
Amanda Peet
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Washington has got to, across the board, lower taxes for small businesses so that our mom and pops can reinvest and hire people, so that our businesses can thrive.
Author:
Sarah Palin
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
Author:
Ed O'Neill
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
Author:
Larisa Oleynik
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My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
Author:
Kate O'Brien
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As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Author:
Barack Obama
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No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
Author:
Eddie Murray
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My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.
Author:
Little Milton
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I showed my mom the movie then I told her the movie got bought and that it was gonna be shown in theatres and be on video. Everyone was really psyched about it. Everyone in my little town of hounds started to call me movie star.
Author:
Jason Mewes
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My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be.
Author:
Ethel Merman
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Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.
Author:
Ethel Merman
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My family, you know, are all still, you know, very close. We're all still very close. Mom and Daddy are still alive. So, what more can you ask for? Your kids are healthy.
Author:
Reba McEntire
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One time my mom tried to ground me, but that lasted 15 minutes.
Author:
Bam Margera
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
Author:
Taryn Manning
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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.
Author:
Greg Louganis
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My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.
Author:
Alison Lohman
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My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.
Author:
Wendy Liebman
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I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.
Author:
Monica Lewinsky
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For me, being tall was very positive because I thought my mom was the most beautiful person ever.
Author:
Lisa Leslie
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I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.
Author:
Lisa Leslie
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I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.
Author:
Amy Lee
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Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.
Author:
Emeril Lagasse
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I started cooking when I was about 10. I have memories like when I was 6 or 7 with my mom, and when I was 12 I started getting real serious about cooking.
Author:
Emeril Lagasse
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My mom is still yelling at me because she needs more autographed pictures.
Author:
Ashton Kutcher
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We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
Author:
Margot Kidder
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My mom is definitely my rock.
Author:
Alicia Keys
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My mother kept asking me, 'When are you going to do a gospel album?' And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.
Author:
Alan Jackson
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In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.
Author:
Karen Hughes
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Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.
Author:
Arianna Huffington
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There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.
Author:
Arianna Huffington
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I always wanted to be a mom.
Author:
Kate Hudson
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I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.
Author:
Kate Hudson
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Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.
Author:
Billie Holiday
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I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.
Author:
Martina Hingis
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When you're a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
Author:
Faith Hill
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My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.
Author:
Shuler Hensley
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My mom is a sculptress.
Author:
P. Harvey
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I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.
Author:
Mariska Hargitay
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She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.
Author:
Tonya Harding
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My mother stopped working when she had my brother. She was a full time mom until I started getting heavily into ice skating lessons, and it got to the point where they really needed my mom to earn an income.
Author:
Dorothy Hamill
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Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.
Author:
Jessica Hahn
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Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
Author:
Cathy Guisewite
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Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.
Author:
Cathy Guisewite
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I'm proud of what I look like. I'm proud that I look like my mom.
Author:
Lisa Guerrero
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My mom died when I was 8.
Author:
Lisa Guerrero
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Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.
Author:
Amy Grant
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I grew up with the classics. My mom and I would sit and watch "Singin' in the Rain" and "White Christmas" - those kind of movies.
Author:
Lucas Grabeel
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I'm almost a full-time mom.
Author:
Ekaterina Gordeeva
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Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.
Author:
Arthur Godfrey
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Mom thinks I live in this dream world where everybody's Ivana Trump.
Author:
Kathie Gifford
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Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar.
Author:
Kathie Gifford
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
Author:
Balthazar Getty
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I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world.
Author:
Jami Gertz
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Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level.
Author:
Jami Gertz
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When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buckteeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
Author:
James Franco
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My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.
Author:
Joely Fisher
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I'm sure that my mom would have been happy with any path I chose.
Author:
Joely Fisher
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I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I always played the mom and I played my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
Author:
Dakota Fanning
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I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.
Author:
Linda Evans
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My mom was definitely very strict with me.
Author:
Gloria Estefan
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I'd go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.
Author:
Eminem
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I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.
Author:
Eliza Dushku
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We didn't have a TV in the living room and all my friends thought we were kind of weird. When they'd come over, my mom wanted to talk to them about current events.
Author:
Eliza Dushku
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Mom always tells me to celebrate everyone's uniqueness. I like the way that sounds.
Author:
Hilary Duff
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I'm not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I'm sure I ever want to grow up. I'm sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.
Author:
Jerry Doyle
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I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.
Author:
Miley Cyrus
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If I could get any animal it would be a dolphin. I want one so bad. Me and my mom went swimming with dolphins and I was like, 'How do we get one of those?' and she was like, 'You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?'
Author:
Miley Cyrus
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My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.
Author:
Miley Cyrus
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I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.
Author:
Miley Cyrus
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You know, I loved math. My mom was a math teacher.
Author:
Joan Cusack
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I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.
Author:
Cindy Crawford
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When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.
Author:
Holly Combs
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Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.
Author:
Richard Codey
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If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.
Author:
Patsy Cline
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I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.
Author:
Michael Chang
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My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor.
Author:
Steve Case
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
Author:
Vanessa Carlton
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My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.
Author:
Vanessa Carlton
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When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.
Author:
Earl Campbell
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I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
Author:
Sandra Bullock
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I basically became a cheerleader because I had a very strict mom. That was my way of being a bad girl.
Author:
Sandra Bullock
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I didn't understand that I could sing until I was like 11 or 12. My mom heard me singing around the house and she said, What are you doing? You really can sing! So then I started going to school and singing to the girls.
Author:
Chris Brown
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I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again.
Author:
Chester Brown
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
Author:
Edie Brickell
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I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.
Author:
Lara Boyle
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I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.
Author:
Lara Boyle
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
Author:
Valerie Bertinelli
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I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Author:
Michael Bergin
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
Author:
Candice Bergen
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I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.
Author:
Alice Barrett
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A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.
Author:
Roseanne Barr
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We've got activists all across the country like the members of the Million Mom March organization, some of their leaders are here tonight. We're phone banking congressional offices and pursuing editorial boards.
Author:
Michael Barnes
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My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.
Author:
Travis Barker
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My mom passed away a day before high school started, and her dream was for me to be a full rock and roll guy, and play drums in a band.
Author:
Travis Barker
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I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut.
Author:
Christine Baranski
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My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.
Author:
Tyra Banks
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Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
Author:
Kevyn Aucoin
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I know how to do anything, I'm a mom.
Author:
Roseanne Arnold
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My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.
Author:
Loni Anderson
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My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.
Author:
Loni Anderson
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Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
Author:
Nelson Algren
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My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop.
Author:
Peter Agre
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My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.
Author:
Casey Affleck
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There is nothing worse that a thirteen-year-old boy. You're embarrassed by your parents, and you're trying to find your independance because, deep inside, you are so dependent on your mom.
Author:
Ben Affleck
