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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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I finally moved out of my parent's house. It was only fair to let my sister have her own room.
Author:
Kate Winslet
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She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.
Author:
Debra Wilson
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I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.
Author:
Venus Williams
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Everybody has fights with their sister.
Author:
Joe Williams
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.
Author:
Ryan White
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When I was a child I thought I saw an angel. It had wings and kinda looked like my sister. I opened the door so some light could come into the room, and it sort of faded away. My mother said it was probably my Guardian Angel.
Author:
Denzel Washington
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Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals.
Author:
Richard Wall
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Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
Author:
Alice Walker
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My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.
Author:
Antonio Villaraigosa
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I heard we'll get you a pass because we know you're married to a black woman. You're married to a sister so we'll give you that pass but also, those who know me but also if they look at the body of work, it is the bigger picture.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general.
Author:
Nobuo Uematsu
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I have many valentines. My mom and my sister and my directors. I got calls from all of them. And my friends. I respect what Valentine's Day stands for because it is about love.
Author:
Michelle Trachtenberg
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What a different world it was when I first sailed for Europe in 1930, with my mother, sister, and brother to spend six months abroad.
Author:
Gene Tierney
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Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
Author:
John Synge
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The picture has made its million back in four months; I have been overwhelmed by letters, hundreds of them, literally, begging me in my next production not to swing over the shallow trash of mother love, father love, sister love, brother love.
Author:
Erich Stroheim
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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In 1792, my Sister told me, I was growing out of my senses.
Author:
Joanna Southcott
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
Author:
Sophocles
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My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
Author:
Carly Simon
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When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
Author:
Tommy Shaw
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Sometimes you really dig a girl, the moment you kiss her, And then you get distracted by her older sister.
Author:
John Sebastian
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I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.
Author:
Ashley Scott
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There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
Author:
Bruce Schneier
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Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'
Author:
Michael Scheuer
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I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.
Author:
Adam Sandler
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
Author:
Otis Rush
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Author:
Christina Rossetti
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This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.
Author:
Charlotte Ross
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Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.
Author:
Frederick Reines
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What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.
Author:
Ron Reagan
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It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.
Author:
Michael Reagan
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The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.
Author:
Suzi Quatro
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You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.
Author:
Michael Powell
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He may have hair upon his chest but, sister, so has Lassie.
Author:
Cole Porter
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Loomis has always felt himself responsible for the fact that he did not stop Michael when he first murdered his sister, and so he's got that guilt to live with.
Author:
Donald Pleasence
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I becan acting when River was doing this TV series and they needed two kids for the show, so they got me and my little sister, Summer, to do it. After that I did some really weird guest spots with orangutans and stuff.
Author:
Joaquin Phoenix
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My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.
Author:
Emo Philips
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It has not been an easy cross to bear. It has caused considerable confusion. My husband constantly complained about the awkwardness of being married to a woman whom he called Sister.
Author:
Sister Parish
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My dear sister, I hope, when God Almighty in his righteous providence shall take me out of time into eternity, that it will be by a flash of lightning.
Author:
James Otis
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I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'
Author:
Marie Osmond
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My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
Author:
Douglass North
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The death of Mrs. Lincoln was a serious loss to her husband and children. Abraham's sister Sarah was only eleven years old, and the tasks and cares of the little household were altogether too heavy for her years and experience.
Author:
John Nicolay
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All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
Author:
Bill Murray
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The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.
Author:
Tia Mowry
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When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.
Author:
Nana Mouskouri
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But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.
Author:
Marston Morse
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One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to.
Author:
Toni Morrison
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I have nothing against undertakers personally. It's just that I wouldn't want one to bury my sister.
Author:
Jessica Mitford
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But my brother Joey was there, and my sister Tina Nina Minnelli was there.
Author:
Liza Minnelli
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
Author:
Kate Millett
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
Author:
H. Mencken
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
Author:
Margaret Mead
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I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.
Author:
Walter Martin
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As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.
Author:
Taryn Manning
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And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.
Author:
John Mahoney
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It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
Author:
John Mahoney
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And now, dear sister, I must leave this house or the retreating army will make me a prisoner in it by filling up the road I am directed to take.
Author:
Dolley Madison
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My sister Liza and I have never felt that we were in competition.
Author:
Lorna Luft
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Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Author:
Juliette Low
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Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.
Author:
Juliette Low
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My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.
Author:
Pierre Loti
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And my little sister died when she was 16.
Author:
Jeremy London
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My little sister Aliana's opinions are the most important to me. She says, 'I want to look like you, you're so pretty!' But she is very beautiful and so she is trouble in the making! She wants to do what I do. I'm like her second mother and I am very protective of her.
Author:
Lindsay Lohan
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I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.
Author:
Alex Lifeson
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Whoopi and I have been friends ever since she claimed she couldn't sing on the set of Sister Act.
Author:
Jenifer Lewis
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I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears.
Author:
Sheryl Lee
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My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.
Author:
Nicholas Lea
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I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth.
Author:
Jessica Lange
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I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.
Author:
Leo Kottke
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I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.
Author:
Lawrence Klein
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I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.
Author:
Nicole Kidman
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I haven't had a stationary home since going with the circus, but since my parents lived in Lafayette about 25 years ago and my sister lives here now, I always claim it as home.
Author:
Emmett Kelly
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Almost everything in 'A Day With Wilbur Robinson' has some basis in truth. And yes, my sister did pay me to feed her grapes while she talked to her boyfriend on the phone.
Author:
William Joyce
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
Author:
June Jordan
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I think it's been a little difficult at times for the audience, because they've told me they see me as a family member. So to see your little sister sing about sex... I think they are pretty used to it now.
Author:
Janet Jackson
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I was the youngest. The yule lamb. The one who always got away without doing the washing up. My sister was four years older, and my brother six years.
Author:
Jeremy Irons
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I may have had a crush on Zac, but we are like brother and sister, so nothing would ever happen.
Author:
Vanessa Hudgens
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Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.
Author:
Freddie Hubbard
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Fidelity is the sister of justice.
Author:
Horace
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The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
Author:
Harold Holt
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The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.
Author:
Alice Hoffman
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To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
Author:
Abbie Hoffman
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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.
Author:
Mitch Hedberg
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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.
Author:
Marvin Hamlisch
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I was a bratty little sister. I was the youngest of three, and I often felt as though I didn't fit in.
Author:
Dorothy Hamill
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She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
Author:
Bill Griffith
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Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
Author:
Lauren Graham
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Yeah, I started when I was 6 years old. My brother and sister would get all of these presents at Christmas time from the cast and crew of their show and I was jealous. So I decided that I had to become an actor.
Author:
Sara Gilbert
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A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost.
Author:
Marion Garretty
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My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.
Author:
Jennifer Garner
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I want to do something where I play Judi Dench's younger sister or daughter.
Author:
Dawn French
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My major influence was my ten years older sister.
Author:
Willa Ford
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Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.
Author:
Shelby Foote
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A sister is both your mirror - and your opposite.
Author:
Elizabeth Fishel
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My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
Author:
Freddy Fender
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You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.
Author:
Louis Farrakhan
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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 like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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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I was born in Connecticut. But my parents brought my sister and I to L.A. when-Hollywood, actually, when i was 6 months old.
Author:
Linda Evans
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I had a director who told me a story about a fan who had commented on how nice it was to see her sister laughing and how happy the show made her. I like to make people happy and make them laugh.
Author:
Will Estes
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Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.
Author:
Hector Elizondo
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I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius.
Author:
Christopher Durang
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I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy pram with black covers and a hood with metal clips that could trap your fingers. I was looking up at my sister who was sitting on the pram seat, with her back to me.
Author:
Helen Dunmore
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My sister used to say I had a frail chest and she 'd beat me up all the time.
Author:
Michael Duncan
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I have an older sister named Haley and she wanted to be an actress. So I wanted to be an actress. It's really funny the way that some people don't give kids enough credit for like really being driven, and really wanting to do things so badly.
Author:
Hilary Duff
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I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name.
Author:
John Cornyn
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Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.
Author:
Eric Cornell
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I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.
Author:
Joan Collins
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Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!
Author:
George Cohan
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When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.
Author:
Rosemary Clooney
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I was an only child; I didn't have a sister, or sisters.
Author:
Beverly Cleary
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
Author:
Rae Chong
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My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
Author:
Tracy Chapman
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I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.
Author:
Steve Case
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My father's sister never married in order to raise me.
Author:
Marcel Carne
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Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
Author:
James Cameron
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Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her.
Author:
Dan Butler
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It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.
Author:
Abigail Buren
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If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.
Author:
Pam Brown
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It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because, when I was young, in St. Louis, I remember saying to Marilyn, my sister by adoption, that that was how long I wanted to live: seventy years.
Author:
Harold Brodkey
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I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.
Author:
Lizzie Borden
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I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part.
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled.
Author:
Tom Berenger
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Author:
Brendan Behan
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My sister sometimes does a Todd Barry tribute act.
Author:
Todd Barry
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I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often.
Author:
Bob Balaban
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Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.
Author:
Tracy Austin
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My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.
Author:
Tracy Austin
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It was around 4 p.m. in the afternoon. I was just taking a nap. Luckily, my sister was home.
Author:
Sherman Austin
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My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.
Author:
Loni Anderson
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My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.
Author:
Loni Anderson
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
Author:
Dorothy Allison
