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My mother, she's like, She can work on herself.


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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.


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My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.


Jared Leto
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
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My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so our house always smelled like oil paint. At night, she wrote after she'd put my sisters and me to bed, and the sound of her typing was our lullaby.
Luanne Rice
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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
Alan Alda
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
Rachel Kushner
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Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.
Peter Agre
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My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
Patti Smith
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I remember, when I was a kid, watching my mother jam herself into her girdle - a piece of equipment so rigid it could stand up on its own - and I remember her coming home from fancy parties and racing upstairs to extricate herself from its cruel iron grip.
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Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.


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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.


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I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you.


Alec Baldwin
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My mother attended the local church, Saint Nicolas, and consequently, I attended that church and its Sunday School. My only prizes from the Sunday School were 'for attendance,' so I presume my atheism, which developed when I left home to attend university, although latent, was discernible.
Michael Smith
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The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.


Jacques Yves Cousteau
Thank the Lord for a mother who was a general as well as a Latter-day Saint; who realized that it was a remarkable and splendid thing to encourage a boy to do something besides perhaps milking cows if he was on a farm, if he had ambitions along athletic lines.
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
Citium Zeno
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.
Tom Clancy
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My publicist always said as long as they pronounce your name or spell your name right, it's all good.
Tina Yothers
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