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Related I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo... PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only... RICK RIORDAN It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON I've got a few ideas," (Amy) admitted. "But I don't know where we're going in the long term. I mean ... RICK RIORDAN Alas, I think I am becoming a god. TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name. LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. LUCAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan. BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously. ERINN HAYES Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way." "Funny name for an aircraft... GORDON KORMAN Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take... SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flav... MAGGIE GRACE I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato... ISAIAH WASHINGTON Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gav... LIZA MINNELLI La vida es un regalo diario. Valóralo. Al final, lo que importa no son los años de vida, sino la v... PAOLA CALASANZ ''DULCINEA'' The book that made a lasting impression was the one my mother gave each of us when she decided we we... HALLIE EPHRON They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... BROOKE SMITH When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was... KATHRYN HARRISON Once upon a time, I was a little girl sick in the hospital, and my mother gave me a copy of 'Gri... KATE FORSYTH One Christmas, Dennis Dermody, the movie critic of 'Paper,' gave me 'Rock Hudson: A Gath... JOHN WATERS I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in... ROB LOWE I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M... ELLEN BURSTYN I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas. HILLARY CLINTON There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really under... PHYLICIA RASHAD if you can't have the one you love, you can love the one you have IRAZ 'DEALOVA' I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magaz... RACHEL KUSHNER Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allo... BERNADETTE DEVLIN It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament. BERNADETTE DEVLIN One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each o... BERNADETTE DEVLIN To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. BERNADETTE DEVLIN My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It d... HOLLY MARIE COMBS 'The Daily News' and 'Post' gave me my life, and I want to see them survive. PETE HAMILL 'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there... CAITLYN JENNER My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want... LINDA LAVIN I'm a mother myself, and sometimes mothers get a bad rap just because they've tried to do th... ANNIE POTTS I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something... JEAN NIDETCH I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is... LA INDIA Sometimes I get ideas from childhood. In 'The Hat', Hedgie starts getting teased about his h... JAN BRETT My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. JENNIFER ANISTON My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS 'Foolishq' from 'Ki & Ka' gave me a chance to work with renowned composer Ilaiya... ARMAAN MALIK There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movie... ALBERT BROOKS I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ev... HENRY ROLLINS I have always loved animals, and as a child, I read a lot of horse books. I had a particular favorit... DREW GILPIN FAUST Where the daughter sees power, the mother feels powerless. Daughters and mothers, I found, both over... DEBORAH TANNEN I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career... RANBIR KAPOOR The piece I most love wearing is Mother's gold brocade cocktail dress with matching jacket... It... MARGO JEFFERSON My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies. LINDSEY VONN I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... LARRY DAVID I adore the incredibly tight clothing! My own wardobe's changed - I've streamlined a little ... CHRISTINA HENDRICKS On 'Grey's Anatomy,' I didn't have to move too much. I think I ran through the hospi... ERIC DANE I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in jo... EMMA CAULFIELD In 'Mother's Day,' which is directed by legendary director Garry Marshall, I play a moth... LONI LOVE When I was a child, next to my own mother, no woman that ever lived took as much interest in me, gav... HEBER J. GRANT My mother's side of the family, they're from Montserrat in the Leeward Islands. BILLY DEE WILLIAMS I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until y... NATASHA LEGGERO American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mo... DEBORAH TANNEN My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to ... PAULA YATES The story of Warner Brothers' movie, 'Mildred Pierce,' recounts the enormous and unrewar... MANNY FARBER My mother is British; she's from Shrewsbury. She turned me onto 'Monty Python' very earl... JASON BATEMAN In 'Remember the Night,' love reformed her and corrupted him, which gave us the finely balan... PRESTON STURGES There's not a day that goes by that I don't bless myself with holy water and then get in my ... PETER CRISS My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn... SAM DONALDSON The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens BAHá'U'LLáH The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l... BAHá'U'LLáH Religious fanaticism and hatred are a world-devouring fire, whose violence none can quench. BAHá'U'LLáH I write because, if I don't, my characters will murder me in my sleep. ASTRID 'ARTISTIKEM' CRUZ दो न्याय अगर तो आधा दो, पर, इसमें भी ... RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' वसुधा का नेता कौन हुआ? भूखंड-विजेता क... RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याघ�... RAMDHARI SINGH 'DINKAR' I was so afraid to go out west to my aunt's ranch. But the only choice my mother gave me was to ... TEMPLE GRANDIN My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well... RICHIE HAVENS From childhood my mother had me examining Robert Mapplethorpe's style and Egon Schiele's fra... MILLA JOVOVICH 'I am a bad mother.' Every Christmas, this is what I think because the holiday season fills ... TESS GERRITSEN I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That'... VINCENT GALLO My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son... ADRIANO GIANNINI I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are iron... DAN SAVAGE Anyone who was tempted to draw comparisons between my father's 'Dave Robicheaux' series ... ALAFAIR BURKE It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl'... ANNETTE BENING My favourite character in fiction was probably either James from 'James and the Giant Peach'... RUPI KAUR You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can ... AARON NEVILLE I gave three years of my life to take care of my dying mother who had Alzheimer's disease. Being... MELODY BEATTIE See, my strumpf is in my hair. Now, I don't know what strumpf means. It's just a term some b... DANNY MASTERSON My love of fashion stemmed from my mother's passion for it. FRANCISCO COSTA I started getting Twitter followers after I started doing press for 'Fargo.' One of my best ... ALLISON TOLMAN What distinguished my life from my brother's is that my mother didn't like me. When I became... JAMAICA KINCAID
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