Joyce Carol Oates
Related I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few... CALISTA FLOCKHART The Lord of the Universe is my Sweet Beloved. He is sweeter than my mother or father. Among all sist... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB VIDAL SASSOON My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my pare... JACK RAMSAY DARREN ARONOFSKY My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. ZOE WANAMAKER JACK BLACK RIDLEY SCOTT The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt ve... CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG AUDREY NIFFENEGGER LYNN JOHNSTON LITTLE RICHARD MOHSIN HAMID BETTY WHITE CHANG-RAE LEE I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER My mother has a very strong determination to succeed. She looked forward to therapy and was full of ... BERNICE KING My mother has a very strong determination to succeed, ... She looked forward to therapy and was full... BERNICE KING My mother helped him with the recipes, and we all kind of worked together in his business. Tim had m... JOE MORGAN DONALD TRUMP By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very... ABHISHEK BACHCHAN B. F. SKINNER I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love... DEBRA MESSING CATHY GUISEWITE Late one afternoon when returning from town we were met by a few women and children who told us that... GERONIMO My father and mother were killed by the Japanese. I hated the Japanese very much. LONG QIMING If you're having a baby, nature has arranged the perfect food for your child—breast milk. I breast... WAI LANA YOGA My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and t... PAULE MARSHALL My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and th... PAULE MARSHALL DARREN ARONOFSKY JOYCE CAROL OATES TAYE DIGGS I wasn't happy at all as a child. I was very privileged and knew extraordinary people, but I fel... MARISA BERENSON ROBERTO BENIGNI I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif... VANESSA KERRY My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep ... SHEENA EASTON My mother and my sister and my friends were there. I knew, however, that it wasn't the end and that ... CONSTANTINE MAROULIS CHLOE SEVIGNY T. BOONE PICKENS I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I ... DEBRA MESSING ARABELLA WEIR I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very... CHARLES KIMBROUGH ANA CASTILLO JHUMPA LAHIRI RITA RUDNER FRANCOIS NARS I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's superv... GAIL SIMMONS ASPEN MATIS My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when... AGNES SMEDLEY My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends... T.I. ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH LAURA SCHLESSINGER CAROL BURNETT ROBERTO BENIGNI I do consider myself British. I have very strong feelings about my British heritage. SLASH I am my father and my mother. I am my grandparents. I am my friends. I am everyone I have ever spoke... LLOYD HOBBARD-MITCHELL I think of my films as not necessarily political but more moral. Between my father, my stepfather, a... ALEX GIBNEY My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;... QUENTIN BRYCE OLIVER TAMBO My father... very generous, very philanthropic, very charitable man. My siblings and I and my mother... STEVE TISCH My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who conti... JONATHAN BALL The statue was very meaningful to my mother --- our dad did bring a little bit of hope to many. LINDA HOPE JENNA MORASCA My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very domin... BEATRICE WOOD WYNTON MARSALIS Although I still love skating very much, my passion and love for the competitive aspect of the sport... JENNIFER KIRK I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities SATHESH KUMAR M PATTI SMITH I didn't feel a strong bond with the parents who raised me, and I had anything but a happy child... LISA LUTZ My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there... ADEWALE AKINNUOYE-AGBAJE My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o... PATRICIA POLACCO RALPH BAKSHI I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my moth... CAROLINE LEAVITT MARIE ANTOINETTE When my friends are gone, and i am so troubled all alone.
My mother is always right behind me, prayi... BRADLEY B. DALINA CHELSEA CLINTON OSCAR WILDE I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ... ANEURIN BARNARD SARAH DESSEN PHILIPPA GREGORY MR. T ALICE WALKER I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never e... BROOKE HAYWARD BILL MURRAY Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice... LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ... JAMES GANDOLFINI DEBORAH TANNEN OSCAR WILDE I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same... NIKKI REED JAMES ELLROY ANDIE MACDOWELL My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at so... FELICITY KENDAL I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me. NINA ARIANDA I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the f... CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE WALE My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e... PEPE SERNA PETE SEEGER I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories ... DARYL HALL
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me. 
I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big i... 
My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every... 
I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ... 
I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were m... 
You think about child abuse and you think of a father viciously attacking a daughter or a son, but i... 
I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always ... 
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m... 
A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends. 
My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and ... 
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... 
I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or no... 
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things ... 
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fict... 
I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother... 
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... 
My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save ... 
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched ... 
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t... 
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of sp... 
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father ca... 
My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napp... 
My mother and my two grandmothers, I was lucky to have three women around me growing up that were ve... 
But I couldn’t say any of this yet. No one answer felt it could contain anything close to the trut... 
My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mothe... 
My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi... 
My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too. 
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... 
We were very lucky. My mother and stepmothers were on very, very good terms, and so we, the children... 
When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the... 
I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to ... 
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to... 
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thi... 
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And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wond... 
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies... 
I watched my mother do what she did best, and realized there would never be a way to cut myself from... 
My mother? My own mother told my lady governess that if the baby and I were in danger then they shou... 
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... 
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head... 
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between fri... 
American popular culture, like individuals in daily life, tends to either romanticize or demonize mo... 
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies... 
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As a single mother of four, my mother taught me that you always want to show up strong for the momen... 
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... 
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You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of ... 
Keep a light, hopeful heart. But expect the worst. 
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. 
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. 
I have a great family, I live an amazing life. 
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like... 
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if... 
There is such a thing as bad publicity.