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KELLY JONES
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't k... NATE BERKUS I don't remember ever not singing. My mother loved music, and she taught me songs, country music...
FLORENCE HENDERSON
The first film I ever remember - I think my mother took me to it - was called 'She Married Her B... HARRY DEAN STANTON
My mother praised me when I did something good, and then the next moment, she would say, 'Don... BHUMIBOL ADULYADEJ
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... NATALIE MERCHANT My mother actually does most of my shopping for me. I love fashion, but I don't really love shop...
DANIELLE DE NIESE
I didn't like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was... TIG NOTARO
I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mothe... RUBEN BLADES
My own mother died when I was 10 years old. My folks have told me that what little humor I have come... WILL ROGERS My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and ...
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 remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the... CLIVE BARKER
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I started on the clarinet. I was going to a music school - my mother took me - and the guy said, ... CHRISTOPHER GUEST
My mother was a very beautiful lady, I thought. She was very good to me. I guess - she died when I w... B. B. KING
I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mothe... ALAN ALDA
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CHRISTOPHER JUDGE
I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property... JOAN RIVERS I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother...
KAJOL My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my ... MICHAEL KEATON
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... LAUREN BACALL My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started givin...
ALAN KING I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
H. R. GIGER My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I wa...
DANE COOK I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to ...
DAVID BLAINE My mother told me once that she had her talk with God whenever she started a new sweater: 'Pleas...
JUDY BLUME My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering hers...
CHARLES DANCE
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... TRACY MORGAN My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h...
JOHN LLOYD YOUNG
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath an... PATTI SMITH If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.
MICHAEL SHANNON My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz;...
QUENTIN BRYCE
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mo... TYLER PERRY
I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer hers... JOAN SUTHERLAND
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HARRIET WALTER
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother w... ANDREA JUNG I realized I had this incredibly rich legacy of Broadway and Hollywood memorabilia and I had to do s...
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MELISSA MCCARTHY
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DAVID ORTIZ
My dream was to play football for the Oakland Raiders. But my mother thought I would get hurt playin... RICKEY HENDERSON
My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, a... DONATELLA VERSACE
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't... J. D. SOUTHER My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
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ROSAMUND HODGE
I remember my oldest son, Steve, saying to me once, 'I don't ever remember seeing you with a... LAUREN BACALL
[But she was closer to her mother.] I adored my mother. She was very formal and proper, but she was ... JOAN RIVERS
My mother sees things but from the distance; she does not weigh them in regard to my position, and s... MARIE ANTOINETTE
My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It d... HOLLY MARIE COMBS
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... TYLER PERRY My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being ...
BRUCE FORSYTH My mother was a great believer in reincarnation — she believed she and my father had been married ...
CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS My mother was a great believer in reincarnation she believed she and my father had been married m...
CATHERINE BARRETT ANDREWS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three.
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musical... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strengt... JAYNE MEADOWS My wife, she is so good. She was a famous singer - had a show in Carnegie Hall, did a big city tour ...
SIRIO MACCIONI My mother doesn't really embarrass me. Even when I was young. She understands my career.
BOW WOW
Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot ... KANGANA RANAUT My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that ma...
SANFORD I. WEILL
I'd like my epitaph to read 'Given the amount of time she had, she did the best job she coul... DAWN STEEL
For those that don't know, my sister was born with Down Syndrome, and she was institutionalized ... NIKKI SIXX
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. MARK TWAIN
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. MARK TWAIN
I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kid... SARAH JESSICA PARKER
I'm really close to my mother. She sacrificed a lot for me and my sister. She gave up her career... RANBIR KAPOOR My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept he...
SUNIDHI CHAUHAN When I was in New York, I got to see Joan Rivers do an hour of material, and it blew my mind. I don&...
CHELSEA PERETTI From a child, I knew I didn't have the face I wanted to have. My mother was a baroness. She was ...
PETE BURNS I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr...
SAM RAIMI My mother painted and wrote. She always had a painting in progress on an easel in the kitchen, so ou...
LUANNE RICE
My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously throu... BUCK OWENS
My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me. VIDAL SASSOON My mother was harsh and constantly told me I had jug ears and heaven knows what else. But she was de...
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I remember seeing Amy Sedaris in a stint where she played somebody's alcoholic mother in one sce...
STEPHNIE WEIR I remember specifically my mother telling me growing up don't put my business in the street. I w...
KARRINE STEFFANS My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want...
LINDA LAVIN My first injury ever was a broken toe, and my mother made me run laps around the mat for the rest of...
RONDA ROUSEY I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all...
CHANDRA WILSON I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for...
GARY NUMAN
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"She married a house?
SHERRILYN KENYON She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess wi...
BARBARA COONEY My mother used to say, 'You gotta exercise.' She would really pound on me to exercise every ...
DICK GEPHARDT My mother had abandoned the family, so grandmother raised me. And she was instrumental in that she t...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES
I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the nigh... MARINA ABRAMOVIC
My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov... STEVEN WRIGHT
Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too. B. B. KING I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother...
URSULA BURNS
Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, ... KATHARINE HEPBURN My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me ab...
CANDACE CAMP I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is go...
TERESA HEINZ I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL REBELLO I tried to get my mother to move in with me, but she wanted to stay in her own home. When my mother ...
CAROL S. REBELLO
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W... 
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas. 
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ... 
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation. 