Melody Beattie
Related I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 ... DOUG DAVIDSON My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was... KAROLYN GRIMES I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest... MARTY ROBBINS My mum died of leukemia when I was in high school - she lost her life at 40. It was very hard, and I... CORY HARDRICT My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she want... LINDA LAVIN Around 17 to 20 years, I became, myself, a poacher. And I wanted to do it, because - I believed - to... CORNEILLE EWANGO My mum was a wonderful mother. She died, aged 80, of Alzheimer's disease, which was dreadful to ... BONNIE TYLER J. COLE Acting was always there, it's true. But for a long time, in my teenage years, I wasn't sure ... BILL SKARSGARD I met my wife in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a g... GLENN TURNER FERGIE KALEY CUOCO FRANK MCCOURT In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of... ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL MR. T I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, ... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR ADRIANNE PALICKI TERRY PRATCHETT My mother doesn't have much of a social life with other A-list people. Which in a way I'm ve... OONA CHAPLIN ELISABETH SHUE TRACY MORGAN My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything s... BONNIE TYLER I've sort of had an investigatory relationship with being a musician. I really wasn't sure w... ERIC AVERY MARISA MILLER STEVEN WRIGHT I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainte... JOHNNY VEGAS ORLANDO BLOOM ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then f... REBECCA FERGUSON JOAN RIVERS DOROTHY HAMILL I've told my team it will take three years for Eckerd, ... We have a lot of work to do. JEAN COUTU HILARY SWANK I've had a lot of mother figures. But by the time my mom came into my life, it wasn't a '... PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON CHRISSY TEIGEN DAVID NICHOLLS When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V... VESTA WILLIAMS DAVID JOHANSEN My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer... SUE MILLER When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jew... LARENZ TATE My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y... DARA KHOSROWSHAHI IDINA MENZEL DWYANE WADE BRUCE COVILLE PATTI DAVIS In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks a... CURT SCHILLING CHLOE SEVIGNY OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND ASHLEY SMITH My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my clas... MIKE VOGEL ASHLEY GREENE I couldn't care less about who sees my bits... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that ... COLIN FARRELL Well I was eight years old, and I have an older cousin who is three years older than me and she was ... HAILEE STEINFELD The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea. JOHN SEBASTIAN Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's... ABBAS KIAROSTAMI For me and for our family, looking at death is its glory, and an opportunity to thank God for this g... RONNENE HARRIS It was a feeling I've never felt in my life. We've wanted this for the last three years. BRYAN CARANO JOHN MAYER NOAM CHOMSKY My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, ... MACKENZIE PHILLIPS I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it wa... KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS ROWAN ATKINSON MARY OLIVER My mother had Alzheimer's, and it's a desperately, desperately cruel thing to witness. GEMMA JONES I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was rea... CAITY LOTZ Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfathe... DAVID HYDE PIERCE BARBARA CORCORAN I wouldn't be where I am, if not for Jamaica. My formative years were here. I wouldn't have ... MICHAEL LEE-CHIN When my hair was dark for 'House,' that was the hardest to maintain because it was like ever... JENNIFER MORRISON TYLER PERRY But it's also because of something personal. My mother and father met while playing chess, so I&... DOROTHY DUNNETT When I was studying comedy in Chicago, it wasn't long after 9/11. There were a lot Middle Easter... KUMAIL NANJIANI RACHEL MCADAMS DAVID EDWARDS GENE WILDER I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I w... AZITA GHANIZADA RACHAEL RAY RYAN TEDDER I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the bur... NADINE LABAKI I didn't want to break with my family. I wasn't about to make waves. But I had this feeling ... CHARLES KIMBROUGH AKHIL SHARMA I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'... JAIME CAMIL TREVOR NOAH I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated bec... RANDY HARRISON I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't eve... EDAN LEPUCKI There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar... ANDY SUMMERS KATY PERRY There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ... CAROL VORDERMAN KHLOE KARDASHIAN TYLER PERRY Certainly, I know what it's like to be obsessed. I haven't always been there for my children... HENNING MANKELL And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy L... MEL TILLIS I am committed to helping Alzheimer's Society in any way I can. My family and I rely on the help... CAREY MULLIGAN SHERRI SHEPHERD QUINCY JONES JEAN NIDETCH MARTIN GARRIX Auntie Em: For twenty-three years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now... well... THE WIZARD OF OZ KATHI APPELT
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I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just... MELODY CARLSON MELODY CARSTAIRS He was a late night MELODY LEE She's burning and out of control and everything I love about fire. MELODY LEE When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way. MELODY LEE While they all ink their skin,MELODY LEE She's the kind of girl who brings you to the moon without you even being aware. The kind of girl you... MELODY LEE I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul. MELODY LEE She's the kind of girl who brings you to the moon without you even being aware. The kind of girl you... MELODY LEE She's just a girl who dreams too deeply for this world. MELODY LEE It's amazing the things you realize MELODY CARLSON Trying not to let your lack of depth bring out the irritable in me-- there is only so much shallow a... MELODY LEE Don’t be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are prepa... MELODY LEE You drive me crazy, but you keep my sane. MELODY LEE He felt like sin but tasted like love so what's a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious crazy l... MELODY LEE I would rather dance alone under the stars than spend a lifetime hiding behind the moon. MELODY LEE I dream of you every night or try my best, but somehow you end up in there either way. MICHIKO MELODY If I'm out of breath now...I'm going to lose air when I see you. MICHIKO MELODY I can honestly say that there was no nurturing at all. I mean, we were fed. We were well clothed. Th... MELODY STRONG There is a beastMELODY LEE A lot of these areas that were formerly agricultural, they're being touted as lakefront housing deve... MELODY HEIDEL Some people have hollow souls. They’ll see your light and like a moth to a flame, they’ll gravit... MELODY LEE We contacted them to see if it was possible to make a donation like this and the chaplain there welc... MELODY KNOLES Those with wild hearts love bigMELODY LEE I'll always be the yearning poet bleeding ink chasing stars drunk on dreams. MELODY LEE Forbidden things - my God, I'm drawn to them like a moth to a flame. MELODY LEE Intoxicate me with the beauty MELODY LEE She's a tangled mess of wild- a forest nymph, a goddess child. She's like the seductive sea - feral ... MELODY LEE She's a dark-eyed, red flame, bohemian hurricane. MELODY LEE Don't tell a girl with fire in her veins and hurricane bones what she should and shouldn't do. In th... MELODY LEE You talk about believers. We wouldn't go away. I was confident down 19 points. I was confident again... MELODY STEWART When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that litera... MELODY LEE I'm a tad insane, but I promise you won't forget me. MELODY LEE I have an attraction to strangeMELODY LEE I had a dream about you. The sky was green and the ground was blue. You spoke a song and I sang my t... MELODY SOHAYEGH It's easy to hide behind a smile, that's why it is so important to search instead inside the eyes. MELODY LEE When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. MELODY AURORA Instead of thanking God for my two strong legs that are able to run and jump and climb, I whi... MELODY CARLSON I could make love with you until the moon decides to never glow again. MELODY LEE She doesn’t burn bridges, MELODY LEE Wake up wild one! Your mind is a cageless bird waiting to fly to uncharted lands. Like the phoenix, ... MELODY LEE If you're gonna do that, make sure it's safe, and have full disclosure in that sense. Take care of t... MELODY HEIDEL Groomed and clean cut are fine and dandy,MELODY LEE The amount of her madnessMELODY LEE My soulMELODY LEE She burns like the sunMELODY LEE I contemplate the impossible and achieve madness. This is my blessing. This is my curse. My heaven, ... MELODY LEE Storms,MELODY LEE When catastrophe strikes compassion and love unite. A storm can't break the spirit of love. A storm ... MELODY LEE What if?..MELODY CARLSON Leave the comfort of your dark cocoon... Allow your imagination to take flight. Embrace those marvel... MELODY LEE MELODY CARSTAIRS Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight. MELODY LEE Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all qui... MELODY CARLSON You'll find magic everywhere, even in dark, dusty corners, if you stop searching with your limited h... MELODY LEE Your soul is so bohemian, free and gypsy wild. Come swim with me in the calming sea, let's be mermai... MELODY LEE You're sexy and suave and you say the right things, but unless you can reach into my soul and tantal... MELODY LEE Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous. MELODY MAYER Her stories were made of badass women teasing monsters and running wild with dragons. MELODY LEE Occasionally you can hear her howl, when the sky is black and the moon is full. MELODY LEE Melody Malone is the owner and sole employee of the Angel Detective Agency in Manhattan. She is poss... MELODY MALONE MELODY CARSTAIRS MELODY CARSTAIRS I think it was a complete success. I wasn't as concerned with a good single sales day as I was with ... MELODY ARNOLD We've been coming along all year. Everybody's pretty excited. We've been on a mission since May and ... MELODY DAVIDSON We need to address the state of the sewage lines and be concerned of the health of the ocean and res... MELODY HEIDEL She made some very good decisions tonight. She knew when to take over. It was great for our fans to ... MELODY OWSLEY We have been monitoring the safety, security and infrastructure reliability to ensure employees can ... MELODY MEYER It's a big topic, hard to understand but very important. MELODY RYLAND My mother didn't have any other options. But to be able to educate women now that there are options ... MELODY STRONG Our grandfather asked us to always keep the land for family members to come home to. MELODY WILLARD She has wings the color of wild and a soul the color of art. MELODY LEE When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible sum... IAN BEATTIE I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a ... IAN BEATTIE When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only ... IAN BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to impro... BILL BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE The nice thing is that the rivalry has grown into a rivalry of respect. It used to be that it was mo... BILL BEATTIE The nice thing is, we had a chance to get a lot of kids playing time, BILL BEATTIE We're going to try to get him involved in a variety of ways, ... He's not the type of tailback where... BILL BEATTIE Every year we've had some guy who could slam it in there, ... We've been lucky. BILL BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to fo... IAN BEATTIE If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautifu... IAN BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE You just see that in spite of all that, he's just not catching up to pitches that I know he would ha... JIM BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE They're a good football team that's physical and hasn't had a lot of breaks. BILL BEATTIE It would be nice to have one of those guys back, but we can't dwell on it. These guys have done a go... BILL BEATTIE I thought our starters did a good job, came out and got it done from the start. Our defense didn't g... BILL BEATTIE There's not a more deserving man than him. The mark he's left on the community is fantastic. BILL BEATTIE He's definitely out for two-to-three weeks minimum -- and that's the good news. The bad news is surg... BILL BEATTIE They found out they can't count on what's happened in the past, ... When you have success, you think... BILL BEATTIE We hope to throw it around more, too, ... Especially since we don't have that seasoned offensive lin... BILL BEATTIE As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't f... IAN BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE It's a fresh, masculine and modern fragrance. SCOTT BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE It's hard to express oneself at times like this, MALCOLM BEATTIE We haven't had a cyclone like this for decades, if we've ever had one like it before. PETER BEATTIE We will finish what we started. We will ensure that the people of Bundaberg will get justice. PETER BEATTIE The CMC will have to determine what they will do, PETER BEATTIE One thing we are determined to do is not put the people of Bundaberg and the patients of Dr Patel th... PETER BEATTIE It's our job to accept the umpire's decision and to find a way through this mess. PETER BEATTIE Everyone in the urban areas is actually paying full cost recovery. PETER BEATTIE ANN BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE We're breathing a sigh of relief. LEE BEATTIE Defensively, it would be a big uplift. He plays hard. He bounces off walls. He doesn't leave anythin... JIM BEATTIE We're here to throw down the gauntlet of a $250 million match to the Legislature. LYNN BEATTIE We'll fight to the end, but I don't think we'll win them (the seats), PETER BEATTIE We're a team. You're going to face adversity through the season, BILL BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE JAMES BEATTIE
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