Padma Lakshmi
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES DORIS DAY MARIO BATALI The intensity of intention inside a woman’s mind to reign like a queen is so pronounced that she e... ANUJ SOMANY It's always been in our family. All my uncles and aunts and cousins have been altar servers. HECTOR GONZALEZ KERRY WASHINGTON JULIAN CASTRO MOHSIN HAMID My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish comm... MIKE KRZYZEWSKI WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART JENNIFER ANISTON As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who s... RICHARD CORLISS CHELSEA CLINTON I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and... JANICE WILLIAMS RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't ... LATANYA RICHARDSON C.G. JUNG My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of ... EVA VERTES NIA VARDALOS SARA SHERIDAN BHAGAVAD GITA I grew up celebrating the holidays with cousins, aunts and uncles. And I wanted that for my kids eve... GAYLE TOLCHIN VICTORIA PRINCIPAL I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell. JULIE WALTERS LAURA DERN ALICE WALKER THOMAS EDWARD BROWN A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love. RAQUEL CEPEDA My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing the... FELICITY JONES ELIZABETH GILBERT AL SHARPTON JOHANNES KEPLER GIGI HADID GASTON LEROUX JOYCE CAROL OATES KATHRYN STOCKETT Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS JOANNE LIU MAHERSHALA ALI My aunts told wonderful stories. Not to me, but to each other. We had a very strong family. My mothe... BARRY HANNAH I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I The friends I have from childhood are definitely like family to me - extended sisters and brothers, ... KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised m... ERNEST GAINES JAY LENO I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but b... ISAIAH MUSTAFA DAREN KAGASOFF I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice ... DINESH D'SOUZA We have a very disabled person in our family who is cared for by someone who lives a life most other... TOM HOLLANDER RENEE AHDIEH ANDIE MACDOWELL AMBER TAMBLYN I have painted gods, and goddesses too, and my favourite is Ganesha and Radha Krishna. HANSIKA MOTWANI GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON And if that is to happen, then I just pray she's adopted by a mother who loves her as much as I do. ALLYSON SCHAAF QUINCY JONES MICHELLE OBAMA CRAIG GROESCHEL So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES SUZANNE COLLINS My mother died of cystic fibrosis before I knew her. I was two years old, and I don't remember h... JOHN LLOYD YOUNG CHERIE LUNGHI If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and... LARA SPENCER Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. BRYAN CLAY ADELE RUPI KAUR SHERWOOD ANDERSON I love seeing my husband hold our daughter and just give her kisses, unsolicited kisses. When he doe... VANESSA LACHEY MARIO TESTINO ANONYMOUS I heard my mother talking badly of me to people who were talking badly of me in her salon. That'... VINCENT GALLO I have a really beautiful mother. She is close to 60, and to this day doesn't wear a speck of ma... JULIANNE NICHOLSON When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me ... RAVI TEJA I'm throwing myself back in because I like being married. I don't want to end this whole fab... NEIL DIAMOND I brought this case because I am an atheist and this offends me, and I have the right to bring up my... MICHAEL NEWDOW AMY TAN VERA FARMIGA One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellio... EDEN RIEGEL Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened d... JULIETTE BINOCHE To be honest, my partner Natasha is my inspiration. She is who I reference when searching for my rol... DAVID HALLBERG Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me ... AMOS LEE My wife (Barbara) understood. My daughter also is a Kent State graduate, but she now works at Ohio U... FRANK HICKS I've struggled a lot to get where I am. I initially got rejected by every producer. But no compl... RAVI TEJA SARAH DESSEN ALICE MUNRO JOAN SUTHERLAND The support of her family and friends has really made a difference in her recovery, ... And I expect... DAVID PATTERSON My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite... JAMIE CULLUM Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascin... PEDRO ALMODOVAR TERRI APTER ELIZABETH GILBERT I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. My mother is a survivor of both polio and of the Igbo geno... UZO ADUBA At one point, he asked me if I were single, and told me his daughter lived in L.A. and suggested I l... JEFF HOCKETT LEE RADZIWILL It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the... DENENE MILLNER I lived with my mother all my life until she died, and I don't really think I knew her, because ... HARRIET WALTER AYELET WALDMAN AMY TAN Her grandmother was a drug dealer. Her mother was a drug addict, and she never knew her father. Nico... GARY W. ADAIR CARRIE FISHER TEENA MARIE
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I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven. 
When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. ... 
I come from a family with a really strong work ethic - not just my parents, but my aunts, uncles and... 
My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, ... 
I come from an enormous and very close family. I have over a dozen aunts and uncles in Pakistan, doz... 
My great-grandfather used to say to his wife, my great-grandmother, who in turn told her daughter, m... 
My father and I are friends and my mother and I don't speak. It's a bummer. I miss her. 
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. 
Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends... 
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My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an E... 
O King, by repeated remembrance of this marvelous and sacred dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjun... 
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As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach... 
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... My mother, daroga, my poor, unhappy mother would never... let me kiss her... She used to run awa... 
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Murderer, monster, madman... Khalid may very well be all of those things. But he's also loved. By me... 
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And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder.... 
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I don't think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes ... 
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When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict,... 
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My mother endlessly told me I was too fat, that I wasn't a patch on my sister. It wasn't muc... 
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Can I tell my daughter that I loved her father? This was the man who rubbed my feet at night. He pra... 
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest. 
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