Francesca Annis
Related My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ... PAUL GIAMATTI My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a column... SIOBHAN FALLON HOGAN DAVID CASSIDY JILL LEPORE My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ... LAURA BENANTI TRACY MORGAN JAMES CAMERON LAUREN BACALL SIMON VAN DER MEER My mother was a sociologist and an intellectual, and my father was an industrialist with a business ... CARMEN BUSQUETS OMARI HARDWICK TYLER PERRY BARBRA STREISAND ICE T My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN YAYOI KUSAMA I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved... ROBERT POWELL CARRIE FISHER My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my ... JULIAN FELLOWES AL PACINO WALE PAULA DANZIGER When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st... JANE BIRKIN HARVEY FIERSTEIN I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro... JOSEPH ABBOUD My mom, she wasn't like a baseball mother who knew everything about the game. She just wanted me... DAVID ORTIZ GEORGE WEINBERG MICKEY ROONEY SALLY FIELD My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. ARTHUR ROCK PATTI SMITH TESS GERRITSEN JOAN LINGARD DONALD TRUMP STEVE MARTIN My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper Ne... ALAN HOVHANESS JOHN PIPER My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well... RICHIE HAVENS My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father did... RUTH RENDELL DAVID NICHOLLS TINA TURNER My mother's family is Christian: her father was a Baptist lay preacher, and her brother, in a le... SHEREEN EL FEKI My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedd... SAMANTHA BOND I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. VONDA SHEPARD GERARD BUTLER My mother always tells me that when I was a little kid, my first ambition was to be a truck driver, ... PREITY ZINTA My mother was actually born in Ohio but raised in West Virginia where her family had a laundry. She ... LAURENCE YEP EDMUND WHITE My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you get... DANIELLE BROOKS ROBERT WINSTON XAVIER DOLAN CHRISTY TURLINGTON SHILPA SHETTY MIREILLE GUILIANO I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha... PATRICIA HEATON My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. ... CHRISTOPHER JUDGE I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very... CHARLES KIMBROUGH I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ... ANEURIN BARNARD CHIWETEL EJIOFOR My father was an alcoholic. My mother was gone. She's the only mother I ever knew. CHARLES PLANCON My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, a... JORGE M. PEREZ SALMAN RUSHDIE KIM CATTRALL ICE T ANDREA JUNG When I showed up at UH, my hair was past my waist. I had a goatee. I wasn't a theater geek; I wa... BRETT CULLEN I come from a magnetic field of Catholicism. I was baptised by my mother's family, who were all ... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI CHARLES KURALT Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha... MARTIN CLUNES My mother is not a CIA agent, but she's an Italian mother, and she'd do anything for her son... ADRIANO GIANNINI NATALIE MERCHANT SHERRILYN KENYON My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was g... MICHAEL HANEKE I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother... KAJOL My mother was a mother. She didn't really work, apart from bringing us up, which a job in itself... TOM PARKER BOWLES DONALD TRUMP, JR. JOAN COLLINS Because the intention wasn't always to be an actor, that hasn't been my number one guiding p... DAVID ALPAY JAYNE MEADOWS VINCE VAUGHN JANET FITCH I was raised by my great-great aunt. I was adopted within our family. My mother had me when she was,... ERIC DICKERSON I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was somethi... CARMEN EJOGO My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in... NORMAN LAMM 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 was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything. H. R. GIGER PAT CONROY She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess wi... BARBARA COONEY S. E. HINTON LIZA MINNELLI Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my... DORIS EATON TRAVIS I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite ... DANIEL WOODRELL As a kid, I grew up middle class, but my father was a great innovator with an entrepreneurial spirit... BETSY DEVOS My mother was born on a tiny farm in County Mayo. She was meant to stay at home and look after the f... JULIE WALTERS SALMA HAYEK LYNN JOHNSTON 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 CARLOS SLIM Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my ... YASMINE AL MASRI HILL HARPER
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The amount of wor... FRANCESCA REIGLER Everyone's interesting if you stare at them long enough. FRANCESCA ZAPPIA It seemed to me that so much of America's myth, stories, visions and iconographic images are in many... FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO But she is good, ... It was the first time that I saw her and I just tried to do my job. I had to ru... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE I'm looking forward to playing against Francesca, ... We are very good friends, so even if she beats... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE You just fight. In the first set she just had that little bit extra, and it was the same for me in t... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE The humidity is high. You have to change your shirt, you have to drink correct, eat correct, sleep c... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE In the second set I tried to serve better and to do better with my return and make her play what she... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE You don't know it, but I'm a vertical megabrand with cross-media platforms FRANCESCA CASTAGNOLI Something very personal. To prove myself, to keep going and believe in myself. It's not just a troph... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE I became part of your fantasy, hoping that one day you would become part of mine! FRANCESCA MULONE People say teenagers think they're immortal, and I agree with that. But I think there's a difference... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far? FRANCESCA BATTISTELLI I was very focused, very motivated and I had good tactics, FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, b... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs a... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA Intelligence is not measured by how much you know, but by how much you have the capacity to learn. FRANCESCA ZAPPIA If you want the motivation back, you must feed it Feed it everything. Books, television, movies, pai... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA It was very tough, but I was tired because I had problems with the flight and it took me 40 hours to... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE Did you meet your soul mate? That always happens on the first day of school, right?'FRANCESCA ZAPPIA It was a nice match, nothing special but it's not easy because it was the first match of the year, FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE Lindsay is great champion, FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE It's very difficult playing against another Italian. Flavia and I are very good friends. We were tog... FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE It's very difficult playing against another Italian, FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE We notice that once we starting focusing on works of art, the anxiety seems to melt away. They just ... FRANCESCA ROSENBERG Really, what these individuals are doing is what many people want to do when they visit the museum, ... FRANCESCA ROSENBERG This means that a reduction in fine particulate matter levels should provide health benefits in term... FRANCESCA DOMINICI In Cook County, for example, about once every five days you'll have an increase in fine particulate ... FRANCESCA DOMINICI Our study is specific to the elderly, but there is epidemiological evidence that air pollution also ... FRANCESCA DOMINICI When we analyzed the data for heart failure, we observed a 1.28 percent increase in admissions for e... FRANCESCA DOMINICI This study provides strong evidence that daily hospital admission rates for cardiovascular diseases ... FRANCESCA DOMINICI When we analyzed the data for heart failure, we observed a 1.28% increase in admissions for each 10 ... FRANCESCA DOMINICI Most of these admissions occurred the same day as the rise in fine particle concentration, which sug... FRANCESCA DOMINICI Identifying the various factors that might contribute to these differences between eastern and weste... FRANCESCA DOMINICI Over 100 million people in the United States live in areas that exceed the National Ambient Air Qual... FRANCESCA DOMINICI Many beggars always have puppies. They buy them on the illegal market for a few euros (dollars). The... FRANCESCA CANTALINI Many beggars always have puppies. They buy them on the illegal market for a few euros. The puppies a... FRANCESCA CANTALINI Many beggars always have puppies. They buy them on the illegal market for a few euros. FRANCESCA CANTALINI Obviously he lives with his dogs and takes good care of them, they are much better off with him than... FRANCESCA CANTALINI We'd rather educate than punish people. We talk to owners about their pet and try to check back with... FRANCESCA CANTALINI I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control... FRANCESCA MARCIANO Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage... FRANCESCA MARCIANO When Placido wanted to do it (the Ring) I was very excited to do it here. So many of the stories in ... FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO What's with the Raggedy Ann on the bed? That's terrible! FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO The character, a poor factory girl, would have something much smaller, much simpler. FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO That was the first time there was this incredible media hype around a murder. Was it murder? Was it ... FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO We are creating a world in some ways familiar to our audience but also one that will feel very mythi... FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO Working with Placido Domingo, we have coined the term 'American Ring,' and the designers and I are u... FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO If nothing’s real, then what does it matter?” he said. “You live here. Doesn’t that make it ... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present. FRANCESCA MARCIANO The first thing I noticed about East Shoal High School was that it didn't have a bike rack. You know... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA Broken people don't hide from their monsters. Broken people let themselves be eaten. FRANCESCA ZAPPIA Maybe that’s normal. The things you care most about are the ones that leave the biggest holes. FRANCESCA ZAPPIA There is no difficult moment working together because when we start a new project, Dante starts to m... FRANCESCA LO SCHIAVO When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in inte... FRANCESCA LO SCHIAVO Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on se... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done wi... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. ... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we g... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and ... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I do suspect that this world is hell. FRANCESCA DA RIMINI Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs. FRANCESCA DA RIMINI Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin. FRANCESCA DA RIMINI Love is a dangerous angel. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I stand here waiting. To disappear or sing. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches ... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and sh... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK If you want to find the trail, if you want to find yourself, you must explore your dreams alone. You... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured w... FRANCESCA M. CANCIAN nothing is important is you don't feel yuo are important for your self... FRANCESCA DE NARDI Sometimes a wild horse needs to feel that his rider is just a little bit wilder. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the ill... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK My reading and studying and retellings of old stories didn't do anything except help me think better... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Magic can be found in stolen moments. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I want him to see the flowers in my eyes and hear the songs in my hands. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK A kiss about apple pie a la mode with the vanilla creaminess melting in the pie heat. A kiss about c... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Witch Baby wanted to ask Ping how to find her Jah-Love angel. She knew Raphael was not him, even tho... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK my answer to the quote of Massimo Suppancig “It's the Italian way of expressing luxury. Based on t... FRANCESCA DE NARDI They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Do you know when they say soul-mates? Everybody uses it in personal ads. "Soul-mate wanted". It does... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Life was small but good. (15) FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Everything was chocolate ice cream and kisses and wind. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happenin... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I will not eat cakes or cookies or food. I will be thin, thin, pure. I will be pure and empty. Weigh... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK But death is stronger than that and when you cover your eyes you are the one who can't see the dark.... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Be love because you are. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK And when it is over he will say, Come live with me above the palm trees, eat chocolate eggs in hotel... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I will go to campus alone dressed in antique silk slips and beat-up cowboy boots and gypsy beads, an... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK There’s nowhere to escape,” Dobey said, jamming his hands into his pockets and staring into the ... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK L.A. kills people.' Jacaranda said. 'You're lucky you're leaving. You'll be able to write.'FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK I dreamed you were standing in this dark place and you touched these dead flowers and they lit up li... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK No matter where I am, I am always loving you. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Weetzie could not even cry and make Kleenex roses. She remembered the day her father, Charlie, had d... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken glass. ... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above groundFRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic und... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Dirk, this is Peace, Granola, Crystal, Chi, Aura, Tahini, and the twins, Yin and Yang," Duck said. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK No one noticed Witch Baby as she went back inside the cottage, into the room she and Cherokee shared... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK So Witch Baby played. Tossing her head, sucking in her cheeks and popping up with the impact of each... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Under the twinkling trees was a table covered with Guatemalan fabric, roses in juice jars, wax rose ... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK He might be faithless but I believe in him. FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool? FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK You always fed strays and bent down to talk to the dogs you met on the street, looking straight into... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle... 
My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with... 
I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She mad... 
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer. 
My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy ... 
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family. 
I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you'... 
My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was tryi... 
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my... 
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders... 
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man. 
She has been more than a mother than me - not much, but definitely more... She's been an unsolic... 
When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, a... 
I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Ni... 
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried abou... 
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ... 
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked ou... 
I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brake... 
When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!&#... 
My mother and father had so many ups and downs and stayed with each other and helped each other. My ... 
My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting ... 
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... 
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... 
But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of h... 
My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, ... 
David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha... 
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although ... 
I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above worki... 
I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for ... 
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... 
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but th... 
I grew up Catholic. My mother is from El Salvador, so my family on her side is Roman Catholic. My fa... 
I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she ... 
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I wanted to be an actor ever since I got on stage for the first time, aged 13. Before that, I though... 
I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I... 
My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went ... 
My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother w... 
My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on... 
My mother was a single working mother; she started having children very young. There was a tension i... 
My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—"
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My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French ex... 
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strengt... 
My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough... 
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My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man. 
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I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes. 
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