Mum Quotes - Page 11

• I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here.

  Tommy Flanagan

  Home, Phones, Scotland

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

  David Cassidy

  Eye, Hair, Looks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit - and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

  Paloma Faith

  School, Thinking, Next Day

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• My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.

  Patsy Kensit

  Christian, Stars, Dior

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values" by Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2011.

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  Gary Kemp

  Dad, Thinking, Important

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• I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

  Jay Kay

  Two, Feet, Kicking

  "Jay Kay: 'Getting an award on Top Gear is better than getting a Grammy'". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. October 31, 2010.

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• I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Dad, Grandchildren, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mum had a job fitting upholstery into cars, but, in the evenings, she worked as a seamstress.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Jobs, Car, Upholstery

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• I was away a lot on 'Countdown' when the children were young and I couldn't have done it without Mum's help. Because she was at home running all of that, I never had to worry about them.

  Carol Vorderman

  Running, Children, Home

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

  Carol Vorderman

  Regret, Divorce, Thinking

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• My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

  Carol Vorderman

  Father, Years, Three

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• One day Mum saved up for this exciting new thing - a frozen chicken. She cooked it on the Sunday and we all sat around waiting for it, but there was a terrible smell from the kitchen. She didn't realise that the giblets were in a plastic bag inside it. We just ate vegetables and she cried and cried.

  Carol Vorderman

  Sunday, Smell, Vegetables

  "Carol Vorderman: My family values". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2011.

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• My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.

  Dominic West

  Dad, Parent, Ireland

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

  Lee Westwood

  Dad, Winning, Nuts

  "Lee Westwood: the secret toughness of a natural No1". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

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• I'm a new mum who spends her days making baby food and cooking for her man. And I couldn't be happier.

  Rebecca Loos

  Baby, Men, Cooking

  "Rebecca Loos says being a new mum is better than having affairs with footballers" by Jody Thompson, www.mirror.co.uk. February 23, 2010.

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• I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger.

  Nick Moran

  Dad, War, Night

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Mother, Advice, Sides

  Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum."

  Andrew Sullivan

  Mother, Eight, Said

  "Andrew Sullivan, American by Choice". Interview with Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. November 16, 2011.

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• I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.

  Martine McCutcheon

  Safe, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.

  Zayn Malik

  Kids, House, Used

  "One Direction's Zayn Malik: 'I was a handful as a child'" by Rebecca Davies, www.digitalspy.com. September 18, 2011.

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• It wasn't through choice that I became a mum at 36. I wanted to be a young mum but things never worked out for me.

  Denise Van Outen

  Choices, Young, Wanted

  "Denise Van Outen interview: I wanted to be a young mum but it wasn't to be". www.mirror.co.uk. January 1, 2011.

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• I think my mum has the foulest mouth of anyone I've ever met.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Thinking, Mouths, Mets

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• I'd be the best mum ever. I would. I've got great training from my mum.

  Kelly Osbourne

  Training, Being The Best

  "Kelly Osbourne’s Baby Fever: ‘I’d Be The Best Mum Ever’". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.

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• My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

  Rita Ora

  Couple, Dad, Sweetest

  "Riotous Rita Ora talks wardrobe malfunctions, Jay-Z, Eurovision and getting smashed on whiskey" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. August 24, 2012.

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• I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

  Teresa Palmer

  Running, Dad, Kids

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