Mum Quotes - Page 18

• I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything.

  Dan Stevens

  Dad, Real, Grateful

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

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• I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, House, Flats

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• In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Father, Home, Kids

  "X Factor culture fuelled the UK riots, says Iain Duncan Smith" by Paul Lewis, Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2011.

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• I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Daughter, Mother, Dirty

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• The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in!

  Jill Scott

  Art, Growing Up, Grandmother

  "Jill Scott: 'I was told I'd never have kids - my son is due in 5 weeks". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2009.

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• I'm going to be a strict mum. I know that love is the most important thing - you've got to have lots of kisses and cuddles - but you also need to mix it with discipline or you'll be in a heap of trouble.

  Jill Scott

  Kissing, Love Is, Discipline

  "Jill Scott: 'I was told I'd never have kids - my - son is due in 5 weeks'". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. March 22, 2009.

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• Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

  Kevin Rudd

  Anger, Years, Hatred

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Wind

  "Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living". Interview with Corinne Podger, www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2011.

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• And that's my honour, that's what my goal is, to always keep my mum's name ringing, because I know what sacrifices she went through for me.

  Ray Lewis

  Sacrifice, Names, Goal

  "NFL: Ray Lewis tells Baltimore Ravens 'You got to play the game pissed off'". Interview with Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2012.

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• There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.

  Tracey Ullman

  Children, Different, Gone

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• I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

  Ville Valo

  Spiritual, Country, Religious

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• I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

  Sid Vicious

  Music, Vicious, Vicious Circles

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• It's like coming back to the womb. I'm coming back to my mum and it's wonderful to see her. It's the best space in the world. If it wasn't for this place I don't know what I'd have done with my life.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Space, Done, World

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• Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.

  Jesse Spencer

  Nightmare, Rebellious, Choir

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I got knockback after knockback at auditions. Just before ‘Mulholland Dr.’ my agent told me I was so intense I was freaking people out. She told me I was a brilliant actor but the feedback was that I made people feel uncomfortable because I was so nervous and intense. I just sat there and blubbed. My mum was staying in LA at the time and I went to her and said: ‘I just can’t do this. I’m not cut out for it.’ She just said: ‘Don’t believe a word people say about you. Forget them.’

  Naomi Watts

  Believe, Cutting, People

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• Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Dad, Love You, Acting

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

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• I came out of my mum's stomach going, 'I want to be an actor!'

  Emilia Clarke

  Actors, Want, Stomach

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• My mum told me always to wear heels. If I'm not wearing heels, she says, 'What? You're in flats?' So whenever I see her, I make sure I have heels with me.

  Julia Restoin Roitfeld

  Flats, Heels, Ifs

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• Ask yourself constantly "Am I treating my fellow citizens as I treat my mum?"

  Tommy Sheridan

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• So finally, I can feel a sort of pride in all my family - Mum, Lynn, Corin, Tasha, my cousin Gemma - because, I think how wonderful that this troop of gypsies can carry on telling stories.

  Joely Richardson

  Cousin, Pride, Thinking

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

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• I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

  Matthew Williamson

  Fashion, Real, Bed

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• My mum and my dad they both like to sing they have really nice voices and my sister and my brother actually they are good singers too. I've been really blessed actually more than most to have a really good people around me.

  Lana Del Rey

  Brother, Dad, Nice

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• I feel like I'm one of the many working mothers. And I only have one child. I know working mums who have three or four. It's definitely a challenge but it's a wonderful challenge to be able to do both.

  Rachel Weisz

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Children

  "Rachel Weisz interview: A spy in the house of love" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2011.

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• For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

  Rachel Weisz

  Has Beens

  "Rachel Weisz interview: A spy in the house of love" by Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 27, 2011.

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• I love Karl Lagerfeld. I worship him. I was brought up in Paris, and my mum used to wear a lot of Chanel. I love the brand.

  Emma Watson

  Love, Paris, Age

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