Mum Quotes - Page 19

• I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

  Julie Walters

  Wanted

  "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

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• Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Brother, Dad

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• On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad.

  Julian Lennon

  Dad, Hands, Normal

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• In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?

  Susie Orbach

  Beautiful, Men, Goes On

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• I speak a little bit of Italian, yeah. I understand more than I speak. I speak more of a dialect; my mum's from Naples and my dad's from Sicily, so it comes out little a bit of a cocktail of the Italian language.

  Luke Pasqualino

  Dad, Italian, Dialect

  "Discovery: Luke Pasqualino" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 12, 2012.

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• My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

  Felicity Jones

  Italian, Vanity, Bags

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• Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

  Hayley Atwell

  Religious, Important, Theatre

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• My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a couple of times when I was really quite young. I didn't really like her music back then because my mum was always playing it, but I've grown to appreciate it more.

  Katy B

  Couple, Play, Appreciate

  "Katy B: Soundtrack of my life" by Luke Bainbridge, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2011.

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• My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

  Kelly Brook

  Drug, Rebel, Watches

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

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• I've always said that kids should enhance your life, not hinder your life, so I just try to make the most out of being with my kids. You have to have a life for yourself somewhere in the mix of being a wife and mum.

  Melanie Brown

  Kids, Wife, Trying

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

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• In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.

  Toni Braxton

  Hate, Love Is, Broken

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

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• I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad.

  Abbie Cornish

  Dad, Kids, Wales

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• My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

  Abbie Cornish

  Artist, Expression, Creative

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• I'm part Maori. My mum's Maori, and she raised me. And my grandma, she's Maori.

  Jemaine Clement

  Grandma, Raised, My Grandma

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.

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• My mum calls my temper 'Devilman.' They say you calm down with age, but I don't know. It never goes away.

  Vinnie Jones

  Age, Calm, Temper

  "Vinnie Jones: 'It took me 40 years to see a psychologist'". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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• My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

  Gemma Arterton

  Play, Film, My Family

  "The Saturday interview: Gemma Arterton". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Your private life should be private. I reckon that's a good thing that you talk about your work and you talk about what you're doing, but without having to go into how your brother's been and how your mum's been because none of that's really relevant.

  Keisha Castle-Hughes

  Brother, Good Things, Should

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

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• I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Catholic, Church, Comfort

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now.

  Ronnie Wood

  Uncles, Dad, Two

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• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• My mum's from Yorkshire and my parents aren't snotty or posh - they're very hard workers, both of them.

  Sally Phillips

  Hard Work, Parent, Yorkshire

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• My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

  Naveen Andrews

  Decision, Language, Conscious

  "I was seen as either a junkie or a drunk" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2008.

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• But while mum and dad were incredibly caring, it was also a very chaotic household where everyone fought about everything. So I know what it's like to internalize all that chaos.

  Dave Eggers

  Dad, Caring, Chaos

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• In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

  Gillian Anderson

  Jobs, Children, Dad

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• Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family.

  Tony Scott

  Matriarchs, Patriarch

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