My Brother Quotes - Page 34

• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  Sally Hawkins

  Brother, Dad, Inspiration

  "Happy-Go-Lucky Interview". Interview with Anna Smith, www.ign.com. April 18, 2008.

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• My brother went on to have a long and sordid career.

  Darrell Issa

  Brother, Careers, Long

  "Issa's Rags-to-Riches Tale Has Some Ugly Chapters" by Eric Lichtblau, articles.latimes.com. May 23, 1998.

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• I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

  Curtis Joseph

  Running, Brother, Golf

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• I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

  Josephus

  Mother, Brother, Memories

  Flavius Josephus (1824). “The Genuine Works of Flavius Josephus: Containing four books of the Antiquities of the Jews. With the life of Josephus”, p.202

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• I come from a family of all women and one boy, my brother. We're all women and we're all precocious and opinionated and like to have fun and we always had friends in the house and we were always, like, half-naked.

  Jemima Kirke

  Brother, Fun, Boys

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

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• I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

  Patsy Kensit

  Mother, Brother, Want

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• I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Girl, Brother, Writing

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• I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

  John Mahoney

  Brother, Parent, Lessons

  "Take a chance on me" by Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2002.

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• My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

  Rob James-Collier

  Mom, Brother, Dad

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

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• I can't remember a time when my mom didn't work. She has forever been on the move: a go-getter. When my brother Adel and I had a paper route as kids, my mom would get up before us at the crack of dawn to drop off the Washington Post at different corners.

  Hoda Kotb

  Mom, Brother, Moving

  "Hoda Kotb on her mom hero". www.today.com. April 25, 2012.

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• I was a nut for Dostoevsky. You can tell a lot from what people read between those ages. My brother was a Steinbeck freak and now he lives in a little village in New Hampshire and he's a baker.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Brother, Nuts, People

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• Growing up, I had a very normal relationship with my brother and sister. But, over time, they became my best friends, and now I hang out with them all the time. I'm very close with them.

  Logan Lerman

  Brother, Growing Up, My Best Friend

  "Get to Know Fall's Hot Guys!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. September 19, 2011.

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• My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

  Pedro Martinez

  Brother, Kids, Opportunity

  "Answer Man: Pedro Martinez talks God, Boston and flowers". Interview with David Brown, sports.yahoo.com. September 4, 2009.

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• Everyone I'm photographing, I feel like I'm remaking a family, in a way. My brothers and sisters are my heroes. So many of my models resemble them.

  Ryan McGinley

  Brother, Hero, Way

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• All my work, really, is based on my brothers and sisters. I had so many adventures with them and a big part of the work is to recreate those. It's easy for me to be around a lot of people, because I can retreat. I can watch everything.

  Ryan McGinley

  Brother, Adventure, People

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• I have a really big family, and pretty much all my work is about my brothers and sisters. I'm the youngest of eight - my mom had seven kids in seven years, and then she had me 11 years later - so I was basically raised by all these teenagers.

  Ryan McGinley

  Mom, Brother, Teenager

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• There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

  Gary Neville

  Brother, Sorry, Careers

  "Ashley Young emerges from the fog to give England a winger windfall" by Paul Hayward, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2011.

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• My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Brother, New York, Film

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

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• I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Brother, Important, Pilots

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• I'm not much like my mother; that role falls to my brothers, who have more of her blithe and freewheeling spirit.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Mother, Brother, Fall

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• Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

  Diana Lopez

  Girl, Mom, Strong

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• You know, me winning two gold medals, going for a third one, that's nice. But being there with Mark and my sister, and my brother being the coach, it's a dream come true. It's going to be awesome.

  Diana Lopez

  Dream, Brother, Nice

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• I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.

  Diana Lopez

  Mom, Perseverance, Brother

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• I've been training super hard at the Lopez Taekwondo Academy in Houston, which belongs to my brother Jean. For me, I think confidence is the biggest thing; it's all mental. I train with the best of the best, including my brother Steven, a five-time world champion who won Olympic gold medals.

  Diana Lopez

  Brother, Thinking, Champion

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• Wayne's World' is my all time favorite comedy. I used to watch it on VHS on repeat with my brother when I was ten years old.

  James Lafferty

  Brother, Years, Watches

  "James Lafferty Loves Harry Potter, and Other Facts You Never Knew About the One Tree Hill Hottie". Interview with Caitlin Brody, www.glamour.com. January 18, 2012.

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