My Sister Quotes - Page 17

• As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do with the fact that my mother was always discussing things with my sister and me - also because I read a lot.

  Tracy Chapman

  Mother, Children, Thinking

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• You have to remember that in the microcosm of Cincinnati, Ohio, through northern Kentucky, my father was a big star, still is. So that made my sister and me really visible. Everybody knew us, talked about us.

  George Clooney

  Stars, Father, Cincinnati Ohio

  "George Clooney: Confessions of a Dirty Mind". Interview with Erik Hedegaard, www.rollingstone.com. November 24, 2011.

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• I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

  Joan Collins

  Sister, Writing, School

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• My family have always supported my rap - and they know I love them when I rap about them - but I'm just Michael Jackson to them. They care more about me. I express my love for them in a much more personal way on this record. It's about our conversations; my fear, and their advice. I know my sisters are gonna hear "Willie Burke Sherwood", which is named for my grandfather, and cry. I used to do music for me, because my ego needed it, but now I'm doing music for my family and friends who helped me become a rapper.

  Killer Mike

  Rap, Advice, Ego

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• One of the great things about being a grandparent is you get to redo what you didn't or couldn't do as a parent. Oftentimes we forget that even while the parent is parenting, they're still a growing person. They're still trying to fix themselves. They're still out there not doing everything a hundred percent correctly. I had the best parents I could ever have, but the kinds of things that they were capable of doing, the things that they said and did, were very destructive to my sister, brother, and me. But they're so much more than those things.

  Rita Williams-Garcia

  Brother, Grandparent, Trying

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the lawn! You can't dribble on grass.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Basketball, Christmas, Dad

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• There was so much anti-Irish sentiment not just from other kids at the school I went to in Britain, but also the teachers themselves. I remember very clearly a lot of the things people said to me and my sisters. And of course those sentiments go back a long way. When my dad visited London in the 50s and was looking for somewhere to stay, there were signs outside boarding houses that said "No blacks, no Irish."

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Teacher, Dad, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Dad, Childhood, Cooking

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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Home, Opportunity

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• I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.

  Naomie Harris

  Nice, Flower, Kissing

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• Talent seduces us into interpretation. My sister could draw wonderfully, but she would never have hit upon the idea of becoming a painter. I never had that extreme talent.

  Georg Baselitz

  Talent, Painter, Seducing

  "Georg Baselitz Is a Sexist Grump". SPIEGEL Interview, hyperallergic.com. January 30, 2013.

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• My sisters would swear that I was the spoiled kid who got everything he wanted, and I would go "No way! I worked my ass off and you guys got everything." We're all kind of in our own narratives.

  Richard Linklater

  Kids, Guy, Kind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

  Patti Smith

  Allies, Grew Up, Strongest

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• Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

  Will Smith

  Years, Goofy, Used

  "Hitch - Will Smith Q&A" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

  "Teen Talks To: Jennifer and Ashley Tisdale". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. January 1, 2008.

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• When I approach a more mature age, I am not going to live in America. Visiting my grandmother, when she was 94, which is a very long life in Cambodia, I saw how important it was that she was in a community with my sisters, brothers and all grandchildren were so involved in her life. I liked that experience so much more than visiting my sister-in-law's grandparents in a nursing home. It's about looking at a community through your window versus being part of a community that's alive, that is youthful and old and hungry and smelly and loud, where everything is vibrant and colorful.

  Loung Ung

  Brother, Home, Grandmother

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to be a composer before anything else. And my sister was listening to Led Zeppelin in the other room! When I heard that, it was a game-changer.

  Steve Vai

  Games, Listening, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.

  Alexa Vega

  Family, Sister, Mom

  "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.

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• I'm fortunate to have an amazing, strong mother who is so supportive of everything me and my sisters did growing up - but she was someone who never forced us to go swim or to go do this or that. She helped us think about certain consequences when we needed to, but we made our own decisions. I think if I were forced to swim, I wouldn't have stayed in the pool as long as I did.

  Michael Phelps

  Mother, Strong, Growing Up

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• My great strength, which I very much believe in, is family. For me, family doesn't simply mean components of DNA. I mean family in the sense of siblings. My mom and my sisters are the energy and inspiration in my life.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Mom, Sibling, Believe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many kids in our family that if we all got in front of the mirror and were ashamed of browns and golds and yellows and whites, and we believed what society told us - that the darker people were less attractive and the lighter ones were prettier - we would have had sibling murders. My family, being half-rural and half-military, just came from a different place.

  Pam Grier

  Beautiful, Sibling, Kids

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Ever since I was a about seven or eight; I think it was seven. My brother said "I want to start acting," and me and my sister just said, "Oh we'll try it, we'll see." It was just one of those things - we were just like, "Oh, we'll see what happens." So we ended up - all my siblings and me - we ended up just trying it, and I got that one role on In Plain Sight and then we just decided to keep going and see what happens. And then: Hunger Games.

  Willow Shields

  Brother, Sibling, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always took a great interest in my clothes. My sister, who was 13 months older, and I always dressed alike, but as I got a little bit older, I didn't like that because I wanted to dress differently. So our mother would put Patty in blue and Polly in pink, or we would wear complementary colors, but the shapes we were wearing were always the same, and I was very interested in that. I also took great interest in my dolls and their clothes.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Mother, Interest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I would go into my three different sisters' rooms in the early-mid '70s and they had very specific different tastes in music. I specifically remember lying on my different sisters' bedroom floors and listening to their record collections. And "Starship Trooper" was one of my sister Nancy's favorite songs and favorite album. Music is so defining for me. In the late '70s and early '80s, I worked in radio. When I was in high school, I worked at two different radio stations.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Song, Lying, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

  Arthur Smith

  Believe, Sister In Law, Narrative

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