- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family Quotes
On heritage, closeness and the pull of family.
These quotes touch on family in different forms: a sports club described as having a family feel, and personal reflections on growing up within a close, sometimes insular, family circle. For devotional lines on family, see our Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Eliminated
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the end of Disney's version of 'Cinderella,' see the stepsisters' eyes get pecked and pecked by doves, because Disney wanted to market the story for wholesome family viewing.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
- Indeed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard for me to generalize about kids and divorce. I think every family's experience is different; some kids are devastated by it, others relieved, and so forth, no matter what generation they're from.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
- Restaurant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from a Cuban family, so we're used to talking really loud. You come to a Cuban restaurant anywhere in Miami, and we're practically screaming at each other.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother died when I was 12, and right after, my dad died in a car crash. I was 15 and had no family. The court sent me to live with my uncle and aunt in Missouri.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've discovered myself a little more, personality-wise just being put through certain situations, whether being in the spotlight, heartbreak, friends coming and going, family.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm fortunate enough to take care of my family and provide for them, and that motivates me to keep going.
- Middle-Class Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a middle-class family in Gwalior.
- Cecil
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- Nov 07, 2020