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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
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in New York. My family has been in New York City since the Civil War. I have a ton of N.Y.C. in my DNA, from both sides of my family. I had a wonderful childhood in the city.
- Different Roles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been lucky enough to play many different roles from darker characters to family orientated shows to comedy.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two most important things is, one, the music in my life, and the family. It's somehow connected because music is about human beings, about love, about hate, about everything that happens in life.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think first thing and the most important thing, for me, is that Boston becomes my musical home, my musical family.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think touring is an important part of the life of an orchestra. Not only sharing with other audiences, but bringing that sense of family that you get back home. The sense of growing deeper into the music, of making it all sound like chamber music - that comes from being together on tour.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
You must take care of your family, respect the music, and work intensely. Health and family come first, and then you can make much better music.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and may not necessarily serve a company's interests. But by and large, financial firms in particular commonly hire people who have certain connections, whether through family or a business relationship.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Story Of A Marriage' was initially a short story I wrote, and before that, it was a family story. It was a story that a relative of mine told me about herself in the '50s, and it was a story that no one else in my family believes, and it might not be true.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up, I kept hoping that I wasn't really gay because I wanted to have children. I went through a long, tortured period, so the fact that I have been able to be true to myself and have a family has been the nicest surprise of my adulthood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately for me, my mother loved travel. Our first non-beach family trip abroad - to England, France, and Switzerland - came when I was 11, and thereafter, we often tagged along on my father's European business trips.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a family man, I have kids, and I go to the movies. And I'm just going to make the kind of movie I want to see.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tie my wedding ring around my neck with an old shoelace. It's to remind me of why I play cricket: for my family - my wife Ruth and my boys Sam and Luca.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020