- Loved
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life revolved around TV as a kid. I would come home and make sure I finished my homework every night by 8 o'clock, generally so that I could sit down and watch TV from 8 to 10. As a kid, it was 'Family Ties' and 'Roseanne' and 'Growing Pains' and 'Perfect Strangers' and 'Golden Girls.' I mean, I watched everything.
- Getting Dressed
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floor room when a family of Italians crossed the grass to watch, as if I were laid on for their amusement and instruction.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's more of a family connection when you're working on a TV show. That's not to say that you don't make great connections when you're working on films, but it's different unless you're there working every day.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think American family sitcoms are mean. I guess I really love 'Arrested Development.' I guess they are quite mean in that, but that is also a very silly, surreal, absurd show as well, and it has got a heart as well.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other.
- Wait
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- Nov 07, 2020
Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first time I listened to Coldplay, I was at a train station in Paris with my family on holiday. I put on 'Clocks' on my discman, and I fell in love.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very close with my family and friends.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a musical family, and Carnatic music made up so much of my childhood, my upbringing, and my musical transition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole family is involved in the arts - my sister is a professional Bharatnatyam dancer, and my dad helps me out on the music business end.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thanks to my family and guru. They were quite confident that I could do it and think about music as a full-time career.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
- Communication
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- Nov 07, 2020