- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Home Quotes
On comfort, safety and the pull of staying home.
These quotes look at home as both refuge and responsibility: the shock of no longer feeling safe in a place that once felt untouchable, and a quieter preference for staying in over going out. For more, see our Family quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck - as if this cost was just theirs to bear!
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moved back to Buffalo in 2009, and I had this moment where I wanted to have the best of both worlds. I wanted to be able to be in church and cook at home but then still get on a plane and fly back to New York and be this supermodel.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have kids, it can be hard sometimes because you've got to find creative ways to spend time with each other. So with 'Lights Down Low,' I wanted to just write about all the things that we do to try to keep the love alive in creative ways, because you can't always go out on a date... but you can make a date at home.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when you work from home, getting yourself dressed is the first step. I often find there are days where I'll be in my pajamas all day. I feel like a useless human being.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do get scared of the dentist, so a drive-through dentist might make me feel more at home. If I got to stay in my car.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to explore comedy more. It's not something that I've done a lot of. Obviously, I'm very at home in drama. I like everything.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I'm home alone.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's very natural for me now. A lot of airplanes, a lot of flights, a lot of hotels. Go home to pack and leave. But I'm used to it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been thinking a lot about next year, which will be the first time in 25 years that I don't have a child at home.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020