- Culture
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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
- Figuring
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
For the baby boomer generation, a home is now seen not as the cornerstone of advancement but a ball and chain, restricting their ability and their mobility to move and seek out a job at another location.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.
- Nov 07, 2020
And remember don't high post when you're far from home, and high posting when you're all alone.
- Nov 07, 2020
Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a show that you played at home and you're saying to the contestant do this and do that. When you at home are involved in yelling at the screen, then you know you've got an audience.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
When peaceful reunification comes, the first thing I want to do is to take my 90-year-old mother and go to her home town.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I am most at home in London, I cannot really label myself as either British or Trinidadian. I write in the English language and live in the U.K. I find it hard to say that I am an entirely British writer, especially when I supported Trinidad in the 2006 World Cup and also support the West Indies cricket team.
- Elicit
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- Nov 07, 2020
My true memory has been tainted by old home videos of my sister and I, ages 3 and 5 respectively, singing karaoke to Britney Spears' 'Lucky' in our living room, and tape recordings of my parents trying to elicit songs out of our throats at a similar or younger age.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a mother is sitting in a chair at the office, someone needs to be at home with her child. In some cases, that is a father. Much of the time, the material manifestation of the conflict is a nanny.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020