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Mom Quotes
"Over the years my mom has become a self-taught Biblical scholar."
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"My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music."
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"Being a working mom is not easy. You have to be willing to screw up at every level."
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"Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three."
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"I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, 'My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.' I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I'd had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I'd like to do that again."
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"Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy."
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"I had been inspired by an organ player named Earl Grant, who played organ and piano together. My mom took me to see him. So I went home, put my piano and organ together, too."
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"They very seldom let me lose my cool. They made me like I was Polly Perfect, which was ridiculous so that when I bump into kids on the street they'd say 'I wish my Mom were like you.'"
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"My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Mom's cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop."
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"A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego."
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"Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her."
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"Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public."
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"When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical."
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"My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom."
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"Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states."
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"My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity."
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"I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's."
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"I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing."
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"Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste."
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"Simon is cool. You know, it's different if you ever see him around his mom. He acts totally different."
Mom,
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