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"I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children."

"I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children."

Nicole Kidman, Australian Actress

Mother, Sister, Daughter, Children

8

"I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name."

"I don't have a bank account because I don't know my mother's maiden name."

Paula Poundstone, American Comedian

Mother, Bank account, Name

8

"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video."

"There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video."

Dan Aykroyd, Canadian Comedian

8

"You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading."

"You didn't hear the angels singing. It was brought down to Mother Earth, which is where it should be. And that led me to a lot of other reading."

Harvey Keitel, American Actor

Mother, Angels, Earth, Reading

8

"The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are."

"The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are."

Christopher Eccleston, English Actor

Mother, Father, Crisis, Film

8

"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad."

"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad."

Conrad Veidt, German Actor

8

"Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries."

"Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries."

Colin Mochrie, Scottish Actor

8

"I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him."

"I'm terrible at relationships. I consider myself to be smart and a good mother but it's taken me this long to realise you don't have to marry a guy after three days or dump him."

Sheena Easton, Scottish Musician

Mother, Relationships

8

"When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!"

"When I was little, my mother taught me how to use a fork and knife. The trouble is that Mother forget to teach me how to stop using them!"

Hattie McDaniel, American Actress

Mother, Forget, Trouble

8

"If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope."

"If my mother knew I did this for a living, she'd kill me. She thinks I'm selling dope."

Henny Youngman, American Comedian

Mother, Selling, Living

8

"I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell."

"I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell."

Julie Walters, British Actress

Mother, Daughter, Hell

8

"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."

"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."

Teri Garr, American Actress

Mother, Help, Want, Will

8

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother."

"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

8

"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."

"With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A mother refuses to pick out one as a favorite, and I can't do any better with the dances."

Twyla Tharp, American Dancer

Mother, Children, Favorite

8

"But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street."

"But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street."

Mink Stole, American Actress

Mother, End, Now

8

"My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother."

"My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother."

Ronnie Spector, American Musician

8

"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."

"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."

Clifford Geertz, American Scientist

Mother, Father, Brother, African

8

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."

Ziyi Zhang, Chinese Actress

8

"A mother's love is the morning sunshine that always enlightens our way."

"A mother's love is the morning sunshine that always enlightens our way."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Mother, Sunshine, Guidance

8

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father."

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father."

Roger von Oech, American Author

Mother, Father, Invention, May

7

"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."

"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since."

Abigail Adams, American First Lady

Mother, Thought, Knowledge, Daughters

7

"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."

"For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift."

Wernher von Braun, German Scientist

Mother, Thought, Boys, First

7

"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying."

"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying."

Mikhail Baryshnikov, American Dancer

Mother, People, Party, Russia

7

"If I were like your mother, I would be a woman."

"If I were like your mother, I would be a woman."

Ryan Stiles, American Actor

7

"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully."

"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully."

Chris Brown, American Musician

7

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner."

"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner."

Halle Berry, American Actress

7

"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."

"I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me."

Carol Burnett, American Actress

Mother, Girls, Growing up

7

"When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes."

"When my mother died, I had to go on air that night and do jokes."

Graham Kennedy, Australian Entertainer

Mother, Jokes, Night

7

"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her."

"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her."

Linda Lavin, American Actress

7

"I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me."

"I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me."

Marc Wallice, American Actor

Mother, Friend, Nothing, Want

7

"Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before."

"Being a mother adds another emotional dimension, a feel for children that I didn't have before I had one. They were a pain before."

Julie Walters, British Actress

Mother, Being, Children, Pain

7

"I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."

"I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long."

Marie Antoinette, French Royalty

Mother, Wife, HusbBlood, Children

7

"For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible."

"For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It's hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible."

Alison Lohman, American Actress

Mother, Daughter

7

"When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx."

"When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx."

Cy Coleman, American Composer

Mother, Old, Years

7

"My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America."

"My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America."

Jack Bowman, English Actor

Mother, Heart, America, Medicine

7

"My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered."

"My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered."

Gene Kelly, American Actor

Mother, Idea, Dancing, Job

7

"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."

"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."

Broderick Crawford, American Actor

7

"I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker."

"I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker."

Les Paul, American Musician

7

"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

Christopher Durang, American Playwright

Mother, Father, Thought, Profession

7

"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."

"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Mother, Being, Disaster

7

"The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex."

"The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex."

Wynonna Judd, American Musician

7

"There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect."

"There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect."

Roseanne Barr, American Actress

Mother, People, Being, Hell

7

"You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico."

"You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico."

Jennifer Esposito, American Actress

Mother, Father, Geography, Want

7

"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem."

"Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem."

William Petersen, American Actor

Mother, Father, Animals, Being

7

"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."

"I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage."

Elizabeth Taylor, English Actress

Mother, Courage, Baby

7

"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."

"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."

Missy Elliot, American Musician

7

"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."

"My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary."

Lynn Johnston, American Cartoonist

Mother, Vocabulary

7

"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation."

"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation."

Franz Liszt, Hungarian Composer

Mother, Children, Language

7

"It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother."

"It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother."

Charles Pierce, American Entertainer

7

"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."

"My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized."

Martin Short, American Actor

Mother, Absurdity, Eccentricity

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