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"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

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"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

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"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior."

"My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Mother, Behavior, Years

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"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks."

"The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

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"Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away."

"Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away."

Sheryl Lee, American Actor

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"It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed."

"It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed."

Fay Wray, American Actress

Mother, Being, Parents

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"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"

"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"

Loni Anderson, American Actress

Mother, Daughter, Hair, Saying

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"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."

"Well ironically my last three roles have all been a mother. One was a Canadian film where the baby was taken away because she is a drug addict, in Irish Jam I play a mother to a four year old. I think in the future I'll be able to handle the role with a lot more depth."

Anna Friel, English Actress

Mother, Baby, Film, Future

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"Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly."

"Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly."

Aaron Neville, American Musician

Mother, Growing up

35

"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."

"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."

Dominic Chianese, American Actor

Mother, Father, Grandparents

35

"My mother answers all my fan mail."

"My mother answers all my fan mail."

Patti Smith, American Musician

Mother, Answers, Mail

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"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."

Jack Nicholson, American Actor

Mother, Son, Irony

35

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."

"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."

Isabella Rossellini, Italian Actress

Mother, Competition, Want

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"My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist."

"My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist."

Michael Bergin, American Actor

Mother, Father, Police, State

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"One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms."

"One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Mother, Daughter, Being, Kids

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"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

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"I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved."

"I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved."

Gary Oldman, English Actor

Mother, Sisters

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"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania."

"My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania."

Herbie Mann, American Musician

Mother, Father, Russia

34

"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother."

"Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother."

Claudette Colbert, French Actress

Mother, Grandparents

34

"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."

"Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco."

Eric Allin Cornell, American Physicist

Mother, Sister, Brother, School

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"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

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"I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities."

"I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities."

Tony Curtis, American Actor

Mother, Care, Navy

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"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated."

"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated."

Moon Unit Zappa, American Musician

Mother, Thought, First, Help

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"Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me."

"Lately I've been going to all these high schools talking to the students, answering their questions, listening to what they have to say. It has been an incredible journey to be around them and try to give them what my mother gave me."

Jill Scott, American Musician

Mother, Journey, Listening, Questions

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"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."

"My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up."

Alison Bechdel, American Cartoonist

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"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

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"A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes."

"A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes."

Burt Lancaster, American Actor

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"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."

"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

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"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased."

"Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased."

John James Audubon, American Scientist

Mother, Father, Duty

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"Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice."

"Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice."

Clay Aiken, American Musician

Mother, Brother, Help

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"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

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"My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!"

"My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!"

Etta James, American Musician

Mother, Jazz, Play

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"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest.""

"As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest.""

Bill Cosby, American Comedian

Mother, Brother, Past

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"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."

"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."

Lauryn Hill, American Musician

Mother, Son, Living, Reality

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"You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul."

"You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul."

Mariska Hargitay, American Actress

33

"I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before."

"I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before."

Kenny Loggins, American Musician

33

"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."

"My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of."

Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian Actor

33

"My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that."

"My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that."

Alan Alda, American Actor

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"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

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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."

Oprah Winfrey, American Entertainer

33

"My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company."

"My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company."

Eva Herzigova, Czechoslovakian Model

Mother, Father, Company

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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."

"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."

Dom DeLuise, American Actor

Mother, Children

33

"I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her."

"I wasn't actually trained by my mother, she said she never taught me but she was a great singer herself and I can't remember when I didn't listen to her sing and imitate her."

Joan Sutherland, Australian Musician

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"I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip."

"I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip."

Zoe Saldana, American Actor

Mother, Beer, Gossip, Sisters

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"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

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"I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy."

"I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy."

Tab Hunter, American Actor

33

"My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship."

"My father was a sea captain, so was his father, and his father before him, and all my uncles. My mother's people all followed the sea. I suppose that if I had been born a few years earlier, I would have had my own ship."

Joseph C. Lincoln, American Author

Mother, Father, People, Sea

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"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions."

"That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions."

Chow Yun Fat, Chinese Actor

Mother, Language

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"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

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"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

Jerry Stiller, American Comedian

Mother, Father, Fighting

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