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“My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist.”

“My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.”

People Wanted Mother My Family University Professors

“My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.”

Wanted Mother Vision Teacher College Walking Academic Oxford Gowns

Author:Simon Callow

“My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.”

Children Wanted Mother Suitable

Author:Brigitte Bardot

“My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.”

Giving Facts Wanted Mother Birth Daughter Wings Never Quit Mothering Mother Daughter Mother And Daughter Mom And Daughter Wings To Fly Mother And Daughter Relationship

Author:Erica Jong

Source: how to save your own life

“My mother wanted me to go to church to meet women. That's wrong, ain't it? 'Praise the Lord! Hey, how ya doing? Nice dress. Look, I'm going to go over there and get some of this wine and crackers, want some?'”

Want Looks Wanted Mother Church Lord Nice Praise Dresses Wine Hey Crackers Praise The Lord

Author:Warren Hutcherson

“My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all.”

“My mother wanted me to take piano lessons, but I never wanted to, because that is something you have to learn, like you have to learn to type, and to me, that has nothing to do with music.”

Wanted Mother Music Like You Type Lessons Piano Piano Lesson

Author:Ryo Kawasaki

“My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.”

Use Wanted Mother Sex Sexuality

Author:Suzanne Vega

“My mother wanted to be a teacher when she was young, and my father didn't approve of it, so she fought very hard to become one. And she did it. So when I said I wanted to become an actress, my mother was very supportive. She always said to me, 'There's no such thing as 'can't.”

Said Hard Wanted Young Mother Father Teacher Actresses Supportive

Author:Archie Panjabi

“My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way. She's proud of me for doing what I wanted to do, but at the same time, I'm kind of taking up where she left off.”

Way Feels Kind Dream Wanted Mother Left Chance Proud Following Actresses Proud Of Me

Author:Mike Colter

“My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.”

Firsts Children States Wanted Mother President Born United United States Eight

Author:Carol Ross Barney

“My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my dad and my brother insisted on naming me. And they were big fans of 'The Little Mermaid.'”

Littles Bigs Wanted Mother Names Fans Brother Dad My Dad My Brother My Sister Mermaid Jackie

Author:Ariel Winter

“My mother wanted to shrink from my clinging, but did not.”

Wanted Mother Shrinks Clinging

Author:Mason Cooley

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.”

Stories Wanted Mother Next Mom One Day Tragedy Comic Happy Mothers Day

Author:Nora Ephron

“My mother warned me to avoid things colored red.”

Mother Red

Author:Claes Oldenburg

Source: Claes Oldenburg: object into monument

“My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.”

Age School Mother Parent High School My Friends Grandparent

Author:Jack White

“My mother was a Bible student, and when I was a youngster, both my mother and father would say, 'If people would only live by the Golden Rule, there wouldn't be the problems that there are.' In other words, 'treat people the way you want to be treated.' If somebody mistreats you, two wrongs won't make a right.”

People Ifs Way Want Two Problem Mother Father Students Treats Treated Golden Live By Golden Rule Youngsters Mother And Father Mistreat

Author:Monte Irvin

“My mother was a Bohemian - in the good sense of the word. A searcher. And she investigated various religions.”

Mother Various Good Sense Bohemian Searchers

Author:Madeline Kahn

“My mother was a champion high-jumper. My three brothers are basketball players. We've all been very athletic.”

Mother Three Player Brother Basketball Champion Athletic Basketball Player Jumpers Three Brothers

Author:Grace Jones

“My mother was a champion Irish dancer and singer and most of my family were musical, particularly in Irish dancing. Music is all about spewing out your emotions. A mixture of a good tune and a good beat and everyone playing their guts out and something that grabs people's attention.”

Mother Emotion Attention Music Is My Family Dancing Musical Champion Dancer Guts

Author:Shane MacGowan

“My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.”

Kind Children Facts Stories Remember Mother Audience Modern Originals Traditional Indian Bores Remember When Acquaintance Librarian Nodding

Author:Patricia Briggs

“My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence; He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis.”

War Mother Artist Father Mets Chinese Paris Bombs Axes Smuggling Provence Trapeze Cadets Trapeze Artists

Author:Colin Meloy

“My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.”

Mother

Author:Lindsey Haun

“My mother was a churchgoing lady, so I always heard about God at home”

Home Mother Heard

Author:Smokey Robinson

“My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.”

Mother Passionate Contemporary Composing Pianist Stepfathers Contemporary Music

Author:Carla Bruni

“My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.”

Mother Cleaning

Author:Raf Simons

“My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success. I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.”

“My mother was a cracker jack typist. And she would come in and sit at my house and type the final type script before I would then send it to the publisher. And it was nice for us.”

Mother House Nice Type Finals Scripts Publishers Crackers

Author:Judy Blume

“My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.”

Use Body Mother Acting Instruments Dancer

Author:Nicolas Cage

“My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.”

Mother Democrat Southern

Author:Nancy Reagan

“My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was supposed to be and I was determined not to be.”

Earth Mother Perfect Wife Figures Sweet Determined Supposed To Be Goddess Mother Earth Placid Perfect Wife

Author:Joan Collins

“My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment, which is a good thing for someone who still thinks of themselves as a very basic American.”

Knows Should Ideas Mother Force Simple Education Judgment Dominant Exclusivity

Author:Twyla Tharp

“My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.”

Men Young Mother Force Saws Our Family Young Women Dominant

Author:Dolores Huerta

“My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.”

Mother

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“My mother was a feminist and a divorcee who worked. She was very smart.”

Mother Smart Feminist Very Smart

Author:Alley Mills

“My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, "patriarchy," on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.”

People Years Stills Self Mother Three Talking Conversation Empowerment Tools Everyday Feminist Possession Forty Three Years Patriarchy Self Empowerment Unsuspecting

Author:Ani DiFranco

“My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.”

Firsts Mother Reading Teacher Intellectual And Love Curiosity Credit Grades Lifelong Love Of Reading Intellectual Curiosity Lifelong Love Reading And Learning

Author:Chesley Sullenberger

“My mother was a force. She had little tolerance for fools, she kept her hair short and wore practical non-fussy clothes. Everything about her radiated confidence and calm.”

Character Family Motherhood Mothers Mothers And Daughters

Author:Michelle Obama

Source: Becoming

“My mother was a good Catholic -- she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic.”

Religion

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

“My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.”

Care Able Mother Cost Recovery Servant Sickness Mistress

Author:Margaret Cavendish

“My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.”

Ifs Hard Mother Food Cooking Cooks Culinary Home Cooking

Author:Nora Ephron

“My mother was a great advocate of womens rights, a member of the League of Womens Voters and lifelong member of Planned Parenthood and an advocate of a womans rights in terms of reproductive issues. She was also a founding member of Common Cause in the state of Indiana.”

States Mother Causes Term Common Issues Rights Members League Voters Parenthood Womens Rights Founding Lifelong Indiana Planned Parenthood

Author:Kathryn Lasky

“My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.”

Children Mother Memories Security Comfort

Author:Graham Swift

“My mother was a great woman. To look at her from the suffering she had gone through to bring us up - 20 children: 6 girls and 14 boys, but still she taught us to be decent and to respect ourselves, and that is one of the things that has kept me going, even after she passed.”

Looks Children Stills Mother Suffering Girl Boys Gone Taught Decent Taught Us Great Women

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“My mother was a gypsy, and she had a lot of dark blood in her, and her hair was very, very thick - she couldn't even get a brush through it. So I have been very fortunate. And every time I go to cut it off, hairdressers refuse to do it.”

Has Beens Mother Dark Cutting Blood Hair Refuse Fortunate Thick Brushes Gypsy Hairdresser

Author:Robert Plant

“My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts”

Art School Mother Teacher High School Art Teacher

Author:John Lasseter

“My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.”

Mother Artist Father Engineers Housewife Electrical

Author:James Cameron

Source: James Cameron: Interviews

“My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class.”

Wells Mother Father Class England Working Class Farming Housewife

Author:David Bowie

“My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.”

Mother Father Workers Garments Housewife

Author:Alan Sugar

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