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“My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.”

Young Teaching Football Like You Normal Training Baseball Teenager Idols Mum Boston Aunt Playing Baseball

Author:Donnie Yen

“My mum loved Joan Armatrading and used to play her records all the time and even took me to see her a couple of times when I was really quite young. I didn't really like her music back then because my mum was always playing it, but I've grown to appreciate it more.”

Play Young Used Records Couple Appreciate Mum Like Her

Author:Katy B

“My mum loves cats so I took her to see the lion cubs which at about a year old are actually quite big. She wasn't scared at all and went straight over and kissed one on the mouth! She thought they were just like her pets at home.”

Years Home Bigs Mouths Cat Scared Pet Lions Mum Like Her Cubs

Author:Amanda Holden

“My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.”

Made Language Decision Teach Conscious Indian Mum Accents

Author:Naveen Andrews

“My mum Margaret was a single parent, but though life was a bit of a struggle she gave me every encouragement.”

Bits Parent Struggle Encouragement Mum Single Parent

Author:Ashley Jensen

“My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.”

Independent Mary Mum

Author:Kevin Whately

“My mum never understood how much I earned. When I told her I earned a million pounds a film, she said, 'How much is that?'”

Said Film Millions Understood Pounds Mum

Author:Michael Caine

“My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.”

Looks Enough Moments Strong Situation Happened Passing Passings Funeral Mum Looking Back Strong Enough Passing Away Funny Moments

Author:Kevin Hart

“My mum put me in drama classes when I was about 14. I'd been going on about it for some time, so maybe it was a way to shut me up.”

Way Class Drama Mum Drama Class

Author:Naomi Watts

“My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.”

Raised Musical Theatre Classic Mum Musical Theatre Classic Movie

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“My mum reads every script before I go for it.”

Scripts Mum

Author:Chloe Grace Moretz

“My mum said she remembers me asking her if she'd take me to ballet lessons when I was about two and a half. She said I could barely speak, and yet was asking for ballet lessons.”

Ifs Said Two Remember Speak Half Lessons Asking Take Me Ballet Mum Remember Me

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“My mum said that as you age you have to smell good and be clean and don't hate anybody because that makes you older. Um I don't agree. I think that of course you have to smell good and be clean but there's much more that you have to do. Don't complain, exercise, be be strong, um work, be creative, be related to the world, have causes, fight for them passionately. I think all those things are important. I I'm not going to give up and just smell good.”

Thinking World Giving Said Important Age Hate Fighting Courses Strong Causes Creative Exercise Giving Up Agree Clean Smell Complaining Related Mum Be Creative Don't Hate

Author:Isabel Allende

“My mum said that, when the world’s tearing itself apart, love is the only thing that can fix everything… That if we just loved each other a little more, all the darkness would go away”

People Love Light Death Kindness Darkness Human The World The Sacrifice Box

Author:Martin Stewart

“My mum said to me and my brother, 'Don't crumble your bread or roll in the soup'. I said, 'I don't want to roll in my soup'. Then she said, 'Eat up, Michael'. and my brother said, 'I don't want to eat up Michael'.”

Humor Humour

Author:Michael Rosen

Source: The Hypnotiser

“My mum said to me once years ago, which really spurred me on, 'You're the funniest person I know'. I loved that.”

Knows Years Persons Said Years Ago Mum

Author:Miranda Hart

“My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.”

Thinking Wanted Remember Player Happenings Guitar Mum Surgeons Guitar Player

Author:Brian May

“My mum says that I was born 45, and I do remember at six thinking that I should be earning my own living.”

Thinking Should Remember Born My Own Six Mum Earning

Author:Keira Knightley

“My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!”

Firsts Instinct Impulse Buying Mum

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.”

Stills Real Jobs Wonder Dinner Our Family Mum Real Jobs Family Dinner

Author:Aron Flam

“My mum taught me always to see the funny side of things.”

Sides Taught Mum

Author:Michelle Dockery

“My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long as you don't hurt anyone and you're happy. My Mum's great; I adore her.”

Long Hurt Taught Manners Great Men Mum Adore

Author:Colin Farrell

“My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.”

Helping Able Darkness Ignorance Taught Stupidity Mum Lightness

Author:Michael Moore

“My mum taught me that redheads shouldn't wear pink, red or orange, but if you choose the right shade, such as a bright orange or a cherry red, it can look fabulous.”

Ifs Looks Taught Red Shade You Choose Mum Fabulous Orange Cherries

Author:Jane Asher

“My mum taught me to have a soul.”

Soul Taught Mum

Author:Stella McCartney

“My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed.”

Children Reason Feelings Turns Taught Mum Feeling Depressed

Author:Jo Brand

“My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.”

Ifs Knows Way Trying Children Film Community Acting Tvs Essentials Doctors Our Children Addiction Lawyer Accepted Practicals Your Children Immigrants Laziness Mum Comprehension

Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar

“My mum told me always to wear heels. If I'm not wearing heels, she says, 'What? You're in flats?' So whenever I see her, I make sure I have heels with me.”

Ifs Flats Heels Mum

Author:Julia Restoin Roitfeld

“My mum told me that I have a gift, but it doesn't make me better than others”

Mum

Author:Connie Talbot

“My mum told me the best time to ask my dad for anything was during sex. Not the best advice I'd ever been given. I burst in through the bedroom door saying "Can I have a new bike?". He was very upset. His secretary was surprisingly nice about it. I got the bike.”

Humor Funny Asks Given Sex Nice Doors Advice Dad My Dad Upset Mum Secretary Bedroom Bike Best Times Best Advice

Author:Jimmy Carr

“My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.”

Way Want Inspiration Patience Realising Mum Having Patience

Author:Vanessa Paradis

“My mum translated this in her head to "witchfinder," which was good because like most West Africans, she considered witchfinding a more respectable profession than policeman.”

Mothers Witches West African

Author:Ben Aaronovitch

Source: Whispers Under Ground

“My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I'd be like, 'Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!”

Used Dresses My Sister Mum Matching Laura Ashley

Author:Agyness Deyn

“My mum used to call me Tigger,’ she said. ‘She used to say, you’re like Tigger, you are, no matter how hard you fall, you always bounce back.”

Winnie The Pooh Tigger Resiliance

Author:Ruth Ware

Source: The Woman in Cabin 10

“My mum used to say the three most important letters in my name were the EDN because if you rearrange them it spells END... and I was the end of everything good in her life”

Family Childhood Young Adult New Adult Alcoholic Bad Upbringing

Author:Sarah Clay

Source: Never Enough

“My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old.' Keep going even if you have setbacks.”

Ifs Used Persistence Keep Going Mum Spit Setback

Author:Lesley Garrett

“My mum used to say to me, 'you can't have fun all the time,' and I used to say, 'why not?'. Why... can't I have fun all the time?”

Used Fun Having Fun Why Not Mum

Author:Kate Moss

“My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".”

Used Memories New York Video Dawn Bliss Shops Mum Outfits Adrift

Author:King Krule

“My mum wants the best for me. And I like having my mum around me.”

Want Mum

Author:Dionne Bromfield

“My mum was a dinner lady and a cleaner while dad worked night shifts as a hydraulic engineer. They did not have a lot of spare cash and only ever bought what they could afford. We never had a car and cycled everywhere. We never went to restaurants. I did not know what Chinese food tasted like until I was 15.”

Knows Night Car Dad Dinner Chinese Restaurants Cash Engineers Mum Spares Cleaners Chinese Food Night Shift

Author:Kate Thornton

“My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.”

Made Wanted Watches Tvs Drug Clubs Touched Rebel Mum Strict

Author:Kelly Brook

“My mum was never too keen on TV, so we kids all went to the library and got books out. Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd go out and do something low-level naughty, just like him.”

Book Kids Levels Tvs Lows Mark Library Toms Mum Naughty Low Level Sawyer

Author:John Grisham

“My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.”

Persons Made Four Busy Glad Curious Thoughtful Mum Upbringing Too Busy

Author:Ellie Goulding

“My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.”

Christian Stars Mum Secretary Movie Star Dior

Author:Patsy Kensit

“My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.”

Children Nice Toys Mum Lipstick Demonstrating Housekeeping Some Nice Good Housekeeping

Author:Tracey Ullman

“My mum's advice is never to whine to my friends, so they never see the other side of me. I save all my problems for my mother.”

Problem Mother Sides Advice My Friends Mum

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“My mum's always on at me to have children and blames 'that stupid stage thing you do' for me not already having a family.”

Children Stage Stupid Blame Mum

Author:Paloma Faith

“My mum's American. She's from Detroit.”

Mum Detroit

Author:Rebecca Hall

“My mum's an opera singer: I grew up watching her get swept up in music and transform herself into characters. She taught me that music is a lifelong journey, and that with every day and every song and every gig you learn something new.”

Art Character Song Journey Taught Grew Grew Up Music Is Singers Something New Opera Mum Gigs Lifelong Long Journey Opera Singers Lifelong Journey

Author:Katie Noonan

“My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.”

Play Together Song Normal Guitar Folks Mum Bass Get Together Folk Songs Harmonicas

Author:Dan Auerbach

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