“We are all equal children before our mother; and India asks each one of us, in whatsoever role we play in the complex drama of nation-building, to do our duty with integrity, commitment and unflinching loyalty to the values enshrined in our Constitution.” ChildrenPlayMotherValuesAsksNationsRolesBuildingDutyIntegrityDramaEqualCommitmentIndiaConstitutionComplexesLoyaltyNation Building Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case - which didn't exactly fill me with confidence.” IfsCountrySchoolMotherFallCasesStudyCollegeDramaLuckyDegreesDown AndUniversityFall BackBirmingham Author:Tamsin Greig
“I once worked with Emma Thompsons mother, Phyllida Law. I worked with her on a BBC drama, and she was hilarious. I loved her so much, and she was great to work with.” LawMotherDramaEmma Author:Thomas Brodie-Sangster
“As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.” ChildrenHappensMotherGrowing UpGrowingMinutesTelevisionDramaMountainBunchDancerVillageEstatesGreyHousingSwissSingle MotherBollywoodChildren Growing UpYorkshireGrowing ChildrenSari Author:Simon Beaufoy
“My father went to college for drama in Pittsburgh, and so did my mother, and then my mother was a steadily working New York theater actress. They kind of quit when I was born. They did that for, like, 10 years before they had kids and then I was born and they were not into that lifestyle for kids.” YearsKindKidsMotherFatherBornNew YorkCollegeDramaTheaterActressesQuittingLifestylePittsburgh Author:Ethan Suplee
“People ask me all the time what it's like to work with my mother. I feel completely blessed because, first of all, this has given us an opportunity to enrich our relationship in ways we never could have imagined. Our time together is purely creative. It's unfettered by politics or the news of the day or aches and pains or family dramas or anything else. This time together is sort of golden and protected as being just creative time, which is heavenly.” PeopleWayFeelsFirstsPainTogetherMotherAsksOpportunityGivenCreativeDramaNewsBlessedGoldenAsk MeOur TimeHeavenlyProtectedOur RelationshipAcheFamily DramaTime TogetherAches And PainsOur Time Together Author:Emma Walton Hamilton
“The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.” IfsLooksMadeRealCharacterStoriesHomeUsedMotherReligiousGrowing UpGrowingInfluenceBrotherDevelopmentPromiseDramaLove StoryPlotComing HomeRomantic LoveTwistsPacingReal CharacterWarner Brothers Author:Robert Cormier
“I just don't think that being unable to forgive someone is the most healing move. It can be, and I've had times in my life when I thought I would be better off without the drama that another person was bringing to me, but cutting someone out isn't always the answer. I know someone who cut her mother out and it didn't magically heal her. She's still haunted. It's not as if you can wipe clean all of your memories of having a mother, or wanting or needing one.” ThinkingMovingMotherMemoriesHealingCuttingDramaForgivingHealOur Memories Author:Nicole Georges
“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.” LongJoyMotherLiteratureHoursTerribleDramaTendernessSuccession Author:Honore de Balzac
“I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.” WantSchoolMotherHateDramaNormalConsequenceCrisisFingersMessEnjoyedWant SomethingIntriguedNormal Life Book:Running with Scissors: A Memoir Source: Running with Scissors: A Memoir
“McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.” FirstsSchoolJobsMotherTermRolesFrontsDramaDaughterCameras Author:Dustin Clare
“My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.” WayMotherFatherInfluenceDramaUniversityArchitectureWitWickedPennsylvaniaGreat InfluenceUniversity Of Pennsylvania Author:Donald Barthelme
“If the mother can't break the attachment, they say that the baby can't leave this world. For him to be happy in a good place you must send the child that you must send... and you must live.” IfsWorldChildrenMotherBreakThis WorldBabyDramaAttachmentGood Place Author:Park Gye-Ok