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“It's interesting to me that I get cast as mothers and really maternal, sweet, nice people... Maybe I have a vulnerability or something; maybe that's what it is.”

People Mother Interesting Nice Sweet Casts Vulnerability Nice People

Author:Elizabeth Reaser

“You can't help but feel a little bit like a mother to the younger cast members.”

Feels Littles Helping Mother Bits Members Little Bit Casts Like A Mother Cast Members

Author:Julie Walters

“My mother was convinced, and on this head I have retained her firm belief, that to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state; that it is one of those curses cast upon man either by his fall, or by the obduracy of his own perversity.”

Men Humans States Mother Purpose Fall Belief Animal Casts Convinced Flesh Firm Curse Feeding Vegetarianism Shameful Infirmity Perversity Firm Beliefs

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“Antiquity was often delighted to cast a halo of mythical glory around its illustrious names. The immortal works of this great philosopher seemed to entitle him to more than mortal honors. A legend into the authenticity of which we will abstain from inquiring, asserted that his mother, Perictione, a pure virgin, suffered an immaculate conception through the influence of Apollo. The god declared to Ariston, to whom she was about to be married, the parentage of the child.”

Source: History of the Intellectual Development of Europe

“Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamplight. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.”

World Bigs Would Be Eye Able Mother Wall Shadow Standing Casts Corners Frightened

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I was certainly typecast for a while on television because I was always being cast as the compassionate mother or whatever.”

Mother Television Casts Compassionate

Author:Michael Learned

“Let us then cast ourselves at the feet of this good Mother, and embracing them let us not depart until she blesses us, and accepts us for her children.”

Children Mother Religious Accepting Feet Casts Bless Virgin Mary Good Mother Blessed Mother

Author:Bernard of Clairvaux