Readers tell me that my novels are filled with significant mothers. Do I realize this? Do I do it on purpose? The truth is, I don't. I think of myself as a writer of family stories. I write more often than not from a male point of view, and I usually...
I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
I'm so lucky to have such a great family. I respect them so much professionally, and they've been unconditionally supportive in the choices that I've made. It's been very good having them on my side.
Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.
There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really for...
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?
I'm always feeling like I don't belong, no matter where I am. So I'm just searching for a family nonstop, and sometimes I find it in the mosh pit, sometimes I find it when I'm doing some French TV show with the president's wife.
When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.
He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.
My family has been in politics a long time in Los Angeles. We very much believe we are elected to represent the people. I mean, I am to give voice to, you know, the over half a million people I represent in my congressional district. I mean, that's t...
No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'
Family makes a house a home.
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
Tammy Faye, I pray for every day. I really liked her. I wanted to be in their family.
I'm the only one in my family - I'm a practicing Jew - who has attached themselves to religion in a more traditional way.
People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.
I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
So when I made some money, I didn't have any idea how one handled such a situation because no one in our family ever had any money.
