As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.
Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today.
The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort.
The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!
It destroys you when people say complete mistruths about your family.
I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.
I'm from a big family; I have four younger siblings. My parents are still happily married together. I grew up moving around a lot, and my family was certainly not affluent.
My family traveled a lot. For a while we even lived in a trailer and traveled from campground to campground. If we got to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, it was the highlight of our whole year! But I don't miss having to share a bathroom with seven pe...
When I look back at the pictures of our blended family the day Vince and I married, he and I are smiling, and all the children are frowning.
As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.
I am a traditional man. I'm a product of a traditional man. He sacrificed everything for his family.
It's impossible for everybody to be in sync, even the most proper family.
What scares me? I kind of believe in ghosts. I believe they can wander around, so that scares me. But the stuff that really scares me are the catastrophic events like my husband or children or my family being harmed, or something like that.
I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.
You get a letter from her agency embracing you into the family that says, 'It is our goal now to help you achieve your dream of being a songwriter, in John's memory.'
Is it philosophical, is it quite allowable, to assume without evidence from fossil plants that the family or any of the genera was once larger and wide spread? and occupied a continuous area?
In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.
In 1979, when I was toddler, the Russians invaded Afghanistan, and my whole family fled to Vienna, Virginia. Far from home, my parents were determined to raise my two sisters and me according to Afghan traditions.
You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
If something was to happen to part of my family, I don't know what I'd do.
