#mum

Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. ↗

— Tony Scott

#mum

I think people need to commit to one another before they commit to bringing children into the world because that's the optimum arrangement for children, not to take anything at all away from women who have to rear their children by themselves. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#anything #arrangement #away #because #before

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. ↗

— Chloe Sevigny

#friends #i #me #mother #mum

I'm a hands-on mum and I'm lucky to be able to be that. I can remember the things my mum used to do with me and that time together is so important. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#hands-on #i #i can #important #lucky

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs. ↗

— James Sinegal

#could #jobs #made #make #maximum

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#few #fiction #hours #i #into

The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. ↗

— George Steiner

#event #every #honing #impact #individual

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#air #day #devours #done #get

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#been #books #chased #ghost #i

To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#being #bought #carry #chances #enjoying