“For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.”
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“I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.”
“My mom always taught me to be sweet and polite and cross my legs because it's what the guys like. Actually, they like a raunchy girl once in a while.”
“If I go on dates, my mom is always with me. She's always there making sure I'm all right. Like if I go to see a movie with a boy, she'll go to dinner next door.”
“An agent saw one of the plays I did at ACT, but my mom was like, No, she's too young. I became so annoying that a year and a half later she just couldn't stand hearing me any more!”
“Cancer has been unfortunately in my life. My mom's best friend is kicking a-s in her battle with breast cancer. Both of my grandmas had cancer. I recently lost a friend to cancer.”
“I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.”
“My mom still lives in Denver and some of my brothers are still in the area, so I still have strong ties there.”
“When I'm in the gym, I'm in the gym, and that is my focus. But when I'm not in the gym, I'm enjoying being a mom and taking care of those responsibilities .. They really do provide me with the balance that I need to be a more complete athlete.”
“I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.”
“I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.”
“My first big job was an Abercrombie &Fitch campaign. But my mom wouldn't let me skip school for it, so I missed half of the shoot. When we got there, we realized Bruce Weber was the photographer we knew we had made a mistake!”
“My mom and my stepdad are both therapists.”
“My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.”
“My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 13 and it was something we weren't really aware of as a family.”
“My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.”
“Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.”
“My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.”
“You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.”
“When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.”
“I think there's a danger of a being typecast as the all-American mom forever.”
“My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.”
“Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.”
“Losing my mom at such a young age had a profound effect on my life.”