"I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid."

-- Mike Shinoda

#Mom Quotes #Kids Quotes #Artist Quotes

“Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference.”
“throughout all ranks of society, from the successful merchant, which is the highest, to the domestic serving man, which is the lowest, they are all too actively employed to read, except at such broken moments as may suffice for a peep at a newspaper. It is for this reason, I presume, that every American newspaper is more or less a magazine ...”

Source : Frances Trollope (2014). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.63, Oxford University Press
“As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.”
“Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy because they thought I looked Jewish.”
“A huge part of youth is how you behave: I'm always looking for fun and anything that makes me feel alive - that in itself keeps me feeling young.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.”
“As people get older, we all know, you get married and you have a child and that becomes your family, but when you're 16 years old, especially, your family is your friends.”
“The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.”

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