"A lot of people say that Eleanor Roosevelt wasn't a good mother. And there are two pieces to that story. One is, when they were very young, she was not a good mother. She was an unhappy mother. She was an unhappy wife. She had never known what it was to be a good mother. She didn't have a good mother of her own. And so there's a kind of parenting that doesn't happen."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Blanche Wiesen Cook

#Mother Quotes #Two Quotes #People Quotes

“It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'ma just do what I do.”

Source : "DMX. Here I Am". XXL interview, www.cnet.com. March 14, 2008.
“A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.”
“Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.”
“The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's] probably the most intimately shot film that's in any of these categories. If you're not familiar with Son of Saul, basically it's a film about a Jewish guy who's in concentration camp, but he helps dispose of the bodies after they leave the gas chamber. So, you watch the entire movie looking at Saul's face and looking at his interactions with people.”
“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.”
“When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.”
“I really would love to do a piece like Julia Roberts or Charlize Theron in 'Erin Brockovich' or 'North Country.' They were both so amazing and so inspiring. I would love to touch someone in the way their performances touched me.”
“When I was a kid, I didn't collect stamps, or weird toys, or anything. I don't even have music - I don't even have a CD collection. So that's not really my thing.”

Source : "Victor Garber on his love for Judy Collins and his bar mitzvah encore". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 3, 2015.

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