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Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer residents the opportunity - and responsibility - to structure their own space to reflect what's important to them.
Virginia Postrel / Writer
Accommodate
Antithesis
Family Life
Open Spaces
Residents
Structure
Loft
Reflect
Spaces
Suburban
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I tend not to meet the people I write about because I'm not really interested in the people I write about as people. I don't want to know about their family life. I don't want to know about their bad habits or their good deeds. I'm interested in their work.
Greil Marcus / Author
Bad Habits
Deeds
Family Life
Good Deeds
Life Family Work
Interested
Habits
Meet
Tend
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
Carlene Carter /
Aunt
Daddy
Family Life
Grandma
Mama
Related
Well Known
Uncle
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It's difficult to find a genuine weakness that makes you appear competent. For instance, telling your interviewer that your weakness is working so hard that you have trouble prioritizing your family life is a little too cliche and comes across as disingenuous.
Travis Bradberry /
Competent
Disingenuous
Family Life
Genuine
Instance
Weakness
Life Family Your
Appear
Interviewer
Life Family Difficult
Life Is A
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I still think it's essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV.
Mary Berry /
Educational
Family Life
Ingredients
Parent
Weighing
Meal
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
Candace Cameron Bure /
Big Movie
Entertainment
Entertainment Business
Family Life
Focused
Mom And Dad
Life Family Business
Life Family Mom
End-All
Paycheck
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In Pope Francis's 'Amoris Laetitia' (The Joy of Love), an apostolic exhortation on Catholic family life, he does not make earth-shattering doctrinal changes with regards to divorced Catholics, same-sex married Catholics, or the church's stance on homosexuality.
Anthea Butler /
Apostolic
Catholic
Divorced
Family Life
Pope
Stance
Life Love Family
Francis
Regards
Same-Sex
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Enough is enough. Six years you serve the countries. You been working hard. You sacrifice your time even your life. And, even your family life. So it's, it's time for me to go back as a private citizen. And contribute to the Thai society outside political arena.
Thaksin Shinawatra / Former Prime Minister Of Thailand
Arena
Enough Is Enough
Family Life
Sacrifice
Thai
Life Time Family
Citizen
Contribute
Life Family Time
Political Arena
Private Citizen
Working Hard
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I don't have the best family life. I'm not going to have a sob story and be like, my parents abandoned me, because they didn't. But they also are not that present. When I'm alone, I'm alone. I don't have anybody to call, and so I have to create meaning from myself.
Constance Wu /
Abandoned
Family Life
Life Alone Best
Anybody
Meaning
Present
Sob
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There is also work to do in the evolution of a stable family life and values, and in ensuring that the Nigerian family is built on core values that will form the bedrock of the future society. We must showcase the ideals of family life and be models of family values.
Ibrahim Babangida /
Bedrock
Core
Core Values
Evolution
Family Life
Form
Ideals
Models
Showcase
Stable
Life Family Work
Life Future Family
Ensuring
Nigerian
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You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.
Tim Mcgraw / Singer
Family Life
People
Privacy
Thinking
Trying
Life Family People
Assume
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On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
Madonna Ciccone / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Conflict
Family Life
Hands
Mean
Past
Traditional
Traditional Family
Upbringing
Life Family Marriage
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A national standard for recognizing the occupational licenses of military spouses across state lines would have many potential benefits. It would help improve military family life, add to the economy, and, importantly, allow a military spouse to fulfill their career goals.
Cindy Hyde-Smith /
Family Life
Recognizing
Spouse
Fulfill
Importantly
Occupational
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Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.
Miranda Hart / Actor
Easier
Family Life
Horrible
Mediocrity
My Own
Single
Life Family Work
Weird
Apart
Chair
Distract
End Of The Day
Walk
Responsibilities
Sit
Taking
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Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual.
Cindy Crawford / Model
Fitness
Family Life
Organized
Punctual
Life Family Work
Priority
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I cannot step into any day without help. I have a fantastically engaged husband who is very present for his children and our family life. We've got a brilliant nanny, other help from parents-in-law, godparents, friends. Also, I've had incredible women around me in the business.
Tamsin Greig / Actress
Brilliant
Engaged
Family Life
Life Family Business
Nanny
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I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.
Segolene Royal / Minister Of Ecology, Sustainable Development And Energy
Appointments
Doctors
Family Life
Filling
Meetings
Urgency
Life Time Family
Life Family Work
Life Work Family
Fridge
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I do know I will enjoy family life. What I've seen from moms, or heard stories from people who became a parent, it's such a consuming thing; it's such a wonderful thing. I consider it an extreme luxury to have that time and to not have to do anything else, and just be with my kid.
Floor Jansen /
Consuming
Family Life
Luxury
Life Time Family
Extreme
Life Family Time
Just Be
Moms
Wonderful Thing
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Well, I think one of the big things wrong with kids these days, a lot of them don't have a family. A lot of them got one parent and there's quite a few that don't have any parents and that's where the whole problem is. There's no family life, no father to slap 'em around when they need it.
Rudy Boesch /
Big Things
Family Life
Slap
Life Family Father
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In my own spiritual journey, I became a swami on the Hindu path of Bhakti. In the Hindu tradition, a swami is a monk who forgoes regular family life for the purpose of making the whole world his family and channels his full energy into spiritual practice, devotion to God and service to humanity.
Radhanath Swami / Author
Journey
Devotion
Family Life
Humanity
Monk
Practice
Spiritual
Spiritual Practice
Tradition
Life God Family
Hindu
Channels
Regular
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I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.
Jodi Picoult / Author
Able
Crisis
Drama
Family Life
Lurking
Writing
Life Family Me
Demons
Dramas
Fictional
Leaves
Psyche
Rid
Stepping
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
Daisaku Ikeda / President
Family
Women
Children
Cutting
Empathy
Engagement
Family Life
Focus
Human Relationships
Natural
Raising Children
Reality
Life Family Work
Life Work Women
Women Are
Through
Cuts
Deep
Demanding
Develop
Human
Life Work Family
Givers
Protecting
Raising
Realities
Relationships
Sense
View
Underlying
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Gail Collins / Journalist
Family
History
American History
Family Life
Ideas
Impact
Jackie
Made
President
Two
Life History People
Life Family People
Life Family History
Since
American
Idea
Central
Could
Identified
Ladies
One Or Two
Recognized
Roosevelt
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I know in my own marriage I stayed in it to provide my son with what I thought was a stable background and to give him what I thought was the family life a child should have with two parents. But that isn't always the best way, and it took me taking my son to therapy after the divorce to really see it.
Regina King / Film Actress
Best Way
Divorce
Family Life
Son
Stable
Therapy
Life Best Family
Background
Provide
Stayed
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Before I became an orphan of the Holocaust my early family life was stable. I grew up as a German Jew in Frankfurt, and I was in a household with two loving parents and an adoring grandmother who spoiled me. My mother helped my father in their wholesale business and they went to synagogue every Friday.
Ruth Westheimer / Author
Family Life
Friday
Holocaust
Loving Parents
Orphan
Spoiled
Stable
Synagogue
Wholesale
Life Family Business
Adoring
German
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Honestly, I was so happy for Bruce because I loved Bruce... and Bruce felt like my brother. You know, I wanted him to be OK, and I was just thrilled he'd found someone who had four children and someone who understood what it was like to be a parent - you know, just to have that great family life again.
Linda Thompson /
Family Life
Great Family
Parent
Life Family Great
Bruce
Thrilled
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The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.
Jools Holland / Bandleader
Amazed
Delighted
Family Life
Working Class
Life Family Parents
Life Family Way
Apart
Associated
Classes
Disappeared
Sang
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I never really felt free to talk a lot about my family life because I don't want to sacrifice anybody else's privacy. If you look through the archives, you will see, for example, no pictures of my children. That is not because I don't love them. I think I've been a really good dad; at least, I try to be.
Scott Turow / Author
Archives
Family Life
Privacy
Sacrifice
Life Love Family
For Example
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Barack Obama was elected during my second year of college, and save for his skin color, he had much in common with Bill Clinton: Despite an unstable life with a single mother, aided by two loving grandparents, he had made in his adulthood a family life that seemed to embody my sense of the American ideal.
J. D. Vance /
Adulthood
Barack
Clinton
College
Common
Despite
Family Life
Single
Single Mother
Skin Color
Unstable
Life Family Mother
Obama
Aided
Skin
Barack Obama
Bill
Bill Clinton
Elected
Embody
Ideal
Save
Second
Seemed
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Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used it. I've used what happened - the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they're all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.
Loudon Wainwright Iii / Singer-Songwriter
Add
Connecting
Family Life
Guilt
Regret
Life Love Family
Hasten
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The worst thing a man can admit is 'I'm not 100 percent fulfilled by my family.' But it doesn't mean he doesn't love his family. I love my family, but I still want to work; I still want challenges. It took me a while to fall in love with the responsibility of family life, and it was a deep thing when I did.
David Duchovny / Actor
Family Life
Fulfilled
Life Love Family
Admit
Worst Thing
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From my own point of view, I went to college in the States. I am very comfortable on the PGA Tour. I have made my family life over there. It would be a big upheaval for me to play full time in Europe, which is why I have decided that I am going to play mostly in the U.S. but still support Europe when it is possible.
Luke Donald / Golfer
College
Comfortable
Decided
Europe
Family Life
Point Of View
Support
Upheaval
Life Time Family
Life Family Time
Mostly
Pga Tour
View
Tour
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My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.
Maeve Binchy / Novelist
Sister
Brother
Childhood
Dublin
Family Life
Happy Childhood
Meant To Be
Miles
Prairie
Safe
Secure
Stories
Meant
Disadvantage
Dramas
William
Joan
Little Town
Outside
Reads
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The art of living demands that our interest in bringing forth flowers in our family life equal the interest we take in bringing them forth in our window gardens. So long as their home-life aesthetics have not become ethics, women need not expect husbands, children, or servants to feel happy in the homes of their creation.
Ellen Key / Writer
Aesthetic
Creation
Equal
Ethics
Family Life
Interest
Window
Life Art Family
Bringing
Flowers
Demands
Expect
Life Family Art
Forth
Gardens
Homes
Husbands
Servants
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Feminism insists on women's right to make choices - about whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to combine work and family or to focus on one over the other. It also urges men and women to share the joys and burdens of family life and calls on society to place a higher priority on supporting caregiving work.
Stephanie Coontz / Author
Choices
Family Life
Feminism
Higher
Men And Women
Share
Urges
Life Family Work
Burdens
Calls
Combine
Life Work Family
Marry
Insists
Joys
Supporting
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Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.
George W. S. Trow / Essayist
Belief
Family Life
Confirmed
Divorces
Literary
Literary Men
Readers
Reviewing
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It's one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.
Jeffrey Kluger / Writer
Daughter
Kids
Family Life
Mother
Quiet
Sibling
Life Family Good
Acknowledging
Favored
Good Thing
Preferred
Preserve
Recognize
Secrets
Status
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The Huxtables laughed and bonded and debated and lip-synced. They were glamorous and simple and extraordinarily human. And affluent. And educated. And so many different kinds of black. You'd think that all of that would make them the Howard University of African-American family life. But white people wanted to matriculate, too.
Wesley Morris / Journalist
Affluent
African American
Different Kinds
Family Life
Glamorous
Laughed
Life Family Simple
Bonded
Debated
Extraordinarily
Life Family Black
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It really depends, but, generally speaking, just because of the mechanics of it, voice-over is easier because there is no hair, no makeup, no wardrobe, no fittings, no line memorizing. You don't have to me woken up in Russia at 6 in the morning and go film a scene. It's just easier on the body, the family life to do voice-overs.
Kathy Najimy / Actress
Depends
Easier
Family Life
Makeup
Memorizing
Russia
Scene
Voice Over
Wardrobe
Life Family Morning
Generally
Just Because
Mechanics
Speaking
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
Harlan Coben / Author
Book
Conspiracy
Family Life
People
Pool
Prime Minister
Reaching
Setting
Suburbia
Writing
Life Family People
Heads
Minister
Normal People
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I did not have a happy family life a few years ago. I was divorced, and I was very alienated from my daughter, and I was out there cutting every ribbon and running around New York hosting events for different causes to supplant my loss because I didn't have a family to go home to. Now I don't want to be Mr. Show Business anymore.
Alec Baldwin / Actor
Daughter
Running
Causes
Cutting
Divorced
Events
Family Life
Loss
Show Business
Years Ago
Life Family Business
Alienated
Anymore
Mr
Go Home
Hosting
Ribbon
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The effects of unresolved trauma can be devastating. It can affect our habits and outlook on life, leading to addictions and poor decision-making. It can take a toll on our family life and interpersonal relationships. It can trigger real physical pain, symptoms, and disease. And it can lead to a range of self-destructive behaviors.
Peter A. Levine / Author
Family
Decision Making
Disease
Effects
Family Life
Interpersonal
Outlook
Pain
Physical Pain
Poor
Range
Real
Self Destructive
Symptoms
Trauma
Addictions
Affect
Behaviors
Take
Devastating
Lead
Habits
Physical
Relationships
Toll
Unresolved
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Society is notoriously stupid in its failure to harness the wisdom of older women in everything from television to politics, family life to boardrooms, and here is one reminiscing with honesty and realism about women's particular challenge: to create our professional and financial structures in the same period as our peak fertility.
Victoria Coren Mitchell / Writer
Family Life
Fertility
Harness
Honesty
Older Women
Realism
Peak
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When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.
Joyce Carol Oates / Author
Detachment
Family Life
Giving
Lying
Motive
Pain
Relief
Secrecy
Life Happiness Family
Life Happiness Time
Individuals
Lies
Old Enough
Passed
Secrets
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