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  • Casey Affleck on mom

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    “My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don’t put me in danger.” -Casey Affleck

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  • Shaun Alexander on mom

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    “You know when everyone’s watching, your mom and dad, your friends in high school who thought they were better than you. You get your chance to get in the spotlight and shine.” -Shaun Alexander

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  • Lisa Guerrero on mom

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    “I’m proud of what I look like. I’m proud that I look like my mom.” -Lisa Guerrero

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  • Trisha Yearwood on mom

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    “I finished high school, moved to Nashville for college, and set out to break into the music business. Every night when I called home with news of my experiences, my mom and dad would encourage me to keep taking those small steps.” -Trisha Yearwood

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  • Chester Brown on mom

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    “I was looking to do something non-fiction because I had done a strip, ‘My Mom Was a Schizophrenic.’ I really enjoyed the process of doing that strip, despite its subject matter. To do it I’d had to do a lot of research and reading and I figured I’d like to do that again.” -Chester Brown

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  • Freddy Adu on mom

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    “I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom… lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.” -Freddy Adu

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  • Eva Longoria on mom

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    “I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren’t wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.” -Eva Longoria

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  • Slash on mom

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    “My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.” -Slash

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  • Ricky Skaggs on mom

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    “I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn’t sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.” -Ricky Skaggs

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  • Patsy Cline on mom

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    “If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.” -Patsy Cline

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  • Greg Louganis on mom

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    “Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I’d always felt there was something to live up to – expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.” -Greg Louganis

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  • Chuck Klosterman on mom

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    “In Fargo, they say, well, that’s a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.” -Chuck Klosterman

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  • Sam Rockwell on mom

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    “I saw things at an early age because my mom was a theater actress. I did a play with her when I was 10 years old.” -Sam Rockwell

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  • Cheryl Hines on mom

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    “Well, when I was a little girl we had 17 cats once. They all lived outside, and they kept having more kittens. My mom made us put little ribbons around each kitten’s neck, put them in a wagon, and go door-to-door around the neighborhood to try to give them away.” -Cheryl Hines

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  • Octavia Spencer on mom

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    “I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, ‘Maybe I want to be an actor’. And she said, ‘Maybe not that’.” -Octavia Spencer

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  • Iggy Pop on mom

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    “I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.” -Iggy Pop

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  • Faith Hill on mom

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    “When you’re a mom and you have three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I’ve got other things to deal with.” -Faith Hill

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  • Chanel Iman on mom

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    “My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it’s always been a dream of hers.” -Chanel Iman

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  • Jenna Fischer on mom

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    “I’ve had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother.” -Jenna Fischer

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  • Sean Lennon on mom

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    “The most important thing in my father’s life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.” -Sean Lennon

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  • Helen Hunt on mom

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    “I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.” -Helen Hunt

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  • Beau Bridges on mom

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    “My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other’s houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.” -Beau Bridges

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  • Paul Westerberg on mom

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    “Right now, it hasn’t affected my music other than the fact that I don’t have time to write any of it. That’s no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I’d have…

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  • Rodney Atkins on mom

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    “I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time’s a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a…

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  • Lara Stone on mom

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    “My mom didn’t use face cream, like, nothing at all. She’s got great skin and looks very youthful.” -Lara Stone

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