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  • Ethel Waters on mom

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    “In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.” -Ethel Waters

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  • Kristen Wiig on mom

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    “I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom’s an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, ‘I’m afraid it’s gonna be bad,’ and it’s hard for me to start sometimes.” -Kristen Wiig

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  • Jason Mraz on mom

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    “I listened to the radio, so I was influenced by everyone from Michael Jackson to Milli Vanilli. But thankfully my dad had a collection of Cat Stevens albums while my mom was listening to jazz.” -Jason Mraz

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  • Nathan Fillion on mom

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    “I don’t spend a lot of time online. My mother’s really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she’ll forward it to me. She’s like my little Internet filter. It’s always nice to see something going up if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where…

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  • Sherri Shepherd on mom

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    “My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I’m 42, thank you. I didn’t want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra…

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  • Wendy Liebman on mom

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    “My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.” -Wendy Liebman

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  • Brooke Burke on mom

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    “When I was a new mom, I used to think that life was going to be balanced, and I strived for that. But life is crazy!” -Brooke Burke

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  • Padma Lakshmi on mom

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    “I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.” -Padma Lakshmi

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  • Travis Barker on mom

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    “My mom died when I was 16. I had a rough childhood, you know what I mean, but it made me strong.” -Travis Barker

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  • Jane Seymour on mom

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    “I spend my afternoons painting and working on my Open Hearts jewelry line for Kay Jewelers. I designed an image of a heart that isn’t completely closed. My mom always told me to live with an open heart – when life gets tough, you should go out and help someone else.” -Jane Seymour

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  • Kellan Lutz on mom

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    “I was blessed, because I come from a family where they knock you down before you float away. I have a lot of brothers who just make sure we have our feet on the ground, and my mom is a rock star. She is an amazing mother.” -Kellan Lutz

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  • Paul Feig on mom

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    “Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve felt comfortable in a suit. It all started when my mom bought me a three-piece Pierre Cardin suit. I wore that thing everywhere. Eventually I realized I was going to be the kid who got beat up in school, but I kept wearing it.” -Paul Feig

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  • Andy Cohen on mom

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    “Dinner ‘conversation’ at the Cohens’ meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day’s events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.” -Andy Cohen

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  • Marlo Thomas on mom

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    “When I was growing up, my mother was always a friend to my siblings and me (in addition to being all the other things a mom is), and I was always grateful for that because I knew she was someone I could talk to and joke with, and argue with and that nothing would ever…

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  • Fergie on mom

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    “Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.” -Fergie

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  • Ayelet Waldman on mom

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    “Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.” -Ayelet Waldman

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  • Dane Cook on mom

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    “My nickname for my mom was ‘The Compass.’” -Dane Cook

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  • Cynthia Nixon on mom

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    “We’ve all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she’s around another adult, she’s not paying attention anymore.” -Cynthia Nixon

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  • Sarah Michelle Gellar on mom

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    “Everything I am is because of my mom.” -Sarah Michelle Gellar

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  • Rainn Wilson on mom

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    “My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.” -Rainn Wilson

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  • Alicia Keys on mom

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    “My mom is definitely my rock.” -Alicia Keys

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  • Julius Erving on mom

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    “I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.” -Julius Erving

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  • Rachael Ray on mom

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    “Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother’s, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to…

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  • Emma Roberts on mom

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    “You don’t realize how hard it is to live on your own. But there’s no mom to do your laundry, and make you dinner and to do things for you, and you don’t think about little things like buying paper towels and salt.” -Emma Roberts

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  • Anna Torv on mom

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    “My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always ‘Out of the house!’ There was no watching television on weekends.” -Anna Torv

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