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John Bradshaw Quotes

In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.

John Bradshaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american

Topics

Family Marriage Children Parents You

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

Matthew Pearl

Life Family Children Friends Your

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

Matthew Prior

Beauty Virtue Paint Divine Join

Green Arrow has gone through so many changes; he's been right-wing, he's been left-wing, he's been rich, he's been poor, he's been a social justice guy, then when I got him, he was a rich playboy guy. So it was a lot harder to get into a character that has so many personas in the past, and I just looked at his anger.

Ann Nocenti

Character Justice Past Anger Green

I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page.

Sue Grafton

Children Impossible Husband Know See

Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.

Douglas Rushkoff

Culture Teen Shopping Game Target

I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.

Dean Devlin

Love Generation New Whole Would

The decision to allow clergy to perform same-sex marriages at the discretion of the congregation poses challenges for seminaries training new pastors who come from denominations fundamentally opposed on biblical grounds to same-sex marriage.

Anthea Butler

Marriage Decision Training Challenges

Classical tragedy was the war between good and evil. We wanted evil to be defeated and good to be victorious. But the battle in modern tragedy is between good and good. And no matter which side wins, we'll still be heartbroken.

Asghar Farhadi

Good War Good And Evil Evil Battle

I am living on the razor's edge between success and failure, adulation and humiliation - between justifying my existence and revealing my unworthiness to be alive.

Scott Stossel

Success Failure I Am Edge Living

Celebrities are the fodder of much of the media business, so they're always interested in making you seem provocative when you're not, or trying to bring you some sort of embarrassment by revealing something you'd rather not have revealed. That's the downside of celebrity.

Todd Rundgren

Business Media Trying You Celebrity

There are really a lot of dark shadings to a lot of my stuff.

Richard Linklater

Dark Stuff Lot Really

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

Muqtada al Sadr

Good People For The People