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The dearest people around me are my family and friends.
My family brought me up to be very respectful of people.
People have now started recognizing me as well as my family.
I'm very close to my family; they're the most important people to me.
People treat me like family, 'cause I've always treated them like family.
I try to stay centered in my faith and my family and the close people around me.
People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.
My family are so proud of me for standing up for marginalised people in nerd communities.
People's analysis of why to vote with me had to do with how they felt I could handle my family.
I come from a family where people are physically affectionate. Hugging and kissing comes naturally to me.
Due to my serious kind of roles, people - apart from my close friends and family - did not know the real me.
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.
Every family, people easily relate me with their daughter, sister or the girl they always knew in their neighbourhood.
I think people looked at me as one of them - an ordinary girl from an ordinary family with a voice they could recognise.
A perfect dinner for me is being with people I really want to be with. It starts and stops with my company and my family.
I, like many people, have had bumps in the road when it comes to family. Family dynamics are complicated and weigh heavily on me.
People always tell me that they grew up with me - like I'm their brother or uncle or some other family member. That keeps me going.
For me, I saw a psychologist because I wanted to connect more with people, with the earth, my environment. I want to connect more to my family.
People get so frustrated with me, so much so that they've threatened me, they've threatened my family and it just cannot go on, it really can't.
The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
The vast majority of what I've seen written about me is not true. My family and friends - the people who matter to me - they know the real story.
Making people laugh was the only thing I ever truly excelled at. But at home, I was so quiet with my family, which taught me to be really observant.
My family came from Spain in 1725, and if people want to consider me Hispanic, they can, but I didn't advertise that way, and I'm an American first.
It's still a soft R, but when I watch other people's standup, I'm dumbfounded that people call me dirty. That's only because I did family television.
People often say that having a family makes you make safer choices. It's been the total opposite for me. It's really made me want to make bolder choices.
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.
I think a lot of people assume you need to be born into a special creative family to have a career as a writer. So I never thought it would happen for me.
I think everyone can have their own opinion. I think that all that matters is how I feel and my opinion, my coaches, and the people around me, like my family.
I always thought my family was so bizarre, so when people started coming up to me and saying, 'My family was exactly like yours,' I was completely knocked out.
People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.
Do people talk about Kenny Florian coming from a wealthy family and all this? I don't think they do. People say these things about me when they don't even know me.
I always preach this to people, even my teammates and family: 'Always know someone's working harder than you, trying to get that spot you have.' That's what drives me.
When people ask me where I'm from, I say I'm from the Sudan. But when they ask what my hometown is, I say London. It's where I lived, and it's where my whole family lived.
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them.
After doing two years in prison, trust me, I've seen a lot of tough guys pray. They're not just praying for themselves; they're praying for their family and the people they've let down.
I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.
I have parents and family who will never allow me not to be grounded. If I thought for a second that I could possibly lift off the ground, I have a thousand people who will grab my ankles.
I was on Oprah's show recently talking about the people who impacted me the most. One was a teacher and one was my soccer coach. I didn't even go into my family, who had the most influence.
Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.
Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and there was always something that would stop me, I thought they were asking me for the wrong motives.
I want to be here for my family. I want to make stuff in Australia. I want to take what I've learned and contribute it to the industry. I think there's a moral imperative to do so for people like me.
Especially with 'Be Alright,' that's about a bunch of relationships and some people that I'd never even met, there was some stories friend and family had told me over the years, that I put into the song.
My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, 'Thank you for representing us,' and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that's been amazing.
I had so many people in my family with dementia that it felt like it belonged to me in a way. I feel like the same with teenage depression because I went through it. I feel like I'm allowed to write about it; it's mine.
I definitely had a gang influence with friends and family growing up in South Central, and people might think that Beverly Hills definitely shielded me from some problems. But in actuality, it only opened up a whole new can of worms.
I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.
Friends in the Midwest often ask me what it's like to raise a family in Los Angeles. I say it's just like where they are, but warmer and with more traffic. I also tell them people here seem a bit more tolerant of those who are different.