Being part of the Workshop is like being part of a really big family. Everyone is so close. Everyone feels the success of others who go on to do well. Whatever happens, I will still be part of the Workshop.
On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family – five kids and 12 grandkids – so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I’m chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
I was singing before I started acting. As a kid, I would always perform at the big family parties.
I think growing up in a big family taught me a lot of problem solving and how to share and compromise, and that’s been helpful in my marriage.
When you’re the mom in a big family comedy, you have to get your personality when you can.
Ronda Rousey is coming to WWE at such a great time because we’re a big family here, and we try to help everyone succeed. She has passion for it, which is awesome, and she respects the business, which is awesome. Everyone has been helping her and walking her through everything.
I just started going into my room and literally going into my closet and singing into the clothes. Yeah, the Griffin are a really big family, and so I was trying to just sort of get to sing and experiment without bugging a lot of people.
My day job may be exhausting, but cooking is my peace. My dream is to have a big family with lots of grandkids. And we’ll get together every Sunday for a hearty dinner at our house, and we’ll all live in flavorful bliss, happily ever after.
I am a family person; we are a big family, and I need my friends around me.
Really, the club is like a big family. The locker-room spirit is also similar to what I had experienced at Liverpool, but I really like it here at Juventus, because it’s not just a set of champions. The sense of a team, the group, is strongly felt.
I love having a big family. I think it’s easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.
On various occasions we have been able to host almost all Monegasques on the palace square… It feels like a big family.
I grew up in a big family. You have to learn to get along with each other… get things done as a family.
I think the best thing that Jonathan and I have done is… having really strong people working with us – our work environment and all of our employees and everybody, we’re like one big family.
Certainly part of being from a big family is that you have to shout to make yourself heard.
I grew up in a family where I had a lot of different siblings from – you know, I grew up in a big family, and I think it’s a beautiful thing.
I forced myself to have a big family because I never had a big family.
I have a big family, and I spend a lot of time with them.
Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don’t have to be perfect. You can do okay with ‘almost.’
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
I’m the youngest of six. When you’re in a big family, you get put to the test right away. Do I like being the center of attention? Or do I not like it? You have to make that decision a lot growing up. I knew from a very young age that I liked it.
I’m starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I’ve driven a lot of cars – sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there’s nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.
I have a big family and had to move them all from the coast of Oregon to New York three times for the workshops and for the actual production itself, which had about a four month development rehearsal schedule.
We don’t have nannies and all that, we look after our own kids. It’s just what you do. If you want a big family that’s just what you do, isn’t it?
We’re all a big hippie family so I got five sisters and a bunch of different mothers. Not really, but my sisters’ mothers are all good friends with my mother. We’re a big family, 25 people.
Everyone in my family has been in music – my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather – so it’s quite a big family tree.
I’m from a big family. I’ve got 10 nieces and nephews.
I’ve always wanted a big family – not this big!
Growing up, I listened and was influenced by a lot of those around me. I have a big family, and my dad listened to ’80s music, my mom listened to Motown, my brother listened to reggae, and my granddad was the one that got me into jazz and swing music.
I believe the world is one big family, and we need to help each other.
We have the greatest fans in the world, and our growth has been so organic. It’s online; it’s out at the shows. It’s a big family, and they know we’re going to do our best, and we know they’re going to give it their best.
I think everyone in snowboarding is close. We’ve become a big family. It’s not a cutthroat sport. I’m competing against one of my best friends, and I think it’s cool to be at the top of the half pipe, dropping in with your competitor but your best friend, too.
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.
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