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I don't want to achieve less than my mum and dad. -- Tinie Tempah
I've definitely done something that's made my mum and dad forever proud. -- Tinie Tempah
My mum and dad had worked incredibly hard to afford me an education. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke -- Melina Marchetta
Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey. -- Nick Hornby
Because my mum and dad brought me up to believe that people are different but equal. And that I should treat everyone, no matter who, with the same respect I'd like to be shown. -- Malorie Blackman
When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family. -- Julia Stone
To win the X Factor would mean the world to me and my family. I'd buy mum and dad a house and then I think I would buy myself a car and have a little shopping trip. -- Leona Lewis
I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence. -- Leona Lewis
I don't know what's going on with Mum and Dad, but it's weird. Mum keeps asking Dad to do things and he keeps doing them Unfotunately, she hasn't said 'Hand over your money and make your way to Europe! -- Louise Rennison
The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane. -- Kylie Minogue
He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy... -- J. K. Rowling
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books. -- Geraldine Brooks
I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living. -- Harry Treadaway
Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad". -- Simon Armitage
I never really was good at being a family general man, really. I hardly ever spent any time with my mum and dad whatever, really, or brothers or sisters. We just really didn't get along. I was pretty much like the black sheep of the family, to be honest. -- Andrew Chan
Kazim-Richards - there's only one. You type it into Google and nothing else comes up. My first names were meant to be Colin Kazim but the registry office got it wrong. There is no-one with that name - not even my mum and dad - just me - I love it! -- Colin Kazim-Richards
The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads. -- Nick Hornby
I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting me - they're completely incredible people. It was my dad who encouraged me to question everything, to forge my own path, to think, to read. I always felt it was my right to question everything. -- Dan Stevens
The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting. -- Willem Dafoe
My mum and dad ran a family cafe in Sligo for 35 years and worked long hours. We grew up in a very hard-working family and had a lovely atmosphere, as we lived above the restaurant. It definitely made me want to work hard, whatever I chose to do. As the baby of seven kids, I was definitely a bit spoilt. -- Shane Filan
I love money, and I love movement. I like what it has let me do for my family. I have paid off my mum and dad's mortgage, I've bought them two BMWs, they can have anything they want. I am buying a fleet of cars for myself. I have unemployed my sisters, they don't need to work, don't need to worry about a thing. -- Conor McGregor
My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple. -- Rita Ora
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish. -- Dominic West
My mum is a school teacher and my dad is an electrician. -- Jai Courtney
Watching TV mum said," Do you miss your dad?" And I said," Who? -- Louise Rennison
I'd like to thank ma da (dad)... my mum for doin' aw ma washin' -- Charlie Flynn
My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics. -- Matthew William Goode
My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics. -- Matthew William Goode
My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist. -- Ben Barnes
My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots. -- Katharine Isabelle
I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are. -- Christopher Eccleston
Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society. -- Maggie Stiefvater
The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me. -- Katie Price
I've got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I've got my mum's looks and sensibilities. -- Max Irons
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed. -- Grant Bowler
I don't like feeling vulnerable. I think my mum and dad's divorce affected me more than I let on. -- Abbey Clancy
What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None. -- Peter Jackson
The first time my mum and dad went to the theatre was at my drama school in third year. -- Amanda Hale
Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad. -- Gareth Gates
I had a very strict upbringing with my dad and was very close to my mum, who was extremely loving. -- Tori Amos
My dad's Jewish and my mum is Christian, so I grew up with no religion. Just whatever religion I wanted. -- Nikki Reed
Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier. -- Orlando Bloom
I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me. -- Aaron Taylor-Johnson
I've got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody's equal. -- Nicholas Hoult
I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad. -- Abbie Cornish
I had a somewhat frenetic childhood because my mum and dad split up when I was five, and then my mum remarried. -- Mark Ronson
I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier. -- Laura Haddock
My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British. -- Tamara Ecclestone
My mum is a bit unconventional; she's outdoorsy and has more of an emotional intelligence, whereas my dad is pragmatic; he's a businessman. -- Tamsin Egerton
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now. -- Ronnie Wood
My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now. -- Ronnie Wood
My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out. -- Hugh Grant
My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
It's not easy for you, Dad You seek your own space You slope off to watch telly But still see (Mom's Mum's Mam's) face -- John Walter Bratton
You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space. -- Laurence Fox
I've been so lucky to have my mum and dad because they've worked to give my brother and I everything. We're not spoilt children. -- Amy Childs
My mum and dad have always enjoyed life, and it's something that's been instilled in me. I wake up in a good mood most mornings. -- Rafe Spall
My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres. -- Danielle de Niese
My mum's a bouncy, energetic, driven, crazy woman, and my dad's very relaxed, doesn't say much. I have the best of both worlds in my personality. -- Ella Eyre
My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea. -- Miranda Raison
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life. -- Alan Cumming
I asked my Dad once, "How did you and Mum stay married for 33 years?" He said. "Well, we never wanted to get divorced at the same time. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had that work ethic in me. -- Amy Childs
My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his! -- Blake Lively
Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts. -- Lee Westwood
On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad. -- Julian Lennon
My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers. -- Benicio Del Toro
Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do. -- Saoirse Ronan
My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time. -- Lianne La Havas
I definitely take after my dad, looks-wise. But my mum is my greatest inspiration. All the women in my family are amazing. They're hilarious. I love funny people. -- Shari Sebbens
I'm very, very close to my mum and dad. My mum is only nineteen years older than me, so she could be my older sister, which is really nice. -- Luke Evans
Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me. -- Kate Winslet
Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me. -- Kate Winslet
Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment. -- Elizabeth Hurley
There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine. -- Norah Jones

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