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I grew up in a dysfunctional family. -- Melissa Gilbert
The human race is one big dysfunctional family. -- Robert Barron
Dysfunctional families have sired a number of pretty good actors. -- Gene Hackman
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it. -- Mary Karr
If I grew up with a dysfunctional family, I would eventually start a book club. -- Martha MacIsaac
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed. -- Tamora Pierce
It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together. -- Patrick Duffy
It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family. -- Anna Wintour
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. -- Story Musgrave
My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu. -- Kirby Wright
When I clicked into this idea of doing a band and examining a band as a dysfunctional family, I wanted to reverse that Rescue Me formula. -- Denis Leary
As a child marooned in a post-war South London backwater with no ready cash and a bafflingly dysfunctional family, I had to glean my amusement wherever I could. -- Christopher Fowler
On his contract negotiations with the Devils: It's beyond money at this point. They're not even treating him as a member of their family, unless it's a dysfunctional family. -- Kurt Overhardt
With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation. -- Mary Oliver
If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.' -- Jeff Foxworthy
A lot can happen [ because of the dysfunctional family]. People don't look at that. They think, "Oh, my kids are going to be fine. My kids are resilient." But at a certain point, the damage starts. They start to feel pain - and when they feel bad, they start to take painkillers. We want to kill the pain. -- Nikki Sixx
'The Glass Castle' by Jeannette Walls is the quintessential dysfunctional family. -- Sara Shepard
The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over. -- Bill Jensen
So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families. -- Stephen Karam
If you grew up in a dysfunctional family, then there is really no hope for you to have a good relationship. That is another myth that we have to throw off, so that we can get into what I call Reality. -- Gary Chapman
I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool. -- Chris Eigeman
Every family is dysfunctional. -- Andy Garcia
I love books about dysfunctional families. -- Sara Shepard
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities. -- bell hooks
People talk about dysfunctional families; I've never seen any other kind. -- Sue Grafton
Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not. -- Shailene Woodley
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life -- Bo
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life. -- Bo Bennett
I've learned that a family can have little glitches without being labeled dysfunctional. -- Kathy Najimy
We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal. -- Carnie Wilson
I think every family is dysfunctional, and some manage to control it better than others. -- Viggo Mortensen
Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families. -- Lisa Kleypas
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't. -- Malachy McCourt
We fight a lot, you know, but that's family. We may be dysfunctional but we're still family. -- Star Jones
Working in a restaurant means being part of a family, albeit usually a slightly dysfunctional one. Nothing is accomplished independently. -- Joe Bastianich
Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family. -- Chelsea Handler
I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships. -- James Caan
I was quite able at the insignificant work I did in MI6, but absolutely dysfunctional in my domestic life. I had no experience of fatherhood. I had no example of marital bliss or the family unit. -- John le Carre
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm. -- Charles de Lint
I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Yeah, sometimes it gets a little sappy for me, but I'm tired of hearing about dysfunctional families in sitcoms. That's been done to death, and that's probably what everybody expected from me. But that's not what I wanted to do. -- Mike Judge
A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart. -- Keri Hulme
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin. -- Tim Vine
Your whole being is involved in taking care of someone else, worrying about what they think of you, how they treat you, how you can make them treat you better. Right now everyone in the world seems to think that they are codependent and that they come from dysfunctional families. They call it codependency. I call it the human condition. -- Cynthia Heimel
Maybe every family is dysfunctional, and that's the only thing in common throughout the world. -- Julie Delpy
It's good to learn early that every show is a family---complete with dysfunctional relationships, tough love, and plenty of occasion for forgiveness... -- Kristin Chenoweth
In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system. -- Renee Fredrickson
Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives? -- Sandra Bernhard

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