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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them. -- Nancy Werlin
We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled. -- Kenny Loggins
[On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air. -- Barbara Neely
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I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a device created by grammar schools to communicate family secrets to 32 other families before 9:15 am in the morning. -- Robert Orben
You forge different bonds with friends than with family, tell different secrets. -- Jenna Morasca
I grew up in a family of secrets; there was a lot of pathology in the family. -- Naomi Judd
The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home. -- Barry Gibb
In Brazil, we don't have Victoria's Secret, and my family are all Victoria's Secret fans, so I usually bring them back some lovely pieces. -- Adriana Lima
Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents. -- Edmund Leach
Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them. -- Tyler Perry
Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews. -- Alafair Burke
Fall on Your Knees' is really a story about secrets and family, and the idea that there are some stories or truths that need to be expressed. -- Ann-Marie MacDonald
In an attempt to amuse my friends and family, I would do impressions of Dean Martin, singing Everybody Loves Somebody. I secretly really enjoyed singing the song. -- Peter Gallagher
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility. -- Anne Lamott
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car. -- Mary Cheney
I tried to keep it secret, but the story got into the newspapers. It was more difficult for my family, who couldn't understand why the media wouldn't leave me in peace. -- Grete Waitz
I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh. -- Anne Lamott
Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of sediment. They'd find the black-and-white hairs of a dog we had when I was six, the acid-washed jeans my mother once wore, the seven blood-soaked pillowcases from the time I skinned my knee. All our family secrets rest in endless piles. -- Holly Black
Victoria's Secret is like a big family. -- Candice Swanepoel
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature. -- Tayari Jones
The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about how my own family had got its foothold in Australia. -- Kate Grenville
This is an old family secret, and I just found this out recently, and it almost broke my heart. My mother said to me, 'I had never told you this, but God, you were an ugly baby'. -- John Stamos
Work... family - I'm doing it all. But here's the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I see working the same balance: my house is trashed. It is strewn with socks and tutus. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets. -- Dee Dee Myers
Growing up, my family wasn't very tight. We were more like a tour group with secrets... -- Dennis Miller

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