Marcia Cross Quotes

#1. Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Jim Palmer

#2. We're not meant for happiness, you and I.

Daphne Du Maurier

#3. We may differ in the language we speak, yet we all remain children of the land.

John Okechukwu Munonye

#4. I think the best thing a parent can do, when raising a child, is simply get out of their way.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#5. Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

John Mercer Johnson

#6. I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

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#7. Your forties is not the time to be thinking about getting pregnant.

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#8. It's kind of ironic that if I get my Ph.D., I'll be a real doctor.

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#9. My friend, she is a woman." "No, no, you are deceived
she is a queen.

Alexandre Dumas

#10. If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.

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#11. Some people think wearing powder ages them, but try it anyway. For me it mattes my makeup and blends it well.

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#12. I have good genes in my family, so we'll see just how long I'll be around.

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#13. I'll tell you my routine - it's really exciting. I feed, I burp, I change diapers, I pump. And then I have a tiny window of time to myself.

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#14. I really love and it is important to me to be physically fit.

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#15. I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

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#16. I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

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#17. I'd never say no to surgery in the future, because I feel like, as I get older, I'm going to face temptation more.

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#18. I try to balance it out on the whole. Being a mum is always the priority. Next, it's taking care of yourself. Right now, I get to only work two days a week - it's a dream. I can't imagine how hard it is for mothers who work 40 hours a week.

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#19. I walk around with a hat, sunglasses, and sunscreen all the time,

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#20. For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

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#21. I never made more than $50 doing any play in Chicago. That was the way I grew up.

Jeremy Piven

#22. I've had the time to go through all the life phases with my parents, from being a bratty teenager, pushing them away, to saying later on, 'Oh my God, I can't believe what you did for me - thank you. I love you so much.'

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#23. I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

Matt Dillon

#24. Forget it," I said. "Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he'd still be preferable to listening to the two of you.

John Zakour

#25. When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition.

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#26. I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

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#27. It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

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#28. Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I am just a girl who wishes for the world.

Marilyn Monroe

#29. I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

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#30. With the red hair, you get the white skin; it's a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.

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#31. I couldn't do an acting job just to be working. It really had to have some soul to it.

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#32. Don't listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

Albert Einstein

#33. I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

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#34. I am not going to be the guy who's not pulling his weight.

James Franco

#35. I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.

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#36. What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

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#37. It's like holding a hot coal in your hand, it just burns you, it doesn't do me any good.

Joe Lauzon

#38. I use as high SPF as I can get, and I live under a hat like a mushroom all the time. Someone said they're worried about their kids getting older and doing drugs, and I got this look of horror on my face and thought, 'What if my girls don't wear hats?' But at 13 months old, they could say 'hat.'

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#39. I really have to force myself to tidy up around the house.

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