I wanted some family structure and stabi... | Shirley Jones

Fact Family

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

- Shirley Jones

Quote of the Day

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

- Anita Diament

Other quotes by Shirley Jones

Feeling World

The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days.

- Shirley Jones

Popular Children School Friends

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

- Shirley Jones

Fact Family

I wanted some family structure and stability, and that's what The Partridge Family afforded me, not only financially but in the fact that I could be at home with my kids.

- Shirley Jones

Love

We assume that celebrities have it easy and so love to watch them having to endure a bit of hardship.

- Shirley Jones

Name Family

I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.

- Shirley Jones

Habits

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

- Shirley Jones

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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.

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Right Family

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

- Josh Billings

Family Will

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

- Don Marquis

Actor Family Sense Today

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.

- Hugh Dancy

Family Life

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

- Douglass North

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I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

- Trevor Dunn