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I grew up in a dysfunctional family. – Melissa Gilbert

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe. – Charles Eastman

I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid. – Kevin Spacey

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor. – Dane Cook

My mom always said I was the peacemaker in the family. My older brother, Eric, was the leader, the creative one. I was just his puppet. – Gwen Stefani

I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. – Carlos Fuentes

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children. – Mary J. Blige

I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day. – Mitch Albom

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it. – Christina Applegate

For me, family always comes first I would do anything to protect them. – Mark Wahlberg

My family went through divorces and remarriages and the later, blended home – and then watched that home explode, too. – Jeffrey Kluger

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them. – Jeffrey Kluger

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge – out of fairness to goats. – Jeffrey Kluger

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun. – Edie Falco

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly. – Bradley Cooper

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. – Bill Murray

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food. – Angie Stone

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard. – Caroline Kennedy

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son. – Laura Schlessinger

We are a very crafty family. – Tori Spelling