I regret not taking my 83-year-old mother to the Oscars the year I won. She deserved the Oscar for giving up so much for me.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a feeling of remorse for not sharing a significant achievement with a loved one who has made sacrifices.
Kathy Bates reflects on her regret of not including her elderly mother in the celebration of her Oscar win, highlighting the deep bond between them and the sacrifices her mother made throughout her life. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing and honoring the contributions of family members, particularly those who have supported us unconditionally.
In practice
During a speech at an awards ceremony, I shared a quote from Kathy Bates to highlight the importance of family support.
Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.
Sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad.
Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.
I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.
But it wasn't just that he was the most intelligent member in the family. He was also the nicest, in lots of ways. He never got mad at anybody. People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily, but Allie never did, and he had very red hair.
My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.
Our favorite teams bring people together, keep family members close, bond people from different generations. Some of the happiest moments of my life involve something that happened with one of my teams. Some of the best relationships I ever had were with Boston athletes that I never even met.
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