Brooke Shields Quotes

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Brooke Shields

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 31, 1965

Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.

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I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

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I've never found therapy to be a sign of weakness; I've found the opposite to be true. The willingness to have a mirror held up to you definitely requires strength.

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I always feel like the odd mom out, because trust me when I tell you I'm on my girls. And every time I am, I know from the outside it looks like I'm an overbearing, controlling parent. But I don't think we have any responsibility to anybody else but our kids and ourselves.

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I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

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The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.

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I was such a nerd, a complete geek, but then I was lucky enough to have a fancy career, where I can be like 'See, I'm not a nerd. Look, I'm in 'Vogue.'

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My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.

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From the time I could speak, I knew I wanted to have children. It was just an innate desire.

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I've never been naturally fashion conscious. I'm the kind of person who sees a whole outfit in a magazine, runs out and buys it but looks like a clown.

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We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

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The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.

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The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms.

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I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

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I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.

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I don't like to leave my children for long periods of time. It's made me more picky about roles that are close, especially on television.

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Honesty is the quality I value most in a friend. Not bluntness, but honesty with compassion.

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I always sold other peoples' fashions, so I wore jeans and t-shirts, and I put on what they needed to sell, and I'd sell it. So as far a nurturing my own style, it took me quite a long time to do it.

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I'm a hands-on mum and I'm lucky to be able to be that. I can remember the things my mum used to do with me and that time together is so important.

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The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.

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