- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents Quotes
On parents, and the paths they set.
This collection covers a filmmaker's frustration that an age rating kept her intended teenage audience away, and a memory of parents who worked as preachers shaping an early sense of faith. For a poetic take on family, see Shayari.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
We learn much of parenting from our own parents. My love for my father deepened profoundly when he was kind, patient, and understanding.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents started questioning me about whether or not I was transgender - whether or not I was trying to be a woman. It was a big argument.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he'd had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone learns how to talk by doing an impression of their parents. I'm one of many people who has a highly developed ability to do that.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have very vivid memories of my parents talking about Nixon, my mom watching Watergate on the black-and-white set in the living room. The mayor at the time in Philadelphia was a guy named Frank Rizzo - a Democrat, a real bully, a racist.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a life that really matters to me, and that's because of the way I was raised. My ethics are high because my parents did a great job.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a kid trying to become famous. I wasn't a part of any Disney Channel wheelhouse. I was basically a black kid whose parents put him into the business so he could go to college.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
Going to your set with the headphones on in the middle of the night so that your parents don't know what you're doing when you're supposed to be asleep is great. I was rocking the bedroom. That was so much more fun when I got the 1200s.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make music and songs about things that real musicians and artist aren't able to make songs about - you wouldn't hear Justin Bieber making a song about homework, or, like, you wouldn't see someone make a song with their parents on the track.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because my parents were listening to a lot of African music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are born into a family like mine, you don't really know anything else. But you quickly realise that it's more about other people and how they are dealing with it. Some can be hugely in awe or uncomfortable, but to you, your parents are just your parents.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020