- I Am
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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky enough to have parents with a huge film library. My mum is a huge Bollywood film geek. When we were kids, we would watch Indian films with her as well as Chinese and Japanese films. My father was more into the classics, American films, and also Hitchcock films.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are OK with me wearing a small heel, up to 1.5 inches high. Heels give me height when I wear such long dresses. For me, they complete the outfit.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in London, England during the great fog of 1952, but survived the coal-fueled air pollution with no ill effects and after less than a year in England was carried to Canada by my parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
- Nov 07, 2020
The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
- Us
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- Nov 07, 2020