- Me
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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
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I decided I would go to NYU so I could get into the comedy world and have legit housing, and my parents would not have trusted investing in a straight-up comedy career.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through the 'It's About Ability' campaign and with parents and other members of society, we have created a social family for children with disabilities.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always taken apart calculators and anything I can get my hands on when I was younger. When I was around 12 - like, 6th grade - my parents always had around Mac computers because my mom is a teacher. So I'd always be playing around with all the crazy applications and making banners and printing things out and always into graphic design.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was really, really young, I wanted to be a cook at Bob Evans because my parents would always go there every Sunday after church.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I dunno whether it was to do with my parents - we were working-class - but it was important to me to be self-sufficient.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were working class and didn't have much money, so holidays tended to be two weeks in a caravan at St. Andrews or a B&B in Blackpool.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom is in the navy and my dad works for the army, but I never called them 'sir' or 'ma'am' or anything like that, and we never really moved around a lot because both my parents were stationed in D.C.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
- Good Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
- Room
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that you wouldn't be at least as successful as your parents.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents are English and I was born in West Africa, and I moved around as a kid, lived in Bristol, lived in Buckinghamshire and Surrey as a kid, and then moved when I was 16.
- Brightly
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- Nov 07, 2020