- Modeling
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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
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had me speak Spanish first knowing I was going to speak English in school.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they grew up, I always find very interesting.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a lot of parents of kid actors I've worked with have pressured them into acting, but my parents are different. I'm really lucky to have them because they let me make my own decisions.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just came home and said, 'I'm a vegetarian.' My parents were very kind about it. And then, I became a vegan a year or two after that. Animal cruelty really got to me.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since the beginning of time, every child on the planet has endeavored to please their parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents met at the Art Institute of Chicago as students, and somewhere in there, they procreated off to the side and created me.
- Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and I feel like it's an old Southern thing where people say that, as a kid, you can be an astronaut or a ballerina or a singer, but as a grown person, you need to go and get a job.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's Israeli. He was born in Baghdad to Iraqi Jews. Then, at age two, his parents wanted to move to their homeland and he grew up in Israel. I've been there twice, once as a baby and once when I was 15.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd grown up knowing all about Don Bradman and visited his museum in Bowral quite a few times and absolutely loved the place and then to go back there and receive my baggy green and play my first Test match there at the oval, and obviously my parents were there and a lot of family and friends, it was really cool.
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, my dad taught me how to cook. He's a genius in the kitchen. I went to Vietnam with my parents, and I went on a cooking course with him.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020