- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't deny that I had a very privileged upbringing, but my parents and that town maintained a sense of normalcy that I think many people find hard to achieve, and I am so grateful for that.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to go to college, and my parents said, 'Well, then you'd better get a job, because we're not paying for you to drop out of school.' So I delivered pizza near USC for a while. We had to wear khakis and a baseball hat with the logo on it, and I worked almost every day.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
My name is Dylan simply because my parents did not know before I was born if I would be a boy or a girl, and Dylan was a name that worked in both cases.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.
- Chocolate
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
So when I told my parents I wanted to go into acting because I was flunking out of my first year of junior college, they were relieved that I had picked something other than joining the army. But I can't imagine how they had high hopes for me.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be really anxious about money. I got that from my parents. I still am, but for entirely different reasons.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was talking about. Then, when they would come over to my house, I'd play them some blues. Their parents wouldn't let them come back. The blues were still called 'race records' back then.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents did call me Zowie now and then, but then, realising that it drew too much attention, they called me 'Joe'. Then, later, I sort-of co-opted my own name back.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an actor as a kid, and a lot of people would tell you to be realistic, but from a young age, our parents really realized that Jonathan and I were so driven.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love acting and directed. And Jonathan loved magic. Whatever we were passionate about, our parents supported us.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were studying at the Royal Antwerp Academy, we were taught to seek inspiration from everyone, everything and everywhere. My parents and grandparents were also a great inspiration for me a very young age.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020