- Family
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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 neighborhood was normal. I had a neighborhood where everyone knew everyone. Typical American upbringing. Sometimes we got into trouble, but everyone watched after each other, so if my parents didn't see me making trouble, another family would tell them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a parent myself, I can appreciate the MPAA and what they're supposed to do, but what happens with NC-17 is that the MPAA is basically taking away the rights of parents. They're basically telling me that I can't show my kids this movie if I decide they can see it.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents didn't have the opportunities that my wife and I have now, from a quality of life standpoint.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be told that one can be dependent on one's parents until age 26 should strike a young person who wants to grow up as demeaning, not as something to celebrate.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't bad-mouth your ex or anything like that. The key is your kid knowing that both parents still love him and are there for him.
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents, I don't know about 'strict,' but I would say they were fair and judicious, you know?
- Odd
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- Nov 07, 2020
My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.
- Nov 07, 2020
My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.
- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was German-speaking, and I arrived 10 years old to Croatia, and really wasn't speaking a lot at home with my parents in Croatian, so it was really difficult to write in Croatian. It took me two years after I went back to learn everything again in Croatian.
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- Nov 07, 2020