- Life
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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
My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.
- Nov 07, 2020
Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In some ways, siblings, and especially sisters, are more influential in your childhood than your parents.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an interesting point about sisters not getting the same attention as parents and children, and even brothers. I suspect it's just because women didn't count that much and weren't the ones writing the accounts.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you talk to your friends the way your parents talk, they will think you are stiff and odd.
- Shape
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the shape of our bodies has as much to do with the shape of our parents as it does with training.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a big thing in Canada that parents need to talk to their children about drugs and sex. I don't think talking to your kids about war is any less important than that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't have drama in high school. So when I graduated high school and started at Wayne State in Detroit, I told my parents I was going to major in theater. And they were like, 'OK. Why? You've never done it.' But, it was just what I wanted, and they came to see my very first show and, from then, completely supported me.
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- Nov 07, 2020