- Nature
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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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
The sweetest thing we ever had was, like, animal crackers in the pantry. I think my parents sort of passively made sure that we didn't have a lot of junk food at our disposal, and I think that helped me and all my siblings growing up with how to approach nutrition and eating right.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my own life, my parents divorced when I was young. I lived with my dad, not with my mum, after they got divorced. And it's been part of my life.
- Brother And Sister
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- Nov 07, 2020
We opened Panda Inn on June 8, 1973. The whole family - my parents, a brother and sister - all worked at the restaurant for free. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment in San Gabriel and didn't have any money.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.
- Exactly The Same
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- Nov 07, 2020
For many parents - myself included - I would be extremely happy for my children to grow up finding that their LGBT classmates are exactly the same as them.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever I have a play or opening or anything going on in my career, my parents always come up and see it.
- Gone
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Selma,' I grew up in Alabama, 45 minutes away from Selma. I have gone to that commemorative march many times with my parents.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was important to me and, I think, important to my parents that I be on my own and figure things out on my own and kind of forge my own path, and I'm really grateful for that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.
- Citizen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard to explain to my parents what's going on. You can't compare Hollywood with Cuba. I didn't even know I could dream this.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020