- 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
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other - the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.
- British
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not read newspaper comics unless they happen to be out when I visit my parents, but I follow several online comics, which I check every morning while I drink my coffee and wake up for the day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were both Spanish-speakers and they used to speak to me and my siblings in Spanish and we'd answer them in English.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020