- 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
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My house was very strange. I didn't do things other kids did because my parents were very strict - I stayed at home, quiet in my room.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both my parents are Italian. My mom was born and raised in Italy. My dad was born in Canada, but then they moved to Italy.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family is from the south of Italy in this little place called Calabria. It's a big part of my family, the Italian culture. I grew up around it. My parents speak Italian, and I speak Italian.
- Eros
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid, my parents would always listen to a lot of Beatles, Queen, Elvis. My mom was born and raised in Italy, and my dad was born in Canada and moved back and forth between Canada and Italy, so they would also listen to all the big Italian stars like Eros Ramazzotti, Gigi D'Alessio, Tiziano Ferro, Laura Pausini.
- Cross
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individual children are separated from their parents only when those parents cross the border illegally and are arrested. We can't have children with parents who are in incarceration.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a blast growing up in a house where you have motivating parents, and my mom would always challenge me no matter what it was.
- Idiots
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- Nov 07, 2020
But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are like religious atheists.
- Freaked
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I told my parents, 'I'm going to be an actor,' they screamed and wept and freaked out.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could have gone down a very different path, but my parents would not let me give up football.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers' films and westerns and stuff like that. That's where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020