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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
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Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre-med, and I graduated with a degree in psychology and a concentration in neuroscience. Really, the plan was for me to go to med school.
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I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.
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I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.
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Peaky' is a very personal thing for me because it's based on stories that I was told as a kid by my parents. At the very beginning, I tried to have other writers involved but it just didn't work.
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There were only two other Chinese families in this town of 25,000, but to our parents, the determining factor was the quality of the public school system.
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However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.
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My parents were reasoned and deep thinkers. My dad is an intellectual and a literary man.
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The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing numbers of parents have become disenchanted with government-run public schools. Many parents have simply taken matters into their own hands, literally.
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My parents are Hungarian.
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Most parents don't want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.
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My parents worked as brokers at Oppenheimer securities. They managed to finagle me a job.
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Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece.
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There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.
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My parents always got a kick out of my art. I was always able to make them laugh. As I got older, I remember the thrill I got when I graduated from making my classmates laugh to making adults laugh. Kind of a watershed moment.
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