- Me
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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
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and guardians about finding a place with likeminded people where they can feel accepted. That's what I needed, and that's what I found with musical theater.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in England - though both of my parents are American - and there's something about the 'Muppets' where they have this combination of English and American humor.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched all kinds of dirty movies as a kid. My parents were very liberal about that, and I was still an uber-nerd who never drank or did drugs. I don't think it matters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd been raised by my parents who taught me not to think you're better than you are.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are.
- Expectations
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must make choices that are outside of the familial expectations of us, or we'll just be repeating the mistakes. Our parents came here to give us better choices.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!
- Naughty
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot of stigma attached to being in a home. Other parents don't want their kids to play with you because you're naughty or nasty.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is so much a part of me: my parents told me that when I was an infant, I wouldn't eat unless the radio was playing music.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
While 'The Middle' is still funny for adults to watch, there aren't sex jokes. And I'm fine with that. I like the idea that my nieces and nephews can watch it without their parents.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020