- Drive
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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
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend with one of her clients and his little sister while the parents went away on vacation. She brought me along.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents would use all of their money for us to go new and exciting places, instead of a new television or a big car.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, my parents bought a house in Vasai, but because it was inconvenient for us all to travel, they sent my sister and I to live with our nana-nani at Dadar.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had some really incredible people who mentored me and gave me things I never got from my parents.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who were gay were pitied and ridiculed by my parents - they had no modern sense of people being allowed to be who they were.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still miss my parents every day; I adored them. And when you have no children, friends are even more important to you.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't for a second regret my closeness to them because they were wonderful, golden parents who gave me so much confidence.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Confidence was the backbone of my upbringing. I was an only child, so I was spoilt, loved, and given an enormous amount of confidence by my parents.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly my parents were very political, so the whole Berlin Wall thing - and being a kid of the '80s - that's just something that's in your experience.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not only would my parents work full hours, my parents both woke up at 5 A.M. My dad left the house at 5 A.M. to go to the fish market to pick out his own fish, and my mom woke up at 5 A.M. to wake me up in order to get me ready for skating before school.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
To all the little girls out there, I would tell them to really appreciate what their parents do for them. And also to truly believe in their dream. If they truly believe that they're capable, things will happen for them - as long as they put in the work, of course.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020