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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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have the support of my parents and my teachers. They made it very possible for me to go to a school that is open and supportive of me being gone at times and pursuing acting. But school always comes first for me.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our blackness and how to survive being black in America was something that our parents instilled in us extraordinarily well.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are actors and never brought work home. I didn't even know what they did until I was about 10 years old. We never talked about it.
- Gretzky
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in Toronto with my parents, and my dad took me to an outdoor hockey rink. I was 3 or 4, and I just remember everything about that day. For some reason, I thought, 'This is it. This is what I'm supposed to do.' And this is around the time that Gretzky came to L.A., so I immediately joined a hockey league.
- Nov 07, 2020