- Friends
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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
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 18, I got a publishing deal, so I was like, 'I can do this for real and not go to college.' When I was a teenager, my parents dragged me to a lot of songwriting conventions.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are kind of young, and my dad always listened to rock music and stuff like that, so I sort of grew up around that. As far as acting goes, I didn't really have any major influences because it wasn't really something that I focused on.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky to have parents and people who believed in me.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was writing, directing, and editing my own films as a young kid with my parents' video camera.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved records, even when I was a kid, my parents would buy me records instead of a lot of the other toys kids got. That's what I wanted. I've been collecting records and DJing my whole life, and I thank my parents for that. They had a big record collection and really imparted the magic of it on me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020