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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents wielded disposal cameras and Polaroids with the best of them, occasionally begging for at least one decent photo of my brother and me at the state fair, in front of the Golden Gate bridge, or smiling half-heartedly next to a mascot.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going blind, and I was in a wheelchair. I thought I was going to spend the rest of my life living with my parents.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a head start in acting. Because of my parents, I had a SAG card, an agent and a recognizable name. But I knew if I screwed up, people would never forget. I'd be dead.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
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- Nov 07, 2020