- Big
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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
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options - when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telling parents in New Jersey you want to act isn't exactly like telling them you want to be a doctor or a dentist. There are no guarantees. It's hard, but all the arts are. Can you imagine the pain of writer's block?
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.
- Group
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had no television, and I only heard the radio when my parents went out to a Bible study group. They liked a quiet, meditative house.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I got older, I knew my syndrome wasn't going away. It was a hard pill to swallow. I wanted to look like everyone else and blend in, and I couldn't find a way to make that happen. I couldn't blame the doctors or my parents, so I blamed myself.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Pat Cash, and I loved Mats Wilander. I went to the Australian Open with my parents, and I used to watch Wilander being cheered on by the Swedish fans, and with his game style being like mine, I drew comparisons with him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a calling inside of me. I had a sense that when I was going through experiences like living on the streets, losing my parents to AIDS, just having my whole world turned upside-down, there was this feeling inside of me like I was meant for something greater.
- Harriet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are very humble people who have simple lives... they live in a pleasant little town in China.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a lot of bands that my parents used to go see that I haven't necessarily heard of, and asking them to dig up stuff like that is a really fun way to discover music.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know how much parents love buying clothes for their kids and how they want to give them something new in the closet.
- Causing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been athletic since I was a kid. My parents got me playing tennis when I was seven years old and I started to play competitively.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020