- Curious
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
My secret vice is Sudoku puzzles. Can't stop playing them. My parents are accountants. I blame them entirely.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in fourth grade, I had a lot of upheaval in my life. Both of my parents remarried, and we all got new houses. That was also the year my older brother got very sick.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family always ate dinner at the table, and we would chat about our day while eating. My parents like to have a few glasses of wine and linger after the meal is over, peeling oranges for dessert while talking. It's lovely.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a teenager, I ached to grow up even more than I dreaded to. I craved escape from my parents' impositions on what I believed.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Set a good example as parents, since the most convincing argument that a girl can become a computer coder is that her mother is one.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the spring of 1978, when my parents were 23, my mother gave birth to me on their friend Robert's farm in Oregon with the help of two midwives. The labor and delivery took three hours, start to finish.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In real life, my parents pretty much approved of all my boyfriends. I guess I was doing something wrong. I should have been more rebellious.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the suburban kid of Scottish parents, and the idea of an acting career was so beyond my experience. I didn't even know there were drama schools until a friend told me.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020