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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
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baba Seva - Seva Efraimovna Gekhtman - was born in a small town in Ukraine in 1919. Her father was an accountant at a textile factory, and her mother was a nurse. Her parents moved to Moscow with her and her brothers when she was a child.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brodsky was born in May, 1940, a year before the German invasion. His mother worked as an accountant; his father was a photographer and worked for the Navy Museum in Leningrad when Brodsky was young. They were doting parents and much beloved by Iosif Brodsky, who was their only child.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never behaved like a star kid, and since a lot of people in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries know my parents, they treat me like their own child.
- Actress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to be an actress, but my parents were adamant that I complete my studies first before I take up acting.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to act, but not because my parents were associated with the industry.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm from the suburbs, really, so I actually didn't go to Montreal until I was, like, 19. I wasn't allowed to go to the city at night or really be in the scene with other producers. It was hard for my parents to understand what I was trying to do as an artist, but it didn't stop me. They eventually saw that it wasn't a joke.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom and dad were 'helicopter parents,' literally. Meaning, I didn't have a nanny, so I went up in the helicopter. My entire early childhood education consisted of tagging along while they reported on car accidents, multiple-alarm fires, and shootouts.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents covered police pursuits, and it was, in many ways, the beginnings of reality show TV in this captivating story that was a lot of flash but not all that much substance.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.
- Football Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Through school, I saw plenty of theatre my parents weren't necessarily up on. They would prefer a football game to watching 'The Nutcracker,' and that's fine. I enjoy both.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't realize until high school that the man wearing a cowboy hat on the poster in our garage was actually Ronald Reagan, so my parents just - it was how we were, I grew up on five acres of land in Flagstaff, Arizona and we really just lived a conservative lifestyle.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020