- Me
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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
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, with my parents and sisters, but my family would drive every weekend to Hammonton, where both my grandparents lived and where my parents were raised.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have really dope parents.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I'm really grateful that my parents chose Canada, and I feel like there's open arms here, and it's very apparent.
- Disillusionment
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- Nov 07, 2020
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched horror films growing up, and I would love watching them with friends. But then, I would spend the next week sleeping in my parents' room because I would be so scared.
- Nov 07, 2020
As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents taught me that having a passion is a rare thing, so following it through and working hard, even when it's tough, is important.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents sold my childhood home, and I literally was 35 years old, but I cried for, like, two and a half weeks. Like, openly wailed.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
Both of my parents were both multi-sport athletes. Their mindset was, be an athlete as long as possible, up until they became parents. And so they dropped their dreams for their children.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously this is something huge, just to be playing on the world stage and repping all the parents out there - not just the parents, but obviously all of the African American girls who feel as if they don't have much to rely to make your dreams come true, whatever the circumstances may be.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't look at Twitter between events because it's a distraction but I will ring my fiance and parents to let them know how it's going.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020