- 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
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone assumes that I talk to my parents a lot about writing, but I didn't - they're my parents. We didn't have constant workshops running in my household.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not as though I decided to sit down and write a mystery novel so I could capitalize on my parents' success.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events with them, and I don't feel I should purposely avoid something just for the sake of being different.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's impossible for me to disentangle how much of my storytelling urge is the product of growing up with novelist parents and how much is a genetic legacy from those same parents.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Absolutely, I grew up listening to soul music. People like Stevie, Aretha, Ray Charles, Michael and Prince. My parents' record collection was all I had when I was a little kid. If it wasn't that, it was something else in their collection.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
All my life I've been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.
- Problem
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was influenced by a lot of comedy growing up, I had good parents. They were funny, too. My mom was hilarious; my dad was hilarious. I guess being at home around the environment was just a good stage to get started.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents argued a lot. It was pretty tumultuous at times.
- Marriage
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's absolutely imperative for the parents and the typical kids to have time by themselves, to go out to dinner or even go on vacation while someone else cares for the autistic child.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.
- Anecdotal
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- Nov 07, 2020