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“My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me.”

Stills Sex Parent Painting Dad My Dad Scare Components

“My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.”

Parent Voice Growing Up Teacher Growing Musician Singers Dancer Opera Rock N Roll Opera Singers

“My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.”

Parent My Family Jew Bars Orthodox Franklin Bar Mitzvah

Author:Nat Hentoff

“My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.”

Parent Streets Bombs Pregnancy Exploding Kidnapped Overprotective

Author:Mia Maestro

“My parents were part of the Christian Family Movement, where we would have Masses said in our home and rotate with other families. I recall priests coming to our home and saying Mass in our living room. Catholicism was really woven through so much.”

Said Home Christian Parent Rooms Movement Mass Priests Catholicism Recalls Living Room Woven Christian Family

Author:Catherine Hicks

“My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.”

Life And Living Parents

Author:Richard Ford

Source: Canada

“My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.”

Thinking Seems Political Parent Involved Bones Get Involved

Author:Saffron Burrows

“My parents were pretty lenient with me. But, they gave me morality while I was growing up. They taught me the difference between right and wrong.”

Parent Differences Growing Up Growing Taught Morality Lenient

Author:Mark Hoppus

“My parents were pretty liberal, but they were still parents. I definitely had my teenage rebellion.”

Stills Parent Rebellion Teenage Teenage Rebellion

Author:Lauren Oliver

“My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.”

Thinking Knows Kind Littles Important Ideas Dream Kids Able Wanted Parent Boys Support Crazy Mom My Mom Access Immigrants Racing Bike Supportive Surfing Crazy Things Boy Scout Bmx

Author:Terry Gross

“My parents were quite liberal with us, always encouraging us to be our own person and be creative.”

Persons Parent Creative Be Creative

Author:Sienna Miller

“My parents were real classic rock freaks, so I heard a lot of Zeppelin, Stones, Hendrix stuff. Thankfully, they were also into lots of old soul, too, so we listened to Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind & Fire and War. I was so isolated where I grew up (a small town in Pennsylvania) that there was literally no culture.”

War Real Soul Earth Culture Stuff Parent Wonder Fire Heard Rocks Wind Grew Grew Up Stones Towns Classic Freak Isolated Small Town Pennsylvania Hendrix Zeppelins Old Soul Classic Rock

Author:Princess Superstar

“My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.”

Way Play Night Next Actors Parent Teach Seeing Goes On Performances

Author:Billy Crudup

“My parents were really into the whole “American Dream” thing when I was growing up. They didn’t know that by the time we could attain it, the American Dream had morphed into something else entirely, and no one could pinpoint what it was anymore. But maybe that was the whole point. In America, the dream is whatever you think it is.”

Russia American Dream Soviet Union Immigrant Experience

Author:Zhanna Slor

Source: At the End of the World, Turn Left

“My parents were really nice to me.”

Parent Nice Really Nice

Author:Bryan Callen

“My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.”

Important Home Political Night Parent News Dinner Every Night

Author:Al Franken

“My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.”

Parent Strict Cartoon

Author:Questlove

“My parents were really, really cool about supporting what I wanted to do at a really young age. I think I was about 10 when I caught the bug. They would drive me down to New York if there were auditions. When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.”

Ifs Thinking Shows Running Age Wanted Young Parent New York Moved Caught Auditions Broadway Bugs Young Age Really Cool

Author:Anna Kendrick

“My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."”

Writing Said Mother Parent Powerful Four Daughter Copies Screenwriters Our Daughter

Author:Nora Ephron

“My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.”

Enough Parent Cousin

Author:Sargent Shriver

“My parents were secular. I am an atheist.”

Parent Atheist Secular

Author:Ben Elton

“My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.”

Hard Stars Parent Serious Musician Pops Touring Pop Stars

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“My parents were sixty years married.”

Years Parent Married Sixty

Author:Roddy Doyle

“My parents were skeptical about me becoming a footballer and encouraged me to study.”

Parent Study Becoming Skeptical Footballer

Author:Carles Puyol

“My parents were so old-fashioned in their attitude to sex that I would rather get in trouble with the police or at school because at least I would be punished less.”

Dating Advice First Date Online Dating Dating Tips Internet Dating Find Love Dating Help Clive Woirth Dating Diaries Dating Guide Seduction Guide

Author:Clive Worth

“My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.”

Knows Kids Parent Poor Teach Youngsters

Author:Alan Ladd

“My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miners son should go to drama school.”

Should School Parent Son Proud Drama Theatre Coal Scholarship Unheard Miners Coal Miners

Author:Brian Blessed

“My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.”

Parent Growing Up Growing Relaxed

Author:Rose Byrne

“My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.”

World Ideas Parent No Idea Strict

Author:Katy Perry

“My parents were strict. They weren't as strict on me as they were with the others, but my mother didn't want us to get on anyone's nerves... Go to someone else's house and drive their parents crazy. Another thing was they didn't want us to get into a lot of things that a lot of kids - if they're not careful - can slip into.”

Ifs Want Kids Mother House Parent Crazy Careful Nerves Slips Strict Want U

Author:Janet Jackson

“My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.”

Values Stuff Parent Creativity Productions Zero Supportive Whimsy

Author:Mindy Kaling

“My parents were supportive. But they were scared. We were undocumented. We came to the U.S. on a tourist visa and overstayed. They applied for a green card right away but it took us 12 years to get it, so for me, from the ages of 7 to 19.”

Age Parent Scared Supportive Visa

Author:Carlo Alban

“My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.”

Way Book Home Parent Teacher Grew Grew Up

Author:Alex Haley

“My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman.”

Persons Sometimes Mother Father Parent Church Neighbor Ministers Gentleman Terrific

Author:Jane Pauley

“My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that's where a lot of preachers' kids get off base sometimes. Because they don't see the same things at both places.”

Thinking Sometimes Home Kids Parent Preacher Pulpit

Author:Joel Osteen

“My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didnt talk about money around the dinner table.”

Parent Tables Dinner Traditional Filipino Dinner Table

Author:Bo Sanchez

“My parents were travelers. Every time my parents got ten dollars ahead they went somewhere. That's what they did. So I got the bug from them.”

Parent Ten Dollars Traveler Bugs

Author:Pam Houston

“My parents were true believers in the efficacy of American constitutional democracy, and I was thoroughly inculcated with reverence for what we the people are capable of doing. The complication in that simple narrative is that as I got older, the Vietnam War shook my confidence in how our democracy was working. I ended up serving in that war, but it started with a lie, and I was very proud of my father for being one of its earliest opponents.”

People War Lying Father Parent Simple Democracy Proud Capable Believer Reverence Vietnam War Complication True Believer

Author:Al Gore

“My parents were two-faced. To me, they showed no mercy. They preached from theBook of Fallen Children - Commandment 1: The Child Is Always Ungrateful. At eighteen, the free ride would stop, and I'd be dumped into the mess of the world. But in their private moments, they were soft, cowed by love. They critiqued their own parenting skills and thought of all the ways the could help their kids get ahead.”

Parenting Parents Parents And Children Parenting Children Two Faced

Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates

Source: The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons and an Unlikely Road to Manhood

“My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.”

Shows Kids School Parent Black Clothes Sticks Giants Vegetarian Sandwiches Tofu Celery

Author:Aisha Tyler

“My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.”

Mother Father Parent Rights Movement Students Workers Active Civil Rights Secretary Committees Civil Rights Movement Panthers Coordinating Sncc

Author:Yaya DaCosta

“My parents were very artistic, but busy.”

Parent Busy Artistic

Author:Katey Sagal

“My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.”

Done Parent Firm Homework

Author:Chelsea Clinton

“My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.”

Sports Parent Loving Someone

Author:Nadia Comaneci

“My parents were very Old World. They come from Brooklyn, which is the heart of the Old World. Their values in life are God and carpeting.”

World Heart Values Parent Identity Brooklyn Old World Value Of Life Cultural Identity

Author:Woody Allen

“My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.”

Kind Would Be Able Parent Talent Ridiculous Encouraging Accountants

Author:Grace Slick

“My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.”

Littles Parent Accepting Patient Pretentious Snobbery

Author:Matthew Specktor

“My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.”

Children Facts Parent Army Hated

Author:Barry Humphries

“My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.”

Want Needs Felt Parent Poor Growing Up Growing Deprivation Sensory Deprivation Family Growing Up

Author:George J. Mitchell

“My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.”

Humor Funny Parent Streets Crosses Excited Protective

Author:Emo Philips

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