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“My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.”

Author:Jack Black

“My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.”

Feels Made Home School Games Sports Parent Chess Welcome Guilty Instance Supportive Rivals

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.”

Way Has Beens Parent Growing Up Growing Supportive

Author:Lena Dunham

“My parents were very traditional Nigerians who wanted doctor, lawyer, teacher [children], but when I actually had a dream and I presented the dream to them, they were 100 percent supportive.”

Children Dream Wanted Parent Teacher Percent Doctors Lawyer Traditional Supportive

Author:Chukwudi Iwuji

“My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.”

Ifs World Used Mother Father Parent Rage Used To Be Insecurity Jealous Comes And Goes Protectiveness Points In Life Get Jealous

Author:Felicity Kendal

“My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.”

Wells Parent Reader Educated Sophisticated Humanistic

Author:Patti Smith

“My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.”

Way Wells House Parent Crazy Huge Majority Workers Mum Staff Extravagant Housework Nannies

Author:Petra Stunt

“My parents were very young when they had me. They were still growing up and learning themselves. They did the best they could, but my mom and dad split up when I was little... So that kind of made me stronger.”

Kind Littles Made Stills Young Parent Growing Up Growing Mom Dad Stronger My Mom Splits Mom And Dad

Author:Justin Bieber

“My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.”

Parent Fans Car Musical Sondheim

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“My parents were workers. My mom, especially in my high school years, was a stock clerk at Kmart... My dad was a bartender that worked banquets.”

Parent Workers

Author:Marco Rubio

“My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.”

People Mean Wanted Mother Parent Term Class Mom Needed Dad My Dad Financial Folks My Mom Significant Working Class Maids Clerks Bartender Walmart Cashiers

Author:Marco Rubio

“My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.”

Firsts Remember Parent Towns Length Hospitals Hospitality Mississippi Memphis Charleston

Author:Morgan Freeman

“My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.”

People Parent New York Worried Memorable Peculiar Dolls

Author:Steven Morrissey

“My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.”

Home Young Parent Drink Let Me

Author:Jessica Alba

“My parents weren't drawn to the United States by any specific dream, just a chance for something different. Even then, they understood that American life is unbounded promise and hypocrisy, faith and greed, new spectrums of joy and self-doubt, freedom enabled by enslavement. All of these things at once.”

American Dream

Author:Hua Hsu

Source: Stay True

“My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.”

Years Art Country Beautiful Culture Parent Artistic Mexico Beautiful Things Art And Culture

Author:Carlos Slim

“My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.”

People Parent Successful Happy People

Author:Jack Wagner

“My parents weren't in the arts, but we grew up in Balmain, which at that time was an artistic, bohemian suburb of Sydney. It's a lot more gentrified now. It was very working class, pubs on every corner because it's right by the water so a lot of the guys on the ships and the boats used to go and drink there. It's very posh now.”

Art Used Guy Parent Water Class Grew Drink Grew Up Corners Ships Boat Artistic Working Class Suburbs Pubs Sydney Bohemian Posh

Author:Rose Byrne

“My parents weren't involved in show business but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house.”

Shows Film House Parent Watches Involved Show Me Show Business

Author:Alden Ehrenreich

“My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.”

World Mother Left Parent This World Dad Married My Dad Steady Grandparent

Author:Alicia Keys

“My parents will be sad for a while, and they may even blame themselves, the way they do now. Eventually they'll come to peace with my decision. I hope they'll realize I'm finally at peace.”

Way May Parent Realizing Decision Blame

Author:Julie Anne Peters

“My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.”

Children Parent

Author:Shalom Harlow

“My parents wondered what to do with this insufferable show-off. They chose acting for me and I'm very grateful I can still make a living from it.”

Stills I Can Shows Parent Acting Grateful Showing Off Insufferable

Author:Honeysuckle Weeks

“My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.”

Want Giving Lasts Parent Gun Let Me Give Me Twelve Motorcycle Gauges

Author:Scott Thompson

“My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.”

Differences Work Family Parents Ethic

Author:Harvey Pekar

Source: The Quitter

“My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.”

Children Hard Parent Four College Our Children Lots Of Money

Author:Lou Gerstner

“My parents worked really hard at communicating other values they felt were important, such as integrity, courage, humility, treating others with dignity and respect, and having a thirst for knowledge.”

Important Hard Values Felt Parent Humility Integrity Dignity Communicate Thirst Dignity And Respect Treating Others Thirst For Knowledge

Author:Charles Koch

“My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.”

Together Mother Father Parent Our Lives Honest Happenings Dinner Recipes Attorney

Author:Ryan Seacrest

“My parents would always say, 'It doesnt' matter if it's a guy picking up the garbage or the President of the United States, treat everybody as you would want to be treated.”

Ifs Want Matter States America Guy Sports Parent President United United States Treats Treated Garbage

Author:Dan Marino

Source: Marino: on the record

“My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him.”

Men Love Should Christian Hate Parent White Duty White Man

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

Source: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr

“My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.”

Parent Crosses Foreheads

Author:Vincent Nichols

“My parents would frisk me before family events, and find the book, and lock it in the car. And then be disappointed where, somewhere at the event, I would find a book and sit under a table where nobody could get me and go back into book land.”

Book Parent Land Car Events Tables Disappointed Locks

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then the book would be hidden inside some pocket or other and as soon as whatever it was got under way I'd be found in a corner. That was who I was...that was what I did. I was the kid with the book.”

Ifs Way Book Would Be Kids Found Parent Events Corners Bars Pockets Funeral Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.”

Ifs Parent Brother Doctors Lawyer My Brother

Author:Gabriel Macht

“My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed.”

Use School Next Parent Water Morning Fire Bed Gun Shock Cattle Boiling Boiling Water

Author:Jackson Rathbone

“My parents would make huge crops of sometimes 55 to 60 bales of cotton. Being from a big family where there were 20 children, it wasn't too hard to pick that much cotton. But my father, year after year, didn't get too much money and I remember he just kept going.”

Years Children Sometimes Hard Bigs Remember Father Parent Too Much Huge Picks Crops Cotton Big Families

Author:Fannie Lou Hamer

“My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.”

Language Parents German

Author:Alex Bosworth

Source: Chip Chip Chaw!

“My parents would tell us to go outside and play or to do creative stuff, but television was very limited. So we used our own creativity to entertain ourselves. We were out in the woods a lot making huts and playing horses.”

Play Used Stuff Parent Creativity Creative Television Horse Woods Huts

Author:Jan Brett

“My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general sense than being good parents for me. They wanted to appear normal; respectable and responsible. But they weren’t prepared to acknowledge my individual needs.”

Psychology Parenting Parents Respectable Acknowledgement Special Needs Good Parents Individual Needs

Author:Joss Sheldon

Source: The Little Voice

“My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape of '90s grunge - if you got it now, you would think it was the 'Singles' soundtrack.”

Ifs Thinking Strong Parent Discipline Conviction Bars Very Strong Tape Singles Soundtracks Grunge Bar Mitzvah Mitzvah

Author:Adam Pally

“My parents' deportation gave me so much strength to keep on moving forward, because any type of failure - whether in school or with jobs or rejection from a casting office - nothing could be as bad as what I had already gone through. Nothing could be worse than coming home expecting to see your loving parents and them not being there.”

Home School Moving Parent Office Moving Forward Rejection Coming Home Expecting Keep Moving Being There Loving Parents

Author:Diane Guerrero

“My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.”

Way Pain Left Parent Acting Sadness Humour Divorce My Way Parents Divorce

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“My parents' divorce settlement involved a bar tab.”

Parent Involved Divorce Bars Settlement Parents Divorce

Author:Christopher Titus

“My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.”

Parent Simple Generations Fats

Author:Arabella Weir

“My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.”

Long Parent Tough Ideals Great Idea Happy Marriage

Author:Olivia Williams

“My parents' loss was compensated by the birth of my son Aryan and daughter Suhana. I believe they're my parents. In comparison to them, I behave childishly. My 13-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son behave like my mother and father. They're not my weakness. I love them a lot and give them a lot. I'll give them so much that by the time they are adults they wouldn't want anything.”

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Author:Shahrukh Khan

“My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.”

Parent Brother Arguing My Brother Splits Delighted Parents Marriage Always Arguing

Author:Gail Porter

“My parents' names were Florian and Mabel Smith. My mother's maiden name was Dersam. They were of German heritage and were part of a family community with my grandparents and uncles and relatives. I was an only child.”

Children Mother Names Parent Community Heritage Uncles Grandparent Maidens Only Child Maiden Names

Author:Paul Smith

“My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.”

People Thinking Way Certain Parent Class Working Class Narrow-minded

Author:Toby Stephens

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