“I knew from a young age that I wanted to be an actor. I never even thought about other careers. The acting field is certainly not the path many Indian parents encourage their children to take, but mine were very supportive. They wanted me to have an education, but understood that this is what I wanted to do.” ChildrenAgeWantedYoungActorsParentActingCareersPathFieldsMinesUnderstoodIndianSupportiveYoung Age Author:Archie Panjabi
“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.” IfsWorldHardWould BeKidsWantedSchoolJobsAmericaFeltParentChanceClassCareersGrowing UpGrowingMiddleMiddle ClassGood School Author:Al Franken
“My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.” SchoolParentCareersDadHigh SchoolMy DadGraduatesLots Of MoneyPrintingSalesmanWorking LifeGraduating High School Author:Al Franken
“My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.” PeopleWayChildrenArtFactsParentCareersTaughtRaisesPassionateFamily Life Author:Olivia Williams
“My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.” RealJobsStuffParentRoomsCareersAmountPaidTennisDishesCleaningReal JobsSmall Amounts Author:Caroline Wozniacki
“I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.” ThinkingYearsMadeHardSchoolLawChoicesThreeParentDecisionHalfCareersConsciousDecidedUniversityOccupationHarshHalf A YearSchool DaysCareers Choices Author:Lee Kuan Yew
“Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might tie this experience to your childhood, your relationship with your parents, people you have loved or love now or even your career. How is this experience related to who you would like to become, who you have been in the past, or who you are now?.” PeopleWantWritingHas BeensFeelingsMightPastNextParentEmotionCareersFourChildhoodLetting GoWho You AreUpsetYour ChildrenTiesRelatedOur RelationshipI Want You Author:James W. Pennebaker
“Treat your career like a bad boyfriend... Your career wont take care of you. It won't call you back or introduce you to its parents. Your career will openly flirt with other people while you are around... You have to care about your work, but not about the result. You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksCareParentResultsCareersTreatsTake CareGood PeopleIntroducingFlirtingBad BoyBad Boyfriend Author:Amy Poehler
“I used to scream at everybody at the beginning of my career. I'd get really emotional. I'd project all my issues about my parents and safety onto the executives, so every conversation where they gave a note was life or death and you don't love me.” UsedParentCareersIssuesEmotionalConversationProjectsSafetyNotesExecutivesScreamGet RealLife Or DeathYou Don't Love Me Author:Judd Apatow
“The irony of primary parent laws is that on the one hand feminists were arguing for women's equal rights to jointly-created career assets that emanated from the male financial womb, but arguing against men's equal rights to jointly-created children that emanated from the woman's child-bearing womb.” MenChildrenHandsLawParentCareersRightsEqualMalesFinancialFeministArguingPrimariesIronyAssetsWombEqual Rights Author:Warren Farrell
“I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.” FirstsWould BeParentCareersStandardsAmbitious Author:Mindy Kaling
“It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.” LongParentActingCompanyCareersPlayerFeetLandStageIndiaEnglandPerformingCourtesyUp And Down Author:Felicity Kendal
“I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.” ChoicesGirlOpportunityParentRealizingCareersMomReally GreatGreat Parents Author:Ally Condie
“My parents are both definitely supportive of my career.They are both big fans of rap. They are really what influenced me.” BigsParentCareersFansRapSupportive Author:Joey Badass
“The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.” MenGivingEnoughMotherTurnsFatherParentWomenNaturalCareersMinesTaughtLimitsStandardsEthicsCommitmentResourcesIncreaseGenderDestructiveFemininePacksEarningWagesWork EthicIncentivesNatural ResourcesManlyTaught UsDouble Standard Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“I had a good, sound upbringing with sensible people around me. I was brought up by intelligent parents. My mother always said to me, "You've got to work at your career and you've got to be good at it. Okay, you've had a bit of success but that's not longevity. You've got to really work for a long time."” PeopleLongSaidMotherBitsParentSoundCareersLong TimeOkayIntelligentBe GoodSensibleLongevityUpbringing Author:Olivia Newton-John
“I was lucky with my parents, for my mom and my dad particularly, much more than my mom, who was very compassionate and loving to everyone. And then, as I got into my career, I started and other people started to realize that I was good at it.” PeopleParentRealizingCareersMomDadLuckyMy DadMy MomCompassionate Author:Shep Gordon
“I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.” WantWellsRealityActorsParentCareersFantasyGrowing UpGrowingFansSittingScream Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I was blessed throughout my entire career. I had people rooting for me. It started with my parents, but it extended to almost every teacher that I had. Even when I was a young lawyer, there were other women and men in the firm who took me under their wing.” PeopleMenYoungParentCareersTeacherMen And WomenBlessedWingsLawyerFirm Author:Michelle Obama
“Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.” PhilosophyAgeYoungCoursesParentCareersShareFortunateEncountersHappy LifeYoung Age Author:Keke Palmer
“You can make changes in your life and you can say, "I'm going to be a better parent next year than I am right now," or, "I'm going to take an extra step in my career and not just be satisfied where I am." So it has a lot to do with our will, but also we have to work as well.” YearsWellsNextParentStepsCareersRight NowSatisfiedExtrasMaking ChangesNext Year Author:Joel Osteen
“At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three young children, I had to start to plan my future after dance even though I dreaded about.” YearsChildrenAgeLastsYoungThreeParentCareersPlansI RealizedBalletMy FutureYoung Children Author:Li Cunxin
“Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed."” ChildrenLongParentCareersPerformancesMy ChildrenDisappointedTheatrical Author:Daniel Handler
“I did not win and in fact I was called into the principal's office for a consultation with my parents. But that was the beginning of my literary career.” FactsWinningParentCareersOfficePrincipalConsultation Author:William Joyce
“I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.” IfsKnowsArtIdeasShowsParentCareersBabyShow BusinessBoomersBaby Boomer Author:Jason Sudeikis
“Perhaps being a parent has changed career more in that you ask yourself how long you'll be away from home. My eldest child is approaching school age so that becomes more important. They're less portable.” ChildrenLongImportantHomeAgeSchoolAsksParentCareersChangedBeing A ParentAway From HomeEldestEldest Child Author:Cate Blanchett
“You know, unfortunately divorce it happens in Kansas as much as it does in Hollywood. And, you know, women having to start over at 40, you know, for the first time in their life having to find a career and being a single parent and having to date. You know, all of those things happen everywhere in the world. It's not just Los Angeles. So I would defend the fact that there are, you know, there are other reasons to watch than just to get a laugh.” KnowsWorldFirstsDoeReasonFactsHappensParentCareersWatchesLaughingFirst TimeHollywoodDivorceThings HappenLos AngelesStarting OverKansasSingle ParentBeing A Single Parent Author:Debra Messing
“As I have been paving my career as a filmmaker my parents have been there for me every step of the way. They have believed in my dreams despite how steep the mountain has been.” WayHas BeensDreamParentStepsCareersMountainDespiteFilmmakerEvery StepSteepPaving Author:Aurora Guerrero