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“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.”

Children Age Wanted Young Actors Parent Acting Careers Path Fields Mines Understood Indian Supportive Young Age

Author:Archie Panjabi

“The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.”

Fall Parent Generations Changed India West Categories 1960s

Author:Archie Panjabi

“Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?”

People Littles Two War Kids Three Bits Parent Memories Poor Wife Thousand Little Bit Died Soldier Zero Entitled Poor People Ground Zero

Author:Carl Paladino

“No matter when you were born or where, puberty is the same. It's the same for your parents as it is for you - what's happening in your body dictates everything.”

Matter Body Parent Born Happenings Your Body Puberty

Author:Francine Pascal

“I've never done a blind date but my parents met on a blind date.”

Done Parent Mets Blind Blind Date

Author:Hunter Parrish

“This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.”

Thinking Important Kids Night Parent Eating Sitting Tables Kitchen End Times Spend Time Sitting Around

Author:Jacques Pepin

“I'm lucky to have parents who used to be bodybuilders! They help me keep fit by going to the gym and training with me. I'm also addicted to Cardio Barre classes and hiking.”

Helping Used Parent Class Fit Lucky Training Used To Be Help Me Gym Hiking Cardio Bodybuilder Cardiovascular Exercise

Author:Janel Parrish

“I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.”

Years Moments Parent Five Mom My Mom Hips Five Years

Author:Kay Panabaker

“Children, a lot of times, can't make their parents wrong because they have to live with them, because they have to love them. And when you're young, you can't get on your Big Wheel and go down to the Best Western. You've got to live there and you've got to figure it out.”

Children Bigs Young Parent Figures Western Wheels

Author:Lana Parrilla

“My parents have been together for 65 years. They're both really stubborn. They're not quitters.”

Years Has Beens Together Parent Stubborn Quitter

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.”

Want Giving Feels Play Fall Parent Nice Tree Cry Brother Give Me Sorry Legs Climbs Scope Very Nice Your Brother Do Whatever You Want Prosthetics Motorbike

Author:Oscar Pistorius

“My parents don't really watch movies at all.”

Parent Watches Watch Movie

Author:Teresa Palmer

“I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.”

Thinking Knows Want Stills Parent Successful Nice Achieve Proud Becoming Successful Proud Of Me

Author:Teresa Palmer

“I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.”

Writing Has Beens Kids School Parent Growing Up Growing Kids Growing Up

Author:Tom Perrotta

“My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.”

Knows Children Play America Parent Cities Particular Drama Setting Versions Settings Farms Children And Parents

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I know what's it's like to grow up with ADHD and how important it is for parents, caregivers and patients, to have access to accurate information.”

Knows Important Grows Parent Growing Up Information Patient Access Accurate Adhd Caregivers Accurate Information

Author:Ty Pennington

“There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.”

Body Certain Left Parent Doors Feet Baby Your Body Closing Multitasking

Author:Amy Ryan

“Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.”

Government School Jobs Parent College High School Finishing Adamant Government Jobs

Author:Chance the Rapper

“Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.”

Enough Parent Brain Risk Teenager Uncertain Weeping Evaluate Skip Uncertain Future Volvo

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I feel like I'm really blessed and lucky that I have a very good social life outside of the gym, and I have a really amazing family. My parents are so supportive. I have a younger brother and two younger sisters, and they're really awesome. So I feel like I get the best of both worlds.”

“I believe that it is our human right to be parents and women. And there's no contradiction between feminism, which means women should have all that they are entitled to, all that they can do, all the opportunities that they can take advantage of they should have.”

Should Believe Humans Mean Opportunity I Believe Parent Can Do Feminism Advantage Should Have Contradiction Entitled

Author:Anne Roiphe

“Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.”

Ifs Parent Loses Supportive Supportive Parents

Author:Anthony Rapp

“I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.”

States Parent Born United United States Grew Citizens Grew Up Britain Egypt American Citizens Seventeen Great Britain Egyptian Malaysia Kuwait

Book:Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America

Source: Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America

“This is what happens when you are on the wrong side of 40. Young adults, who could be your children, are now working with you. I was playing their parents or mentor. I started to think: Oh, I am not part of that group any more.”

Thinking Children Happens Young Parent Sides Groups Adults Our Children Young Adult Your Children Mentor

Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.”

People Philosophy Certain Belief Parent Millions Media Grew Grew Up Yeah Threat Cult Exposure Pragmatic Belief Systems Scientology

Author:Giovanni Ribisi

“But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.”

Mean Made Culture Courses Individual Given Process Parent Quality Steps Groups Civilization Independent Division Cellular

Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism

Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism

“For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.”

Home Kids Life Is Girl Parent Boys Drug Safety Clubs Tragic Sanity Sanctuary Boy And Girl Oasis Home Life

Author:Judge Reinhold

“You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.”

People Want Feels Parent Hiring

Author:Lily Rabe

“For a long time I was cautious of working with my parents because I wanted to feel separate from them in the community. Now there's no more wasting time.”

Feels Long Wanted Parent Community Long Time Wasting Time Cautious

Author:Lily Rabe

“Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.”

States America Parent United United States Sacrifice Accomplish United States Of America

Author:Marco Rubio

“When my husband came to my parents' house for the first time, he asked, 'Why is everyone screaming? Why are they so angry?' I said, 'No one's angry. This is just how we communicate.”

Firsts Said House Parent Husband First Time Angry Communicate My Husband

Author:Melissa Rauch

“I didn't spend much time with my parents when I was growing up.”

Parent Growing Up Growing

Author:Michael Reagan

“I would say my biggest mentor has been my father because he always has been. Actually both of my parents have always been ones to encourage me to be myself and stay true to myself and not fall into what other people want me to do.”

People Want Has Beens Fall Father Parent Want Me Mentor Stay True True To Myself

Author:Nicole Richie

“I was the one that put myself in rehab. I was the one that went to my parents and said, you know, 'I have a problem and I need to take care of it.'”

Knows Needs Said Problem Care Parent Take Care Rehab

Author:Nicole Richie

“I'm a diligent person, and that came directly from having hardworking parents.”

Persons Parent Diligent Hardworking

Author:Rebecca Romijn

“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...”

Long Has Beens Ends Reason Mother Parent Difficult Interest Successful Nice Happened Lucky Prove Long Time The End Of The Day Mum Long Time Ago Prove Myself Your Mum

Author:Stuart Rose

“Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.”

Ifs Believe Might Fun Parent Capacity Workers

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.”

Needs Wells Children Important Care Mother Father Bits Parent Aging Bridges Parks Spouse Infrastructure Tunnels Broadband Aging Parents

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for parents in need. So on weekends, I look forward to uninterrupted time with my family.”

Needs Looks Play Kids School Parent Week Baby Commitment My Family Weekend Consumed Gears Nonprofits Play Dates

Author:Jessica Seinfeld

“Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.”

Next Parent Break Rights Generations Happened Youth Involved Patterns Civil Rights Accustomed Next Generation Stood Up

Author:Octavia Spencer

“I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a café.”

I Can Home Remember Moving Night Lost Parent Six Flood Looking Back Day And Night Cafes Adelaide

Author:Samantha Stosur

“I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.”

Years Play Wanted Remember Parent

Author:Tammin Sursok

“I grew up listening to most of my parents' music, like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.”

Stuff Parent Listening Grew Grew Up Abba

Author:Tammin Sursok

“I never experienced any feelings of closeness and caring from my parents.”

Feelings Parent Caring Closeness

Author:Alan Sugar

“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.”

Men Writing Character Mother Father Parent Nice Reader Gentle Supportive Colorful Nice Man

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“We had many books and pictures... my parents' way of life doubtless left a lasting impression on me. They created an atmosphere in which a certain kind of freedom could exist. This may well account for my seeking a related sense of liberty as I grew up.”

Way Wells Kind May Book Certain Left Parent Liberty Grew Grew Up Accounts Seeking Impression Atmosphere Related Lasting Lasting Impressions

Book:Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

Source: Alfred Stieglitz: an American seer

“With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.”

Want Writing Children Hands Able School Parent Study Special Demand Tests Ears My Children Shakes Statistics Contracts Public School Accounting Calculus Preps Special Education

Author:Amity Shlaes

“I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.”

Parent Car Grew Grew Up Neighbor Hello

Author:Amy Sherman-Palladino

“I think I'm a global citizen. My parents came from China, were educated in France and emigrated to the United States. And I think that opened up my mind to be able to live and work anywhere.”

Thinking Mind States Able Parent United United States Citizens China Educated France Global Citizen

Author:Anna Sui

“My own parents were touchy-feely.”

Parent My Own Touchy

Author:Ben Stiller

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