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“I think anybody over 30 plays parents because it happens in your thirties and so that's kind of a natural progression. But I'm definitely drawn to it. It's probably the most intense, passionate thing that happens to you as you get older.”

Thinking Kind Play Happens Parent Natural Passionate Intense Progression

Author:Jodie Foster

“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'”

Thinking Wells Kind Children Guy Parent Interest Loses Five Brother Pressure Load Eldest

Author:Chris O'Dowd

“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

“My parents were kind of like me in that they had tons and tons of weird, amazing stuff.”

Kind Stuff Parent Like Me

Author:Jaron Lanier

“Who knows what kind of life I might have had had I not been fortunate enough to have the parents I've had.”

Knows Kind Enough Might Parent Fortunate

Author:James MacArthur

“I'm the kind of parent who asks my kids questions like, 'What would be your ideal thing to do in the summer?'”

Kind Would Be Kids Asks Parent Summer Ideals Things To Do

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I wanted to be on my own and get out of the house. We were the kind of kids that - we - obeyed our parents. If they said no, you don't ask why.”

Ifs Kind Said Kids Wanted Asks House Parent My Own They Said

Author:Janet Jackson

“When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.”

Writing Years Kind Parent Five Magic Casts Five Years Chests Spells Five Year Olds

Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer

“I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.”

Way Kind Children Kids Literature Parent Areas Towns Library Locals My Way

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Children need directing and teaching what is right in a kind, affectionate manner How often we see parents demand obedience, good behavior, kind words, pleasant looks, a sweet voice and a bright eye from a child or children when they themselves are full of bitterness and scolding! How inconsistent and unreasonable this is!”

“Forgiveness multiplies and melts rigid postures. Try again and again with self forgiveness. Be the kind parent to yourself you may not have had.”

Trying Kind May Self Parent Again And Again Negativity Try Again Posture Self Forgiveness

Author:Sark

“Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy's Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.”

“As you get older, it's important to have goals. When you're a kid you have them, but other people can set them for you, such as your parents, your school... so, as you get older it's nice to have your own goals, which don't have to do with being more famous, or being in bigger movies, or making more money. Those things kind of corrupt your soul.”

People Kind Important Soul Kids School Parent Goal Nice Bigger Your Soul More Money

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.”

People Want Needs Kind Pain Artist Turns Parent Raised Angst

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Even if you're not a parent, you have parents and you've been in those situations where there's a certain kind of goodbye - nothing this extreme exists, but I think that's what everyone holds onto, that common denominator that runs through this that everyone can understand.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Running Certain Parent Common Situation Extremes Goodbye Common Denominator

Author:Jonathan Nolan

“I'm kind of a disciplined person but I don't take anything too seriously. And I think a lot of that had to do with the raising my parents gave me and my sister - Veronica Cartwright, who's an actress in her own right.”

Thinking Kind Persons Parent Discipline Actresses My Sister

Author:Angela Cartwright

“My dad's cool with that kind of stuff. He always wanted me to do my best. I'm quite dyslexic in school. My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own. My parents never really lecture me.”

Kind Wanted School Stuff Parent My Own Figures Dad Let Me My Dad Lectures Dyslexic

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying. The way parents love their kids, the way you love a puppy or chocolate ice cream or home or your favorite book or your sister. Or your uncle. There's those kinds of love and then there's the other kind. The falling kind.”

“The kind of hero worship you have, when a parent is lost early and you don't know all their faults and misgivings, is a very strong influence.”

Knows Kind Lost Strong Parent Influence Hero Worship Faults Very Strong Hero Worship Misgivings Worship You

Author:Keri Russell

“My parents read to me a lot as a kid, and I started writing very early, probably spurred on by Aesop's fables. Then they gave me The Lord of the Rings way too early for me to fully understand what I was reading, which was actually kind of cool. It was almost better - comprehension's overrated when you're reading.”

Way Writing Kind Kids Reading Parent Lord Rings Comprehension Fables Overrated

Author:Jeff VanderMeer

“My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.”

Kind Enough Parent Hours Talking

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Bigs Wanted Stuff Parent Cities Lord Comedy Fans Dad Jazz My Dad Lakes Salt Hipster Beatnik Salt Lake City

Author:Judd Apatow

“The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology poets often overreach themselves, inflicting protective distortions on their work - as parents in old Central Europe often deliberately maimed their sons to save them from compulsory military service.”

Writing Kind Two Different Parent Military Son Poet Europe Reactions Different Kinds Protective Distortion Anthology Compulsory Military Service

Author:Laura Riding

“My young love said to me,'My brothers won't mind, And my parents won't slight you for your lack of kind.' Then she stepped away from me, and this she did say, 'It will not be long, love, till our wedding day.”

Mind Kind Long Said Young Parent Brother My Brother Young Love Wedding Day Our Wedding Long Love

Author:Padraic Colum

“The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.”

People Kind Children Care Parent Teacher Special Advise Librarian Children And Parents

Author:Julie Andrews

“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.”

People Thinking Mind Kind May Children Stills Ideas Past Turns Parent Generations Danger Concepts Prejudice Our Children Careful Peculiar Seals Past Generations

Author:Brock Chisholm

“As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.”

World Way Years Kind Children Helping Use Reality Parent Goal Can Do Deals Knowing Shapes Concerned Our Children Alternatives Mask Crucial Suggestions Urgent Using Words

Author:Betty Edwards

“We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.”

Kind Sometimes Fighting Parent Technology Computer These Days Tunes Frustrated Negotiation

Author:Wade Guyton

“You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I came from some kind of horrible, hysterical circumstances. That's not true. My family, my nuclear family, was actually very close. My mom and dad were great parents and they encouraged a real rich, creative life for me and my brothers. My extended family, like every family, has some darkness, and some violence of some kind, emotional or otherwise, in their past.”

“Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.”

“As long as we, again, kind of keep earning the sequels with material and I'm confident Mike can, I'm in. You know I always want to do those. But I also want to keep going in some of the direction as Meet the Parents has.”

Knows Want Kind Long Parent Materials Keep Going Earning Mike Sequels

Author:Jay Roach

“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

“Being kind is the most important thing Ive ever been taught. Thats what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.”

People Kind Important Parent Taught Ambition Important Things Be Kind Aspire Cornerstones

Author:Rafe Spall

“I love all kinds of movies. I love a really good comedy and not the cheesy ones. My parents hate this, but I love horror films. Those are my favorite, and of course, dramatic roles. Im really drawn to those as well. All different genres.”

Wells Kind Different Film Hate Courses Parent Roles Comedy Horror My Favorite All Kinds Genre Dramatic Cheesy Horror Film Different Genres

Author:Liana Liberato

“I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.”

Thinking Kind Father Parent Son Becoming Father Son Father Son Relationship

Author:Francois Arnaud

“Obviously, you want to teach your child between right and wrong, respect and being kind to others, whether it's their sisters or parents. You try to teach them by example, talk to them and explain certain situations. But there's also a time to put them in time out or let them know they've made a mistake and try to learn from it.”

Knows Want Trying Kind Children Made Certain Parent Mistake Situation Teach Example Our Children Your Children Be Kind Made A Mistake Be Kind To Others

Author:Eli Manning

“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

“Parents needs to spend more time with who they're trusting their kids with. That's one of the nuggets going forward. Find out who these coaches are. Figure out their environment and what kind of problems they have, and see if you want your child involved with that.”

Ifs Want Needs Kind Children Problem Kids Parent Environment Figures Involved Our Children Coaches Your Children More Time Nuggets

Author:Ray Lewis

“It's very hard to describe to people sometimes the way I grew up, because it wasn't like my parents were irresponsible. They weren't necessarily reckless, but they were bringing all types of energy into the house, all kinds of people.”

People Way Kind Sometimes Hard House Energy Parent Grew Type Grew Up All Kinds Reckless Irresponsible

Author:Courtney Love

“There are only two kinds of parents. Those who think their offspring can do nothing wrong, and those who think they can do nothing right.”

Thinking Kind Two Parent Can Do Offspring

Book:The End of My Career

Source: The End of My Career

“The kind of response I hope for when I write my novels for children: to give them a chance to recognize something of their own feelings -- about themselves, their parents, their friends -- and their own situation as a kind of subject race, always at the mercy of the adults who mostly run their lives for them.”

Giving Writing Kind Children Feelings Running Parent Chance Race Situation Novel Subjects Adults Mercy Response

Author:Nina Bawden

“Throughout my childhood, my parents dropped me off at a multitude of therapists' offices in hopes that I'd avoid growing up to be the kind of asshole who writes books about them. Also because it was sometimes easier than finding a nanny.”

Writing Kind Book Sometimes Parent Growing Up Growing Childhood Easier Office Findings Therapy Multitudes Therapists Nannies

Book:I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

Source: I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

“As a child, I probably knew phrases that other children didn't known, like "pitocin drip" or "myocardial infarction." Some kind of knowledge was always in the air. My parents would always talk about science at the dinner table, saying something about this patient or some other patient. So I guess for a nanosecond in early high school, I thought about going into medicine.”

Kind Children School Parent Known Air High School Tables Medicine Patient Dinner Phrases Dinner Table

Author:M. Night Shyamalan

“No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.”

“I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.”

Kind Littles Play Whole Action Fun Bits Parent Figures Little Bit Odd Surreal Dolls Whole Family Action Figures

Author:Juliet Landau

“It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.”

Kind House Parent Height Mystic Deserted Moors

Author:Joanne Froggatt

“When I was six years old, my parents took me to this farmers' market with a petting zoo. They put me on a pony and, for some reason, it took off at a run and they had to chase it down. They tell me it was kind of traumatic.”

Years Kind Reason Running Parent Six Farmers Zoos Ponies Six Year Olds Farmers Markets

Author:David Schwimmer

“My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.”

People Wells Kind States Parent Successful Generations Economic Products Constant Insecurity My Sister Successful People Great Depression Insecurity And Fear

Author:Ben Stein

“We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.”

Thinking Knows Kind Children Ideas Problem Wish Parent Interest Existence Information Solutions Access Censorship Upbringing

Author:Judith Krug

“We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,' or 'female progenitors,' or any other descriptive title, but not profane the sacred name of mother!”

Should Kind Law Mother Names Parent Perfect Female Sacred Titles Profane

Book:The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: The Rosary: Easyread Comfort Edition

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