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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

“Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?”

People Ifs Thinking Want Parent Minutes Pure Including Dinner Tonight Unimportant Pure Love Menus Loving Parents

Book:Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss

Source: Love Yourself Thin: The Revolutionary Spiritual Approach to Weight Loss

“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

“I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.”

Thinking Men Stills Two Parent Worry He Man Depends Politician Income Pins Breadwinner

Author:Frances O'Grady

“You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.”

Thinking Knows World Parent Lucky Worthy Oscars Best Parents

Author:Kaitlin Olson

“It is pretty amazing. My parents, who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. - who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.”

Thinking Dream Kids Parent Team Epitome Nicaragua

Author:Diana Lopez

“You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.”

Ifs Thinking Film Parent Walks Effects Wind Huge Adults Eight Dinner Brilliant Kurosawa

Author:Ann Patchett

“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 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

“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 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

“Kids still can be said to live in their own little world. Even if their parents are helicoptering around them, assigning play dates and so forth, I think they're still living in some sense of their own little perceptual worlds.”

Ifs Thinking World Littles Said Stills Play Kids Parent Play Dates

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“My parents were divorcing, and I think at certain times of your life you do attract the wrong type of person. You don't know any better, and you don't know how you'd like to be treated.”

Thinking Knows Persons Certain Parent Know How Type Treated Time Of Your Life

Author:Lisa Snowdon

“I think women look for that quality in a man of being a good dad whether they're immediately wanting to be a parent or not.”

Thinking Men Looks Parent Quality Dad Good Dad

Author:Emily VanCamp

“I think my parents gave me a love of learning; from there you set out on your own path.”

Thinking Parent Path Love Of Learning

Author:Gore Verbinski

“Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But I think it's really important that children don't feel their parents' emotional lives depend on their success.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Looks Children Important Home Mother Asks Parent Emotional Depends Picks Fulfilled Stay At Home Emotional Life Plath

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.”

Thinking Knows Littles Faces Father Parent Poor Taste Negative Britain Swimming Say Anything Glee Poor Taste Little Britain

Author:David Walliams

“But I think role models also start in the home with your parents.”

Thinking Home Parent Roles Models Role Models Male Role Models

Author:Dominique Wilkins

“I think you really have to become a parent to understand what you will endure to be there for your kids.”

Thinking Kids Parent Endure

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I was trying to be appreciative for the education I had, for the sacrifices my parents made. I was very interested in perfect attendance, OK, and straight A's and, you know, dean's list, because those I think were worthwhile, you know, endeavors. And it was important to spend my time in that way and become well-rounded.”

Thinking Knows Way Trying Wells Made Important Parent Perfect Sacrifice Lists My Time Endeavor Worthwhile Dean Appreciative Well Rounded Attendance

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.”

People Thinking Writing May Song Parent Sad Song

Author:Shelby Lynne

“For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that’s because my parents always treated me as an adult.”

People Thinking Knows Trying Long Kids Age Fighting Felt Parent Prove Long Time Adults Treated Peers Cocky Savvy

Author:Ezra Miller

“I've run out of mates that haven't had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I've been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.”

Thinking Feels Littles Long Doe Facts Running Able Young Bits Parent Havens Baby Little Bit Selfish Mates

Author:Nick Moran

“I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.”

Thinking Children Important Seems Sports Parent Succeed Harder Our Children Your Children End Times Spend Time

Author:Dan Marino

“I think a lot of people who want to be musicians terrify their parents because they don't have a living example of it in their families, and I did. So I always knew that it was possible.”

People Thinking Want Parent Example Musician

Author:St. Vincent

“From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in.”

Thinking Parent Memories Love Is Love You Baby Tiny Unconditional

Author:Kevin Whately

“When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.”

People Thinking Way Trying War Country Parent Sides Grew Grew Up Brighter Wrong Way Brighter Side

Author:Andy Murray

“I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.”

People Thinking Knows Years Happens Kids Mother Father Parent Understanding Rights Separation Whatever Happens

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I think because both of my parents were essentially salespeople, and Italian-Americans, I always seemed to get along with people; I had a knack of finding something to talk about.”

People Thinking Parent Findings Italian Knack Salespeople Italian American

Author:Bob Colacello

“I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.”

Thinking Giving Trying Two Wanted Girl Parent Born Boys

Author:Alex Borstein

“I think when your parents are as rebellious as mine were, it's difficult to top them. So what's the point?”

Thinking Parent Difficult Mines Rebellious

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.”

Thinking Way I Can Parent Taught Fame Handle Thanks

Author:Alessandro Del Piero

“It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Children Kids Wanted Passion Fun Parent Acting Actresses Suits Making Money

Author:Alanna Ubach

“O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet and dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.”

Thinking Men Feels May Children Home Eye Parent Wife Bravery Ashamed Scorn Absent Be A Man

Book:The Iliad of Homer

Source: The Iliad of Homer

“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.”

Thinking Years Made Hard School Law Choices Three Parent Decision Half Careers Conscious Decided University Occupation Harsh Half A Year School Days Careers Choices

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.”

Thinking Way Years Running Asks Parent Sweet Lips Tickets Sync Latex

Author:Lady Gaga

“I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.”

Thinking Littles Parent My Family Devoted

Author:Lady Gaga

“I think you inherit most of your talent from your parents, although sometimes a fabulously talented singer grows out of the union of two tone-deaf people”

People Thinking Two Sometimes Grows Parent Talent Unions Singers Tone Deaf

Author:Joely Fisher

“Parents are not the all-knowing, ideal people we would like you to think we are. We've made wrong choices before, and will again, like everyone else, .. But our mistakes are not the measure of our love for you. You are that measure, and how well you are prepared to make better choices than we have made.”

People Thinking Wells Made Choices Parent Mistake Knowing Like You Ideals Prepared Our Love Wrong Choices

Book:Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

Source: Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember

“I don't believe in playing down to children, either in life or in motion pictures. I didn't treat my own youngsters like fragile flowers, and I think no parent should.”

Thinking Should Believe Children Parent My Own Flower Treats Don't Believe Fragile Youngsters Motion Pictures

Author:Walt Disney

“I'm an only child, and I think one of the sweet things about that is that my parents are really interested in every aspect of my life.”

Thinking Children Parent Sweet Aspect Only Child Sweet Things

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I think for my parents it was like "A Boy Named Sue," the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, "Look, I knew I wasn't going to be around. So I gave you the name so that you would grow up strong enough to take the hits and fight back." So I like to believe that's why my parents gave me this stupid name.”

Thinking Trying Believe Looks Enough Guy Song Fighting Father Names Strong Grows Parent Boys Growing Up Stupid Track Cash Strong Enough Like A Boy

Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“The older ones recently saw Mr and Mrs Smith and I think they thought that was the funniest thing they'd ever seen because, of course, watching your parents fight as spies is some strange sort of childhood fantasy.”

Thinking Fighting Courses Parent Fantasy Saws Childhood Strange Spy

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Both of my parents are actually music teachers. I think I got to a certain age where I decided I'd rather be a baseball player than a musician. Now, like most kids, I regret it.”

Thinking Kids Age Certain Parent Teacher Player Regret Musician Decided Baseball I Regret Baseball Player Music Teacher

Author:Charlie Day

“I think for all the women who are working parents it's difficult to balance your work-life and your home-life. You make obvious sacrifices because you really just want to be with your family.”

Thinking Want Home Parent Difficult Sacrifice Balance Obvious Our Family Home Life Working Parents

Author:Kate Hudson

“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

“My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Children Important Home Age Young Found Parent Security Comfort Mass Aspect Tradition Who I Am Holiday Sunday Ritual Stability Schedules Crave Young Age Home For The Holidays

Author:Chloe Sevigny

“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

“I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.”

Thinking Children Self Seems Parent Differences Self Esteem Tough Concerned Assuming Western Esteem Behave Immigrants Fragility Psych Immigrant Parents

Author:Amy Chua

“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.”

People Thinking Feels Looks Care Parent Results Careers Treats Take Care Good People Introducing Flirting Bad Boy Bad Boyfriend

Author:Amy Poehler

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