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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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