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“I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.”

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Author:Samantha Morton

“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?”

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

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“My parents sacrificed so much for all of us. It makes me want to give back to them by being the best I can be.”

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Author:Diana Lopez

“You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.”

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Author:Adepero Oduye

“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.”

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Author:Oscar Pistorius

“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.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

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

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Author:Lily Rabe

“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.”

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Author:Nicole Richie

“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.”

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Author:Amity Shlaes

“I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.”

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Author:Cristina Saralegui

“People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.”

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Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.”

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Author:Brit Marling

“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.”

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Author:St. Vincent

“When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't want to be 'mumsy,' but I'm like, 'Were you always like that or... what happened?”

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Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.”

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Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“We have this obsession with broken homes. Everyone wants to find a problem with it, but not me. I had great homes. Both my parents remarried and I got more people to learn from!”

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Author:JJ Feild

“My parents always told me that you always want to be the worst of the best. If you are the best, you never learn.”

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Author:Toni Trucks

“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.”

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Author:Alanna Ubach

“I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.”

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Author:Linda Vester

“I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.”

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Author:Devon Werkheiser

“Many toxic parents compare one sibling unfavorably with another to make the target child feel that he's not doing enough to gain parental affection. This motivates the child to do whatever the parents want in order to regain their favor. This divide-and-conquer technique is often unleashed against children who become a little too independent, threatening the balance of the family system.”