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• I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Holiday, Thinking, Water

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I grew up in a very musical household. My brother had KISS and Van Halen records, but my parents loved country and show tunes, so I had all of those records when a kid. I pretty much knew exactly what I was going to do at a young age. I loved album covers, I loved listening to a record and staring at the art while listening to it. When I got older and discovered paining, drawing and PhotoShop, I was able to do both simultaneously; I enjoy making both.

  Piggy D.

  Country, Art, Brother

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• I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.

  Sandra Bullock

  Beautiful, Girl, Years

  "She's Strong, She's Sexy, She's Sandra Bullock". Interview with Anne Fletcher, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2009.

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• The last thing I ever want to do is disappoint my parents. If something ever happened to one of my parents, I'd want them to go knowing I made them proud.

  Miley Cyrus

  Knowing, Want, Proud

  "Miley Cyrus: America's Most Famous Girl Grows Up". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 29, 2009.

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• My parents would have to put the fire hose on me to get me out of bed, to go to school in the morning. They would use a cattle prod and just shock me, or throw boiling water on me, or fire a gun next to my head, to get me out of bed.

  Jackson Rathbone

  Morning, School, Gun

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm very close to my parents and we built a sailboat together when I was growing up. We're partners.

  Rex Smith

  Growing Up, Together, Partners

  "New Again: Rex Smith". Interview with Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 20, 1981.

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• When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.

  Christina Aguilera

  Running, Voice, Saws

  "Christina: Intimate Talk About a Past That Still Hurts". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. November 30, 2006.

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• I think sitting in the car with your parents and listening to music is an essential to growing up.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Growing Up, Thinking, Car

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• The nomadic lifestyle does work for a lot of working parents, but I've traveled and I've seen it, and I want to be able to go home at night and see my daughter. I want to be there for her first day of school and her school recital. Honestly, television is what offers me that.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Daughter, Home, School

  "Sarah Michelle Gellar Interview RINGER; Compares Her Return to TV to BUFFY Experience". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2011.

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• I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.

  Eric Hutchinson

  Mom, Song, Dad

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• I had the wonderful benefit of growing up with parents that not only encouraged me to follow my dreams, but supported my aspirations through school and beyond.

  Jason Graves

  Dream, Growing Up, School

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• It's magical thinking to imagine that the reason unspeakable things are being perpetrated by younger and younger people is that they've fallen under the influence of seductive, lascivious, prurient, and violent material in books, films, television. A great deal of this type of censorship has to do with absolving parents of responsibility - parents who just plop their kids in front of the television and leave them there hour upon hour.

  John Irving

  Book, Kids, Responsibility

  Interview with Suzanne Herel, www.motherjones.com. May/June 1997.

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• I started playing drums at a pretty early age because my parents were musicians. My dad was an amazing multi-instrumentalist and I can play a lot of instruments, but my dad actually played all the instruments I could play and then added another twenty five or thirty five different categories on there ...he was incredible! He got an act actually in Vegas, my parents Bobby and Phyllis Sherwood.

  Billy Sherwood

  Dad, Vegas, Play

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• It seemed to be a fundamental thing that women have something men don't, the obvious being an ability to bear children, and the resilience to hang in as parents. I don't understand why or how anyone ever pulled off the whole idea of "women are inferior".

  Joss Whedon

  Children, Men, Ideas

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• That's why school was invented - to give your parents some peace and quiet during the day.

  Michael Chabon

  School, Giving, Quiet

  "Michael Chabon’s Vinyl Draft". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September, 2012.

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• The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.

  Nicolas Cage

  Meaningful, Children, Kids

  "Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel's Magical Apprenticeship". Moviefone Interview, news1.capitalgrio.com. July 13, 2010.

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• My first car was kind of sad. My first car was when my parents had completely worn out their Toyota Corolla that they had for 16 years or something. They gave me, for my 19th birthday, this really ancient Toyota. So that was my first car. And I loved it. I thought it was amazing, and I drove it cross-country. It was not aesthetically appealing in any way. It was it fast. It did not handle well, but it lasted forever. I drove cross-country and back, and then I gave it to my sister, and she drove it for another 10 years.

  Ethan Hawke

  Country, Years, Car

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• During my early years, I thought I might be a musician. Like most kids, I didn't do what my parents wanted me to do. They were gung-ho that all their kids become actors. They loved showbiz so much. I am a product of nepotism, basically.

  Jeff Bridges

  Kids, Years, Musician

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2011.

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• As a kid, you want to be liked for who you are. You don't want to be liked for who your parents are. You don't want to get a job because of who your parents are. You want to do it on your own, with your own gifts and your own value. So, I decided to spare my kids that and not be as pro-active as my dad was.

  Jeff Bridges

  Jobs, Dad, Kids

  "Jeff Bridges Interview AMERICAN MASTERS – JEFF BRIDGES: THE DUDE ABIDES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 10, 2011.

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• My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, "If you want to do that, fine." When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, "Fine, but study welding just in case."

  Robin Williams

  Father, Nice, Childhood

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.

  Kumar Sangakkara

  Growing Up, Role Models, Roles

  Source: www.sundaytimes.lk

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• As you get older, all the things your parents said to you when you were younger ring true, but when you're younger, you reject them.

  Julianna Margulies

  Said, Rings, Rejects

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• There is always need for good foster parents, people who have room in their homes, the openhearted people.

  Antwone Fisher

  Home, People, Needs

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• I come from a musical family. Mom was a piano teacher for a large portion of her life, and Dad is a saxophone hobbyist who grew up in England during the heyday of Tubby Hayes and Ronnie Scott. I started taking piano lessons from my Mom, but it's too easy to slack off with your parent, so she passed me on to a friend of hers, where I got more motivated to play music by playing pop hits and TV themes. I did some classical training, but I was always more into the really thematic stuff.

  Gerard Cox

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

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• I think most children who are adopted ultimately want to meet their biological parents and often do. I think that is an important journey for children who are adopted to go on.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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