Parent Quotes - Page 31

• I was never told to "Get up, get out there, get a job." It was never a thing either parent ever said I had to do. It was what I wanted to do. I think I was very interested in being away from them as much as possible. Employment was great for that.

  Henry Rollins

  Jobs, Thinking, Employment

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• I wish my parents had raised me in Manhattan because I think it's the greatest thing you can do for a kid is to raise them in New York City. I can see this with my own children.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Children, Kids

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

  Jack Nicholson

  Silly, Simple, Doors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• One thing I've learnt is you should never fight it. They're natural emotions and when you try and bottle everything up, that's what can make you depressed. Luckily I have fantastic memories [about my parents] and they really help.

  Simon Cowell

  Memories, Fighting, Trying

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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• God gave me the gift of faith. I don't mean that in any miraculous sense, I mean through the parents who educated me, through the brothers and sisters I grew up with, the schools I went to, there was this influence upon me which was the faith, in the concrete. I accepted it, I questioned it, I grew up with it, and in the end, as a mature adult, I continue to accept it.

  George Coyne

  Brother, School, Mean

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• At a certain age your parents seem like the most embarrassing thing on the whole entire planet, and you want to be nowhere near them. But at the end of the day, you know that you can't literally do anything without them. You love your parents through and through, and they love you probably even more than you could ever imagine until you're a parent yourself.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Love You, The End Of The Day, Age

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• I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Artist, Honor, Want

  "True Myth: A Conversation With Sufjan Stevens". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. February 16, 2015.

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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.

  John Waters

  School, People, House

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I think [parents] became very proud, even though they were mortified by the early films because no one liked them.

  John Waters

  Thinking, Proud, Film

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• Once I had a shrink who said, "Your parents are the fuel you run on," because I was raised in the tyranny of good taste. If my parents hadn't taught me all that, I couldn't have made fun of it. So I thank them, and they were loving. It takes a long time to realize that they made me feel safe when I lived a life which was very not safe.

  John Waters

  Running, Fun, Long

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.

  Robyn

  Fun, Independent, Artist

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. February 25, 2008.

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• I wish we lived in a world where all kids were loved by their parents how I was and am every day.

  Lizzie Velasquez

  Kids, Wish, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.

  Lemar

  Strong, Rainy Day, Class

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Occasionally there are parents who say, "I brought my child so he or she could learn what the career of a writer is like, and you did this long theatrical performance instead, and I'm very disappointed."

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Careers, Long

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Boys, Childhood, Stories

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways.

  SZA

  Creative, Way, Force

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

  SZA

  Mom, Dad, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It's important for the children's point of view. That they have parents who are equally unreasonable, but in different ways.

  Guy Jenkin

  Children, Views, Important

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.

  Urijah Faber

  Unique, Thinking, Who I Am

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• I have never been in a situation thankfully where I haven't gotten along with my girlfriend's parents. I've been very lucky to have girlfriends that have had such amazing families that have brought me in.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Girlfriend, Lucky, Situation

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

  Kevin Costner

  Kids, Want, Moments

  "Kevin Costner Talks MCFARLAND, USA, What Makes a Memorable Sports Movie, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2015.

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• I played maybe one and a half games of Little League. The whole atmosphere of anxious parents and more anxious children was just too much for me.

  Harrison Ford

  Children, Games, League

  "42 Interview with Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman & Brian Helgeland". www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I don't have formal training at all, but I did grow up around design. My parents both flipped homes. A typical weekend for us was walking through model home units. I loved walking through interesting floor plans and seeing different design aesthetics.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Growing Up, Home, Weekend

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• As a parent, the goal is not to get to the other end. It's just simply to protect the children that you're responsible for - and protect their hearts - and, wherever they're headed, to get (them) there safely. That involves patience, time and willingness to listen.

  Martha Williamson

  Children, Heart, Goal

  "'Touched by an Angel' producer Martha Williamson has “Delivered” a new hit to Hallmark Channel". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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