Parent Quotes - Page 38

• I've always known actors because my parents are actors on stage and so I lived in a very creative environment when I was a kid. All my life.

  Marion Cotillard

  Kids, Creative, Actors

  "Marion Cotillard Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. July 2, 2009.

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• The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to do that.

  Gayle King

  Dream, Kids, Responsibility

  "The Joy of Reading Can Take You So Many Places: A Chat With Gayle King". Interview with Earl Martin Phalen, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2012.

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• I don't know that any woman could ever not think about that at some point - even making the choice not to do it and getting to the place of peace of choosing not to be a parent, there would have still been some struggle in between. I'm not a man but I don't think it would occupy their minds as much.

  Naomi Watts

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.

  Winona Ryder

  Insecure, Personality, Fit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I really don't understand how parents can talk about gay couples' PDA as a problem or a transgender teen's suicide and not the fact that too many of our kids are being murdered in the schools and on the streets.

  Steven Petrow

  Suicide, Couple, School

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• When I was 6 I thought that I wanted to be a musician - like a singer-songwriter. That's what I romantically envisioned for myself. But in reality the experience of getting into music was just the opposite. My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

  Andrew Garfield

  Depressing, Reality, Guitar

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• My attitude towards money is because of my mum and dad. My parents have always worked full time and I've always had that work ethic in me.

  Amy Childs

  Attitude, Dad, Work Ethic

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance.

  Amy Childs

  Over You, Used, Allowance

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• If you ever write a book, I can only give you one piece of advice. Don't let your parents get involved.

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing, Giving

  Source: www.mysentimentexactlee.com

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• The censors were great. There's always back and forth. But it's 'Hostel 2', it's not 'Happy Feet 2'. Everybody knows what Hostel is and people that are going to see it are going for more of what they loved in the original. No one is accidentally going to walk into it, no parent is accidentally going to take their child, and we're not pretending what it is in the advertising. We're saying it's very violent, it's very scary and a continuation of the first one.

  Eli Roth

  Children, Feet, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Actors, Wanted

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• I'm in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye as far as not letting me do that stuff. That's invaluable. I can't believe how unabashedly supportive they were about everything, between music and acting.

  Darren Criss

  Art, Real, Believe

  Interview with Katie Mendelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 7, 2010.

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• Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Children, Growing Up, Trying

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• My grandmother was also an active member of the tenants association and a staunch supporter of the Democratic Party, and both of my parents were extremely liberal, so I think I grew up in a household that was very politically conscious - we all watched the elections on TV, and we watched the debates. So it was an awareness that we were raised with, and as we grew into young adults, we just naturally became politically active. It was just understood that it was important, that it was our responsibility.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Party, Responsibility, Grandmother

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I think every young child can learn through any martial art. They would then learn to respect their life, respect their parents, respect their country, and respect the whole world.

  Jackie Chan

  Country, Art, Children

  "The Karate Kid - Jackie Chan interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Baby, Art, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up...But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.

  Abby Huntsman

  Growing Up, Opportunity, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• True love is the parent of humility.

  William Ellery Channing

  Love, Humility, True Love

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• When I think of my background, if I was privileged on any level, it was in terms of the kind of exposure to experience and bohe-mian cultural influence that my parents and my uncles and my grandfather gave me. On both sides I come from an extremely eccentric, artsy, intellectually intense, activist family.

  Edward Norton

  Uncles, Thinking, Grandfather

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• You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.

  Danica Patrick

  Jobs, Growing Up, Responsibility

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• It's a huge advantage to have parents who read to you. And it's an advantage that lasts a lifetime.

  Laura Bush

  Lasts, Lifetime, Advantage

  "Interview: Laura Bush and Jenna Bush". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. March 27, 2008.

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• There is a human longing to go back to other times. We all know how when we were children we asked our parents, "What was it like when you were a kid?" I think it probably has something to do with our survival as a species.

  David McCullough

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• I was so fortunate. My parents lived lives of service. They helped other people, that was their second nature; it came to them so naturally. It wasn't forced. This is their character, and it's a big advantage I have, being raised by people like this, having a secure and stable life, and a lot of love and encouragement.

  Laura Bush

  Encouragement, Character, People

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: 'Education Is The Key'". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we have with our parents, you wish them the best and you wish them the worst more than anybody else in the world. I think everyone has had a moment in their life where they wished a parent ill, and I think it's perhaps a very romantic idea that that doesn't happen.

  Alice Sebold

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Kids, Play

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.68, Random House

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