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My parents were sixty years married.
Roddy Doyle
Parents
Married
Were
Years
Sixty
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
Rodman Philbrick
Life
Parents
Ambition
Abandoned
Both
Write
Had
Readers
Were
Been
Get
Order
Avid
Early
My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.
Rodney Crowell
Education
Parents
Farm
Seventh
Kids
Were
Grade
Eighth
Eighth Grade
My mom and my dad are still together, but so many of my friends who got married just a few years ago aren't. Maybe it's that we compare ourselves to our parents' generation, thinking, 'Who's still together, and are they happy?'
Rodrigo Santoro
Mom
Together
Happy
Generation
Parents
Few
Thinking
Our
Ourselves
Married
Got
Still
Years
Years Ago
Friends
Maybe
Just
Who
Many
Compare
Dad
Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger Bannister
Life
Simple
Luxury
Rugged
Parents
Expectation
Had
Part
Bleak
Come
Fairly
Very
North
Which
England
Hard-Working
I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents' disappointment. I attended Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers where Bill Esper was, and that is where I really got hooked on the art of acting, and, almost, the chemistry of acting.
Roger Bart
Art
Disappointment
School
College
Parents
Chemistry
Hooked
Driven
Attended
Almost
Mason
Study
Got
Arts
Where
Anything
Decided
Much
Really
Bill
Acting
Gross
Actor
Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
Roger Federer
Funny
You
Generation
Yourself
Girl
Parents
Before
Babies
Guess
Everything
Case
Had
New
Were
Shift
Dependent
Then
Your
Sudden
Dad
Now
Mum
Mum And Dad
Two
Third
I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
Roger Federer
Today
Good
Me
You
Respect
Problem
Try
Nervous
Parents
Enjoy
Immensely
Would
See
Tennis
Put
Come
Know
Because
Still
Came
Friends
Very
Get
Anymore
Then
Used
Show
Now
Play
Actually
Watch
Watched
The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'
Roger Goodell
Hope
Made
Parents
Would
One Thing
Proud
Go
The One Thing
Tombstone
Thing
My parents would have loved me to go to university - Oxbridge, particularly.
Roger Lloyd-Pack
Me
Parents
Would
Particularly
Go
Loved
University
Bitcoin is coming from a bunch of young computer nerds who saw this thing and thought it was neat. A lot of the early bitcoiners are 19-year-old kids, still living at home with their parents, and they don't have any business experience.
Roger Ver
Home
Business
Experience
Bitcoin
Thought
Parents
Young
Living
Saw
Kids
Nerds
Computer
Still
Coming
Lot
Bunch
Any
Who
Neat
Thing
Early
My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.
Rohit Shetty
Parents
Both
Both My Parents
Worked
Grandmother
Bollywood
I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe.
Rolf Harris
Parents
Every
Universe
Had
Implicitly
Always
Been
Hub
Inference
Britain
Entire families are attending 'Son of God' together and sharing it with their own kids. Parents are using the film as a conversation starter to help bring the story of Jesus to life for their children.
Roma Downey
Life
God
Conversation
Together
Son
Parents
Own
Kids
Entire
Sharing
Attending
Families
Children
Story
Help
Using
Film
Jesus
Bring
Starter
I lost both my parents young - but I have felt their presence throughout my life.
Roma Downey
Life
My Life
Parents
Lost
Young
Both
Both My Parents
Throughout
Felt
Presence
We always had so many kids in our family, running around the yard, sweaty little kids jumping in and out of the pool, the front door and back doors swinging open and shut, all of the parents getting pissed off telling us to stay outside.
Roman Reigns
Family
Parents
Doors
Pool
Back
Our
Kids
Out
Telling
Running
Stay
Outside
Open
Had
Around
Yard
Always
Off
Jumping
Front
Getting
Front Door
Door
Little
Us
Sweaty
Little Kids
Many
Swinging
Shut
I used to run to school with my brother Jordan. It was two or three miles there and back. We'd do it every day. My parents didn't have the money to buy us bikes. It was nice; we enjoyed it.
Romelu Lukaku
Buy
Day
Every Day
Money
School
Three
Parents
Nice
Every
Back
Run
Brother
Jordan
Bikes
Us
Miles
Used
Enjoyed
Two
For me, family has always been more important than football. The most important thing for me is that my parents and my brother are fine. That is the first thing on my mind when I wake up every day.
Romelu Lukaku
Day
Family
Me
Every Day
Wake Up
Mind
Parents
First
Important
Every
Fine
Brother
More
Football
Most
Most Important Thing
First Thing
Always
Important Thing
Been
Wake
Up
Than
The First Thing
The Most Important
Thing
My parents are super westernized. My mom listens to western music, my dad was like a pub landlord so he properly embraced English life. But the truth is they both came from tiny villages in Sri Lanka.
Romesh Ranganathan
Life
Truth
Music
Mom
Truth Is
Parents
Embraced
Super
Properly
Both
He
Like
Came
Western
Tiny
Listens
Pub
Landlord
Lanka
English
Villages
Dad
As a young child, I loved the hugs and kisses, but I also remember getting to the age when they no longer felt OK. My parents would kiss me when they dropped me off at school, which was obviously embarrassing because having loving parents makes you a social pariah.
Romesh Ranganathan
Me
You
Age
Remember
School
Kiss
Parents
Young
OK
Embarrassing
Would
Having
Kisses
Dropped
Longer
Also
Obviously
Because
Felt
Makes
Off
Child
HUGS
Getting
Young Child
Loved
Which
Loving
Loving Parents
Social
I thoroughly enjoy my children's birthdays, despite the fact their parties are an apocalyptic mix of hall-booking, Nerf-gun-hiring, refreshment-organising and talking to parents whose names you've forgotten.
Romesh Ranganathan
You
Parents
Enjoy
Birthdays
Despite
Thoroughly
Fact
Names
Parties
Talking
Mix
Forgotten
Children
Whose
Education seems to be placing increased emphasis on assessment and tracking, which means parents are terrified that if their kid doesn't exceed their expected learning level at six years old, they are immediately put in the class that ends up working at McDonald's.
Romesh Ranganathan
Education
Class
Learning
Old
Parents
Increased
Kid
Immediately
Seems
Exceed
Put
Emphasis
Tracking
Terrified
Years
Up
Expected
Six
Ends
McDonald
Which
Placing
Working
Means
Assessment
Level
My parents were artists, so my salvation was to make pretty things - and ultimately delicious things at the same time.
Ron Ben-Israel
Time
Parents
Pretty
Pretty Things
Delicious
Make
Were
Ultimately
Salvation
Same
Artists
Same Time
Things
Neither of my parents would ever stand in the way of any of their children speaking their minds.
Ron Reagan
Parents
Minds
Way
Neither
Would
Any
Children
Stand
Speaking
Ever
I'm the son of two Holocaust survivors. As a child, I heard from one of my parents' best friends about living through Mengele's infamous selection process at Auschwitz. He haunted my nightmares.
Ronen Bergman
Best
Son
Parents
Living
About
Haunted
Through
Selection
He
Heard
Infamous
Auschwitz
Friends
Child
Survivors
Process
Holocaust
Two
Nightmares
In 2005, the last year of his life, Ahmad Abu Adass was 22 and still living with his parents in Beirut, Lebanon. He was kind and liked people, his friends later told investigators, but none of them thought he was very sophisticated.
Ronen Bergman
Life
People
Thought
Parents
Year
Living
Later
Kind
Investigators
He
Abu
Sophisticated
Liked
None
Still
Lebanon
His
Friends
Very
Them
Beirut
Last
Last Year
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