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I've never had to rebel against my parents; I never had that sort of teen-angst thing where you didn't get along with them. My dad's always been my buddy.
Daria Werbowy
You
Parents
Never
Had
Buddy
Along
Sort
Always
Been
Get
Where
Against
Them
Rebel
Dad
Thing
When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there.
Darrell Hammond
Health
Home
Director
Mental Health
Parents
Minutes
Mental
Hours
Within
Left
Department
Being
Florida
Needed
University
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
Music
Me
Minority
Parents
Believe
Everything
Unabashedly
Eye
About
Invaluable
Having
Never
Between
Stuff
Supportive
How
Real
Were
Arts
As Far As
Regards
Far
Really
Acting
Letting
I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.
Darren Criss
Time
Gay
Age
Parents
Community
Gay Community
Spent
Had
Massive
Very
Very Early Age
Inadvertently
Straight
Amount
Early
Raised
Early Age
I've seen a shift in general about the literacy of the public to what Tourette's is. And that's a testament to local kids and parents having the courage to share their experience.
Dash Mihok
Courage
Experience
Seen
Parents
Local
Kids
About
General
Having
Share
Testament
Shift
Literacy
Public
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry
Good
College
Parents
Become
Believe
Our
We Cannot
Must
Educated
Encourage
Afford
Get
Children
Cannot
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products.
Dave Ramsey
Good
Business
Learning
Parents
Students
Making
Traditional
Sales
Sell
Grades
Behaving
Children
Teachers
Products
Good Grades
You know, we were worried that in the UK, there's no anarchy on kids TV. When we grew up kids TV was very anarchic and it was about stuff that your parents would probably object to, if they got to object. And it's gotten very safe.
Dave Rowntree
You
Parents
Worried
Anarchic
Anarchy
UK
Kids
TV
Would
Object
About
Stuff
Know
Safe
Got
Gotten
Were
Up
Very
Grew
Your
Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.
Daveed Diggs
Parents
Live
Oakland
Out
Neither
Both
Got
Anymore
Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled, or scripted. In fact, the less regimented such testimony sharing is, the greater the likelihood for edification and lasting impact.
David A. Bednar
Opportunities
Parents
Lasting
Impact
Bear
Fact
Spiritually
Sharing
Attentive
Spontaneously
Likelihood
Occasions
Greater
Testimony
Children
In Fact
Scripted
Should
Less
Vigilant
Need
Programmed
When I was seven my parents divorced. My father went to Dallas. My mom fled to the shelter of my grandparents in a strange central Ohio town of 22,000, Wooster. When it looked like I was growing up to be a wimp I was forced to live with my father, which I did not want to do.
David Berman
Mom
Strange
Father
Parents
Live
Seven
Divorced
Town
Like
Looked
Forced
Shelter
Up
Did
Ohio
Want
Which
Central
Grandparents
Growing
Growing Up
Dallas
Children whose parents return to study do much better at school. Offenders who persist with studies are much less likely to reoffend. The national mental health strategy recognises the important role adult learning can play for people recovering from mental illness.
David Blunkett
Health
Learning
People
Mental Health
Better
School
Parents
Important
National
Strategy
Recognises
Mental
Mental Illness
Recovering
Adult
Studies
Study
Likely
Return
Important Role
Offenders
Persist
Role
Children
Much
Less
Who
Illness
Whose
Play
I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.
David Bowie
Family
Father
Parents
Believe
Every
Relative
Able
About
Never
Longer
Openly
Talk
Read
Always
Heard
Question
Different
Anything
Story
Regretted
Many
Different Story
Things
Last
The fundamental premise of sci-fi is not spaceships and lasers - it's that children can learn from the mistakes of their parents.
David Brin
Parents
Mistakes
Learn
Sci-Fi
Children
Premise
Fundamental
'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in.
David Duchovny
Saying
Spiritual
Tired
People
Mother
Ending
Word
Father
Parents
Took
Back
Out
Kind
Spirit
Never
He
Put
Divorced
Name
Obviously
Because
Itself
Did
Legally
Means
We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I mean, what's wrong with us?
David Foster Wallace
Parents
Wish
Back
Kind
Would
Some
About
Fact
Wrong
Come
Wishing
Course
Uneasy
Mean
Us
If you look at 'Gnomeo & Juliet,' the movie's message essentially says it doesn't matter if you're a 'red' or a 'blue': at the end of the day, parents should love their children and want what's best for them.
David Furnish
Love
Best
Day
You
End Of The Day
Matter
Parents
Says
Red
Look
Message
Juliet
End
Blue
Essentially
Children
Want
Movie
Them
Should
I feel like the most human among us are the weirdest among us. Those voices can be the most creative and the most special. You look around at your parents, your friends, your aunts and uncles, and you realize nobody is normal.
David Harbour
You
Creative
Parents
Those
Voices
Uncles
Feel
Nobody
Weirdest
Like
Look
Most
Around
Aunts
Normal
Friends
Human
Realize
Us
Your
Special
Among
My parents are very proud of my success but still worry, as I'm in a profession where there is no guarantee of work. They have always supported my decision to go into acting, but there have been tough times work-wise.
David Harewood
Success
Work
Tough Times
Decision
Parents
Tough
Worry
No Guarantee
Supported
Always
Proud
Still
Go
Been
Very
Times
Where
Acting
Profession
Guarantee
My parents both defected from communist Hungary and were what most people would today call libertarian. I grew up with a general distaste for taxation and any policy that intruded on our lives.
David Harsanyi
Today
People
Hungary
Parents
Our
Distaste
Our Lives
Libertarian
Would
General
Both
Most
Call
Policy
Were
Up
Any
Grew
Taxation
Communist
Lives
As with most people, my ideology and my attitudes about life were informed by parents and family.
David Harsanyi
Life
Family
People
Parents
Ideology
About
Attitudes
Most
Were
Informed
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.
David Henry Hwang
Religion
You
Culture
Ethics
Parents
Control
Way
Worship
Ancestors
Religious
General
More
Dead
Very
Than
After
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Confucianism
Even
Code
I was 25 when I'd told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn't have been less enthusiastic if I'd proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.
David Jason
Work
Parents
Giving
Giving Up
Become
Bathroom
Enthusiastic
Steady
Steady Work
Proposed
Operation
Been
Up
Commercial
Less
Electrician
Actor
Starting
The Christmas of 1965 was a Yuletide with a difference at my parents' tiny terrace house in North London: it was the first time my family had been able to see me on television.
David Jason
Christmas
Time
Family
Me
Parents
First
Television
See
Able
London
Had
House
Terrace
First Time
Been
North
Tiny
Difference
We were taught fortitude by our parents, who had gone through the war. Being a child then was fun. We could go out and play in the street - there were few cars - and we felt very safe.
David Jason
War
Car
Parents
Few
Gone
Our
Out
Could
Through
Had
Safe
Felt
Go
Were
Very
Child
Taught
Being
Then
Fortitude
Who
Fun
Play
Street
When I was a lad, my parents and all their equivalents never lusted after other people's riches or success.
David Jason
Success
People
Parents
Other
Never
Lad
After
Riches
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