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When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.
Derek Cianfrance
War
Me
Parents
Young
Other
Relationships
Kid
Those
Entering
Would
Scared
Split
Had
Adulthood
Divorce
Like
Felt
Up
Get
Trying
Just
Confront
Twenty
Nuclear
Things
Nuclear War
Two
Needed
Nightmares
I always used to get in trouble for talking too much. When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
Derek Jeter
Time
Me
Remember
Too Much
Parents
Trouble
Too
Embarrassed
Would
About
Talking
Always
Hear
Conferences
Get
Much
Used
I wasn't terribly sociable. I had two or three friends at school. I drew things, played with Lego. My parents left me free to do whatever made me happy.
Derren Brown
Me
Happy
School
Made
Free
Three
Parents
Whatever
Drew
Had
Terribly
Left
Friends
Lego
Sociable
Things
Played
Two
I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'
Devon Werkheiser
Me
You
Parents
Picture
Say
Kid
Taken
Come
Know
His
Up
Wants
Who
There was no way that I could explain to dogs, friends, or parents my compelling need to return to Africa to launch a long-term study of the gorillas.
Dian Fossey
Parents
Way
Launch
Could
Study
Long-Term
Return
Dogs
Friends
Africa
Explain
Compelling
Need
I believe that you should not be just raised on what the music is right then. You should be raised on what is from your past, what your parents have grown up with, because it's a really big piece of your culture that you need to know about, and I'm glad my mother has done that for me.
Diana DeGarmo
Music
Me
You
Culture
Mother
Parents
Big
Past
Believe
About
Glad
Know
Piece
Because
Up
Done
Just
Then
Really
Should
Your
Grown
Grown-Up
Right
Raised
Need
By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure the parents of America that the food they feed their children is the product of the safest system in the world.
Diana DeGette
Food
World
Parents
Giving
Intervene
Resources
Once
Adequate
System
Administration
Prevent
Both
Feed
Support
Safest
America
Efforts
Authority
Children
Product
Reassure
Appear
If people look at me and, certainly, my brothers, and they see strength and guts, they'd have to know my parents. If they wanted to know why we're so close as a family, that closeness comes from my mother and father.
Diana Lopez
Strength
Family
Me
People
Mother
Father
Parents
Mother And Father
See
Brothers
Guts
Know
Look
Close
Closeness
Wanted
Certainly
Why
Neither one of my parents played sports at a very high level when they grew up in Nicaragua.
Diana Lopez
Sports
Parents
High
Neither
High Level
Up
Very
Grew
Nicaragua
Level
Played
My parents liked to go dancing, and they encouraged all of us to bring our friends home. My brother had a skiffle group, and there would often be dancing in the house. And my parents would come and dance with us.
Diana Quick
Home
Dance
Parents
Group
Our
Dancing
Would
Brother
Had
Come
Liked
House
Go
Encouraged
Friends
Often
Us
Bring
My parents really did believe in the Golden Rule. They really did believe that all people should be treated equally. They had friends of every culture, we celebrated different holidays, but really, secretly behind it, they had no problem telling me who I couldn't marry.
Diane Farr
Me
Culture
People
Problem
Parents
Believe
Every
Rule
Secretly
Telling
All People
Marry
No Problem
Had
Equally
Friends
Celebrated
Did
Behind
The Golden Rule
Golden
Different
Golden Rule
Holidays
Really
Should
Who
Treated
My parents have always been very honest with me.
Diane Guerrero
Me
Parents
Always
Been
Very
Honest
Throughout my childhood, I watched my parents try to become legal but to no avail. They lost their money to people they believed to be attorneys but who ultimately never helped. That meant my childhood was haunted by the fear that they would be deported.
Diane Guerrero
Legal
People
Money
Fear
Try
Parents
Become
Lost
Would
Would-Be
Haunted
Throughout
Never
Attorneys
Ultimately
Childhood
Avail
Meant
Who
Helped
Believed
Watched
My real story is this: I am the citizen daughter of immigrant parents who were deported when I was 14. My older brother was also deported.
Diane Guerrero
Citizen
Parents
Daughter
Older
Immigrant
Brother
Also
Am
Real
Were
Real Story
Story
Who
Older Brother
I worked a variety of jobs in retail and at coffee shops all through high school. And, though I was surrounded by people who cared about me, part of me ached with every accomplishment, because my parents weren't there to share my joy.
Diane Guerrero
Me
People
Joy
School
Coffee
Parents
Every
Though
Jobs
High
High School
About
Variety
Through
Retail
Share
Part
Because
Were
Accomplishment
Surrounded
Shops
Worked
Who
Coffee Shops
Cared
My parents instilled a lot of American values in me. They encouraged me to work hard and told me that anything was possible for me because I was a citizen.
Diane Guerrero
Work
Me
Work Hard
Values
Citizen
Parents
Possible
Instilled
Because
Encouraged
Lot
American
Anything
Hard
American Values
I loved to sing and dance and play-act, and I always believed that my dream to become an actor would come true because my immigrant parents had taught me to believe in the American dream.
Diane Guerrero
Me
Dance
Parents
Become
Believe
Immigrant
Dream
Would
Had
True
Come
Sing
Because
Always
American
Taught
American Dream
Loved
Actor
Believed
I always wanted to, to the smallest detail, make my parents proud.
Diane Guerrero
Parents
Detail
Smallest
Make
Always
Proud
Wanted
Before I cook, I always have to put on music that parents listened to while cooking. I remember waking up in the morning and seeing my dad making breakfast with music and cutting up the tomato and singing to it and just handling food with such care. So when I cook, I put on salsa, vallenato, cumbia, or anything that reminds me of Colombia.
Diane Guerrero
Music
Food
Morning
Me
Cooking
Remember
Care
Parents
Singing
Before
Breakfast
Seeing
Colombia
Put
Reminds
Always
Making
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Handling
Listened
Just
Anything
While
Cutting
Cook
Dad
Tomato
I am a proud American, regardless of the fact that my parents were separated from me forcefully.
Diane Guerrero
Me
Parents
Fact
Proud
Am
Were
American
Regardless
Separated
I'm one of nine sisters. My parents were dairy farmers in Wisconsin. My father didn't believe in girls doing farm work. Girls did housework, and he hired young men to do farm work. I would have preferred to be outside.
Diane Hendricks
Work
Father
Men
Girl
Parents
Young
Farm
Believe
Dairy
Nine
Would
Outside
He
Wisconsin
Housework
Doing
Hired
Were
Sisters
Did
Young Men
Preferred
Farmers
I became pregnant by my first love at 17 and did what my parents thought was the right thing. I married him. My first husband and I moved to Janesville, Wis., where he worked in a Chrysler plant.
Diane Hendricks
Love
Plant
Thought
Husband
Parents
First
Chrysler
Right Thing
Married
He
First Love
Him
Became
Did
Moved
Where
The Right Thing
Pregnant
Worked
Right
Thing
I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car.
Diane Lane
Car
Parents
Kid
Only
Had
Knew
Manhattan
Whose
At West Point, we first lived in Central Apartments in a third-floor walk-up next to the hospital where my father worked. My two younger brothers and I shared one big bedroom, and my parents had a tiny one.
Dianne Wiest
Father
Parents
First
Big
Brothers
Point
Hospital
Had
Shared
Bedroom
West
West Point
Tiny
Where
Central
Apartments
Younger
Worked
Next
Lived
Two
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.
Dick Cavett
You
Parents
Never
Had
Children
Either
Your
Chance
Chances
All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'
Dick Cavett
Depression
Me
Money
School
Mother
Three
Parents
Spend
Dime
High
Some
High School
Something
Could
Had
He
Stepmother
Reminded
Also
Always
Go
Were
Going
Taught
Movie
Bread
Decide
Whether
Your
Teachers
Dad
Loaf
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