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Nothing I have ever done has made my future worse, my parents' life worse, my daughter's life worse.
Farrah Abraham
Life
Future
Made
Parents
Daughter
Nothing
Worse
Done
Ever
My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
Fat Joe
Education
Problem
Parents
Think
Healthier
Overweight
America
Lack
Biggest
Place
Biggest Problem
Them
Cook
Teaching
Start
It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
Fay Wray
Good
Better
Mother
Parents
Those
Intolerant
Kinds
Having
Had
Developed
Along
Suppose
Qualities
Make
Were
Friendships
Times
Getting
Quite
Being
Them
Produce
Us
I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
Felicity Jones
Time
Me
Balance
Parents
Think
Would
Individual
Like
Go
Straight
Acting
Full
Naturally
Full-Time
I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
Felicity Jones
Future
Myself
Me
You
Strong
Independence
Parents
Sense
Think
Gave
Strong Sense
Could
Divorce
Support
Know
Make
Sure
Because
Self-Reliance
Very
Going
Happen
Realised
Needed
It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
Felicity Kendal
Long
Parents
Before
Stage
Down
India
Shakespeare
Foot
Headed
Performing
Courtesy
Up
Up And Down
Land
Acting
Acting Career
England
Company
Travelling
Players
Started
Career
Set
My parents are very similar to me.
Fernando Alonso
Me
Parents
Similar
Very
I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
Flea
Father
Parents
Particularly
Terrified
Up
Being
Grew
Figures
I can't ignore what I grew up listening to. My parents used to listen to Michael Jackson non-stop. They used to listen to Luther Vandross, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder.
Fleur East
Listening
Parents
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Non-Stop
Up
Wonder
Michael
Michael Jackson
Lionel
Jackson
Listen
Grew
Richie
Used
Ignore
Luther
Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
Foster Friess
Struggle
Parents
Would-Be
Cost
Through
Obstacle
Course
Years
Bureaucratic
Average
I'm very lucky because my eyes work with almost any hair color. Thanks for the genetics, parents.
Frances Bean Cobain
Work
Eyes
Parents
Hair
Thanks
Color
Hair Color
Almost
Genetics
Because
Very
Any
Lucky
I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
Frances Bean Cobain
People
Parents
Out
Know
Because
Came
Womb
Famous
Wanted
Who
Default
My parents were hardworking and still are. Everything I do is for them and the family.
Frances Tiafoe
Family
Parents
Everything
Still
Were
Them
Hardworking
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.
Francesca Lia Block
Love
Parents
Teenager
Monthly
Introduced
More
Emily
Emily Dickinson
Poetry
Poets
Anne
Like
Also
Subscribed
Influence
Cerebral
Who
To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.
Francesco Totti
Today
You
Parents
Become
Yesterday
Think
Like
Perhaps
Fairytale
Pass
Up
Children
Shout
Who
Grown
Grown-Up
Career
My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.
Francisco Costa
Fashion
Parents
Factory
Had
Industry
Textile
Linked
Fashion Industry
I was a very lucky child because at the age of 16, 17 years old, my parents would buy me clothes from Yves Saint Laurent, which was an incredible luxury at the time, but I was attracted to that whole world. I had a pretty nice little wardrobe by the age of 17.
Francois Nars
Buy
Time
Me
Age
World
Old
Luxury
Parents
Clothes
Nice
Incredible
Would
Pretty
Had
Attracted
Because
Saint
Years
Very
Child
Which
Wardrobe
Little
Whole
Lucky
If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents.
Frank Abagnale
Home
Broken
Parents
Down
Baby
Say
Only
Lay
Could
Con
Wanted
Product
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
Frank Black
Me
Reality
Parents
Inner Voice
Defined
Musician
Voice
Writer
Beyond
Singer
Because
Trade
Always
Command
Been
Handed
Maybe
Prodigy
Inner
A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.
Frank Pierson
Free
Parents
Free Speech
Live
Alive
Responsible
Remote
Either
Use
Viewers
Show
Speech
No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
Frank Pittman
Parents
Satisfied
Adult
No-One
Powerful
Him
However
His
Successful
Function
Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
Frank Pittman
Parents
Ourselves
Distrust
Seem
Make
Always
Them
Us
My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. The first presidential transition of my sentient lifetime, Kennedy's, I remember vividly.
Frank Rich
Government
Remember
Parents
First
Presidential
Vantage
Vantage Point
Vividly
Point
Lifetime
Particular
Duck
Odd
Were
Historical
Upbringing
Native
Transition
Sentient
Product
Whose
Kennedy
I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.
Frank Shorter
Sports
Parents
Think
Kick
Kids
Out
Had
Demise
Lot
Just
Door
Much
Used
I was seeing kids my age playing shows at their parents' houses or the couple of all-ages venues that existed. I feel like I saw so many different kinds of music that I wouldn't have discovered on my own.
Frankie Cosmos
Music
Age
Parents
Own
Different Kinds
Saw
Kids
Kinds
Seeing
My Own
Feel
Like
Couple
Houses
Venues
Discovered
Existed
Different
Many
Shows
Playing
My parents listened to a lot of James Taylor and Hall and Oates. My mom and I used to listen to Liz Phair and Indigo Girls a lot in the car, too.
Frankie Cosmos
Mom
Car
Girl
Parents
Too
Hall
Lot
Listen
Listened
James
James Taylor
Taylor
Used
Liz
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