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My parents have both done some music stuff. My family was very artist-friendly, so that was encouraging.
Frankie Cosmos
Music
Family
Parents
Some
Both
Stuff
Encouraging
Very
Done
My parents married in 1959 and came to Amsterdam on honeymoon. That was a huge thing, event, for them. Now my children fly off for the weekend to Riga, Prague, or Barcelona.
Frans Timmermans
Fly
Parents
Honeymoon
Married
Weekend
Prague
Came
Off
Huge
Huge Thing
Children
Them
Barcelona
Event
Now
Thing
Amsterdam
My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.
Franz Boas
Broken
Parents
Shackles
Through
Had
Dogma
Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
Franz Kafka
Tyranny
Parents
Born
Educational
Methods
Selfishness
Slavery
Two
My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his father was Japanese. I was raised in New York and spent two years in Rio. My parents met at the University of Southern Mississippi, and they had me there, and then we moved to New York. I'm not very familiar with Mississippi.
Fred Armisen
Mom
Me
Father
Parents
Met
Spent
Rio
Had
New
Venezuela
Mississippi
Came
His
Years
German
Very
Familiar
Germany
Southern
York
Moved
New York
Japanese
Then
There And Then
Raised
Two
University
When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.
Fred Durst
Life
God
Time
You
Parents
Reading
Young
Kid
See
Like
Newspaper
Your
Cool
Why
A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
Fred G. Gosman
Seriously
Parents
Imagination
Other
About
Having
Never
Child
Lacking
Who
I've got a pretty close bond with everyone in my family. I've got a brother and a sister whom I'm very close to, and my parents have always been the world's best parents.
Freddie Stroma
Best
Family
World
Parents
Sister
Everyone
Brother
Pretty
Always
Got
Been
Very
Close
Whom
Bond
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
Freddy Fender
Relatives
Parents
Sister
Down
Live
Our
Francisco
Born
Came
Were
Died
San
San Francisco
Here
I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
Mathematics
Home
Parents
Reading
Both
Up
Fortunate
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Enjoyed
Hardworking
Two
I think the '70s are always inspiring to me. I was born then, so I have a lot of memories about how my parents were and what kinds of movies I was watching.
Frida Giannini
Me
Memories
Parents
Think
Kinds
Born
About
Inspiring
Always
How
Were
Lot
Movies
Then
Watching
My parents took a fairly liberal approach at raising me, always encouraging me to be creative and free-thinking.
GRiZ
Me
Creative
Parents
Liberal
Took
Approach
Fairly
Always
Encouraging
Raising
I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see 'Annie' and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching 'Rocky Horror Picture Show,' which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.
Gabriel Macht
Me
Remember
Mind
Parents
Picture
Kid
Okay
Musicals
See
Some
Horror
Somewhat
Allowed
Annie
New
Till
Rocky
Up
York
Going
New York
Being
Grew
Which
Us
Show
Watch
Watching
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht
Doctor
Parents
Lawyer
Become
Would
Brother
Had
Loved
I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
Gabrielle Union
Money
Thought
Made
Parents
First
Year
Everything
Out
Would
Would-Be
Something
More
Could
Student
Student Loans
Had
Put
Than
Just
After
Turn
Realized
Acting
Help
Actress
Career
Loans
As someone who escaped religious persecution in Lebanon and whose parents were kidnapped in Beirut, I fully support the protection of all individuals from institutional discrimination. That said, I am weary of the ethos of victimhood that has parasitized our culture.
Gad Saad
Culture
Weary
Protection
Parents
Our
Kidnapped
Religious
Someone
Support
Individuals
Institutional
Said
Am
Lebanon
Were
Persecution
Discrimination
Escaped
Ethos
Who
Fully
Beirut
Whose
I was little there were times I wanted my parents to be normal. I wanted them to have a religion. I wanted them to have a job, like the parents of every other kid I went to school with.
Gael Garcia Bernal
Religion
School
Job
Parents
Every
Other
Kid
Like
Were
Normal
Times
Wanted
Little
Them
There was a time when my parents had to sell off a plot of land so that I can buy a rifle for competitive tournaments. After that we stayed in a rented house for the next 15 years.
Gagan Narang
Buy
Time
Parents
Plot
Stayed
Had
Tournaments
House
Years
Off
Sell
After
Land
Next
Rifle
Competitive
I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
Gail Carson Levine
Today
Memory
Parents
Think
Way
Ways
Vivid
Spoke
Up
Very
Than
Closer
Grew
Many
The economic sense of possibility was so great when I was growing up that my parents had no question that I could do anything I wanted to do, even as a girl. I've always believed that the economics of a story intersects with the women's story - that stuff often happens at the time it happens because of the economy.
Gail Collins
Time
Great
Women
Girl
Parents
Economics
Sense
Possibility
Economic
No Question
Could
Had
Stuff
Economy
Because
Always
Question
Up
Often
Wanted
Anything
Happens
Story
Even
Growing
Growing Up
Believed
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis (sic) and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers
Me
Passion
Parents
Athlete
Brother
Only
Had
Talent
Became
Because
Always
Real
God-Given
God-Given Talent
Real Passion
Any
Children
Wanted
Should
Teach
Use
I have a real passion for children. I always wanted to teach and only became an athlete because my parents told my brother Parenthesis and me that we should use any God-given talent we had.
Gail Devers
Me
Passion
Parents
Athlete
Brother
Only
Had
Talent
Became
Because
Always
Real
God-Given
God-Given Talent
Real Passion
Any
Children
Wanted
Should
Teach
Use
Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.
Gallagher
Behavior
Parents
Draw
Kids
Tell
Would
Would-Be
Proper
Rather
Line
Friends
Than
Trying
Public
Them
I always travel with my coach and with my physio. And then when I'm in Europe, my parents, maybe they come to events.
Garbine Muguruza
Travel
Events
Parents
Come
Always
Maybe
Then
Coach
Europe
Conversations between parents and kids are important - about race issues, about all kinds of things, about heritage.
Garcelle Beauvais
Parents
Important
Heritage
Kids
Kinds
About
Between
Issues
Conversations
Race
Things
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.
Garry Marshall
Christmas
Day
Mom
Morning
Me
Together
Remember
Old
Thought
Parents
Gave
Saxophone
Piano
Badly
Drum
Drum Set
Greatest
Years
Five
Dad
Ever
Played
Set
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