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My parents were immigrants who started a nursery as a way to get us kids through school. I learned around the dinner table about customer service and cash flow and paying bills.
Jack Dangermond
Service
School
Dinner
Parents
Nursery
Way
Kids
Immigrants
Dinner Table
Table
About
Cash
Through
Learned
Around
Were
Get
Customer
Customer Service
Us
Paying
Who
Bills
Started
Flow
My parents always encouraged me to do creative stuff, to do weird stuff.
Jack Kilmer
Me
Creative
Parents
Weird
Stuff
Always
Encouraged
The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
Jack Lemmon
Great
Together
Parents
Trouble
Terrible
Were
While
Apart
I remember trying to be funny, and both of my parents were terribly funny. My father was also very dignified, but my mother was an absolute ding-a-ling, a ripper.
Jack Lemmon
Funny
Remember
Mother
Father
Parents
Dignified
Both
Absolute
Also
Terribly
Were
Very
Trying
Our parents were just brilliant parents who encouraged us to do whatever we wanted to do.
Jack Lowden
Brilliant
Parents
Whatever
Our
Were
Encouraged
Just
Wanted
Us
Who
One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
Jack Nicholson
Good
Day
School
Parents
Summer
All Day
Kids
Would
School Friends
Course
Score
Friends
Bunch
Owned
Us
Play
I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
Jack Ramsay
Time
Me
Sports
School
Parents
High
John
High School
Anne
Encouraged
Grade
Grade School
Play
Playing
The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
Jack Valenti
Parents
Group
Only
Doing
America
Scrutinize
Deserves
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
Jack Wagner
Me
Confidence
Happy
People
Parents
Gave
Extremely
Financially
Were
Happy People
Successful
I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
Jack White
Me
School
Old
Circle
Parents
Bits
Kids
Crowd
Haircut
Drum
Shave
Blew
Around
Got
Passing
Years
Five
Person
Front
Little
Away
Played
Last
Two
I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
Jacki Weaver
Love
Gay
People
Parents
Big
Sweet
Group
Hundreds
Hundreds Of People
Parade
Out
Thousands
Thousands Of People
Participate
Well
Got
Proud
Very
Children
Middle-Aged
Which
Little
Elderly
Who
March
Marching
Sydney
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
Jackie Evancho
Me
Strict
Parents
Swimming
Summer
About
Having
Go
Yes
Childhood
Ice
Skating
It's easy to say that he/she is a star kid and has had it easy in Bollywood, but being a star kid is the real pressure. You have to undergo a lot of pressure, as you are being constantly compared to your parents.
Jackie Shroff
You
Pressure
Parents
Say
Kid
Easy
Constantly
Had
Undergo
Real
Lot
Being
Your
Bollywood
Compared
Star
I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
Jacky Ido
World
Mind
Parents
Kind
Hybrid
Paris
Outside
Had
Between
Like
Opens
Cultures
Up
Just
African
Doorstep
Suburb
Your
Growing
Lived
Growing Up
Raised
My parents divorced when I was 18 months old. They haven't always been the best of friends, but they were good at keeping that stuff away from me.
Jacob Anderson
Best
Good
Me
Old
Parents
Months
Divorced
Stuff
Always
Were
Been
Friends
Away
Keeping
When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.
Jacob Artist
Conversation
School
Dance
Parents
Some
Accepted
Greatest
Got
Truly
Ultimately
Senior
Move
Decided
Act
Fun
Ever
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
Jacob Epstein
Art
Me
Parents
Living
Starvation
Could
Idea
Make
Understand
How
Condemned
Discourage
Person
Did
Artist
Who
I started homeschooling when I was 13. I wasn't really doing the social media thing yet; I didn't have any fans, but I knew that public school wasn't the place for me. It was draining my creativity, and so both my parents supported me in being homeschooled, and they really gave me a chance to focus on getting good at guitar.
Jacob Whitesides
Good
Me
Creativity
Guitar
School
Fans
Social Media
Focus
Parents
Draining
Gave
Both
Both My Parents
Knew
Supported
Doing
Any
Getting
Being
Place
Public
Social
Really
Public School
Media
Thing
Started
Chance
I was an accidental banker. To please my parents, I went for an interview with Chase Manhattan Bank in 1983. They promised to send me into their offices in more than 40 countries and essentially audit the practices. It was an extraordinary job.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Me
Job
Parents
Extraordinary
Interview
Please
Promised
More
Chase
Countries
Practices
Accidental
Audit
Than
Offices
Send
Bank
Essentially
Banker
Manhattan
You know, my parents had a restaurant. And I left home, actually, in 1949, when I was 13 years old, to go into apprenticeship. And actually when I left home, home was a restaurant - like I said, my mother was a chef. So I can't remember any time in my life, from age 5, 6, that I wasn't in a kitchen.
Jacques Pepin
Life
Time
Home
You
Age
Remember
Mother
Old
My Life
Parents
Apprenticeship
Restaurant
Kitchen
Had
Like
Know
Chef
Said
Go
Years
Left
Any
Actually
I started cooking around 9 years old. I would make crepes at home for my parents. By 15 years old, I had started my apprenticeship at a bakery.
Jacques Torres
Home
Cooking
Old
Parents
Apprenticeship
Would
Had
Bakery
Make
Around
Years
Started
When you are born into a family like mine, you don't really know anything else. But you quickly realise that it's more about other people and how they are dealing with it. Some can be hugely in awe or uncomfortable, but to you, your parents are just your parents.
Jade Jagger
Family
You
People
Parents
Other
Else
Mine
Some
Born
About
More
Uncomfortable
Like
Know
Dealing
How
Quickly
Hugely
Just
Anything
Anything Else
Realise
Really
Your
Awe
I really hate it when people ask me who my icons are. When your parents are Bianca and Mick, you don't really need any more icons in your life.
Jade Jagger
Life
Me
You
Hate
People
Parents
More
Any
Icons
Ask
Really
Your
Who
Need
My parents are definitely my biggest role models.
Jaden Smith
Parents
Definitely
Role
Role Models
Models
Biggest
It's like the old thing: The parents stay together for the kids, but the kids know that you don't want to be together. The kids would rather you be happy - and separate - than together and miserable. I don't want my kid to grow up around two parents who just don't work.
Jaime Pressly
Work
You
Be Happy
Together
Happy
Old
Parents
Miserable
Kid
Kids
Would
Stay
Rather
Like
Know
Around
Up
Than
Just
Want
Separate
Old Thing
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Thing
Two
I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.
Jaime Pressly
Thought
Parents
Own
Later
Strong-Willed
My Own
Outside
Had
Idea
Box
Felt
Years
Off
Contract
Very
Just
Japan
Working
Apologized
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