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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Try
Parents
Like
Shelter
Children
Who
My mother is a very strong woman. We were seven kids; five of them passed away. My elder brother and I are alive. My mother lost five kids, her husband, her parents and siblings. But she is so strong, she is living for the people who are alive.
Nana Patekar
Woman
People
Strong
Mother
Husband
Parents
Lost
Living
Seven
Alive
Kids
Brother
Strong Woman
For The People
She
Passed
Were
Very
Five
Them
Elder
Who
Away
Her
Sibling
Back when I was growing up, getting caught with a copy of 'Creepy,' 'Eerie' or 'Vampirella' was almost as bad as your parents finding out you were reading 'Playboy.'
Nancy A. Collins
You
Parents
Reading
Back
Out
Bad
Finding
Almost
Caught
Were
Up
Getting
Your
Growing
Growing Up
Playboy
Copy
Creepy
The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?
Nancy Gibbs
Technology
Parents
Build
Community
Out
Park
Long-Distance
Learned
Still
Go
Were
Surprised
Texting
Anxious
Afraid
While
Them
Elders
Should
Tweeting
Cocoon
Play
Millennials
Leverage
Raised
In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
Nancy Gibbs
Alone
Training
Reward
Parents
Starts
Baby
Resources
Kids
Classic
Case
Colleges
Parent
Charts
Never
Devote
How
Leave
Western
Ends
Einstein
Which
Really
Helicopter
Toilet
Teaching
Many
Why
Anyone with the right mix of parental paranoia and entrepreneurial moxie can make a fortune by selling parents the equipment we think will keep us one step ahead of our kids.
Nancy Gibbs
Will
Parents
Think
Our
Kids
Paranoia
Parental
Entrepreneurial
Step
Make
Equipment
Mix
Selling
Anyone
Us
Fortune
Keep
Right
Even now, my husband Jerry, our son Matthew and I live only five minutes away from my parents home, and my brothers live about ten minutes away. It's been great having such a supportive family.
Nancy Kerrigan
Home
Great
Family
Son
Husband
Parents
Live
Our
Minutes
Brothers
About
Ten
Having
Only
Ten Minutes
Supportive
Been
Five
Matthew
Even
Even Now
Now
Jerry
Away
My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to skate when they had already paid for the expensive lessons. But, otherwise they said I could do what I wanted to do.
Nancy Kerrigan
Me
Parents
Otherwise
Pressured
Only
Could
Never
Had
Said
Always
Expected
Quit
Expensive
Wanted
Skate
Paid
Lessons
I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.
Nancy Pelosi
Good
Memory
Enthusiasm
Parents
Energy
Must
Feel
Genes
Because
Even
My parents were concerned that I would not get good schooling, so they put me up in my uncle's house in Dharwad, and I spent about six years there. So at a very young age, I was away from my parents. I developed an amount of independence and learned to stand on my own feet.
Nandan Nilekani
Good
Me
Age
Independence
Parents
Uncle
Own
Young
Spent
Would
About
My Own
Developed
Put
Feet
House
Schooling
Concerned
Learned
Were
Years
Up
Very
Get
Six
Young Age
Stand
Away
Amount
My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.
Naomi Alderman
Me
Library
Mother
Old
Parents
Year
Before
Few
Every
Would
Both
Take
Days
Readers
Year-Old
Intellectuals
My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
Narciso Rodriguez
Doctor
Parents
Lawyer
Immigrants
Dream
Give
More
Never
Cuban
Understood
American
American Dream
Children
Want
Wanted
Them
Who
Why
My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.
Naseem Hamed
Me
Speak
Parents
Manners
Way
High
Brought
Head
Wrong
Know
Up
Hold
Right
I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
Nasim Pedrad
Age
School
Comedy
Parents
Young
Late
Late Bloomer
Definitely
Had
Part
Knew
Weird
Name
Accents
Because
Fit
Bloomer
Trying
Maybe
Young Age
Wanted
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski
Buy
Me
Parents
Way
Television
Some
Put
Toys
Encouraged
Lots
American
Front
Interested
Found
I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
Nat Wolff
Art
Business
Made
Parents
Had
Concern
Sure
Biggest
My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
Natalia Kills
Time
Long
Parents
Long Time
Lost
Situation
Resolved
Other
Everything
Never
Had
Ideal
Disastrous
Sort
Passionate
Up
Itself
Jail
Each
Dad
Grow
Grow Up
Desire
I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
Natalie Cole
Sex
Parents
Think
Those
Would
Would-Be
Some
About
Days
Like
Talked
Just
Reason
Exposed
Even
Imagined
There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
Natalie Cole
You
Travel
Father
Parents
Meet
Kind
Something
Environment
Missing
Looked
Inevitably
Lot
Up
Expected
Famous
Your
Standards
Grow
Grow Up
Need
I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
Natalie Portman
Man
Woman
Women
People
Men
Parents
Every
Possible
Able
Combination
Version
Women And Men
Any
Want
Working
Working People
Full-Time
Two
I saw my parents as gods whose every wish must be obeyed or I would suffer the penalty of anguish and guilt.
Natalie Wood
Guilt
Parents
Wish
Every
Saw
Penalty
Must
Would
Obeyed
Anguish
Gods
Suffer
Whose
My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
Natalie Zea
Life
Great
Relationship
Parents
Young
Move On
Incredibly
Great Friends
About
Relinquish
Point
Could
Throughout
Divorced
Maintained
Until
Call
Partners
Were
Friends
Very
Move
Which
Realized
Whole
My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
Natalie du Toit
Morning
Me
Dog
Parents
First
Gave
Must
Puppy
Give
Attention
Boxer
Years
Wanted
Her
Present
Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'
Natasha Henstridge
Me
Parents
Cute
Every
Mine
See
Casually
Check
Deal
How
How Much
Going
Movie
Much
Asking
Even
Now
Ever
My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.
Natasha Trethewey
Mother
Father
Black
Parents
White
Married
Had
Mississippi
Because
Still
Go
Get
Get Married
Ohio
Illegal
My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
Nate Diaz
Me
Anxiety
Smart
Parents
Stupid
Bit
Kids
Would
Classes
About
Classroom
Had
Putting
Feel
Like
Make
Another
Around
Always
Were
Lot
Jumping
Moved
Little
Little Bit
Special
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