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• My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

  Robert Harris

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• When I was a kid I never knew the difference between a sitcom and a drama. I just knew what my parents were watching and what was making them happy.

  Dan Harmon

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• I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

  Taylor Hanson

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• As parents, we need to send our kids back to ‘old-fashioned’ outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

  Darell Hammond

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• My childhood was very colourful, and I am very good friends with both my parents. We have no secrets.

  Rebecca Hall

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• Parents have to instill the right principles in their children, but then it’s up to the children to live up to those principles.

  Mary Lydon Simonsen

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• Parents who were themselves raised with too little attention given to their own early feelings, if they have not worked out the resulting emotional problems in subsequent years, often look forward to having children of their own so that the children will make them happy.

  Sheldon Kopp

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• I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, ‘You can be anything you want.’ So I was like, ‘I want to be a garbage man’ and they were like ‘That’s OK, we’ll still love you!’

  Lara Stone

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• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  Octavia Spencer

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• What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

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• Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

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• There’s nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

  Nikki Sixx

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• My working-class Italian-American parents didn’t go to school, there were no books in the house.

  Martin Scorsese

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• I was a very hyper-active child and my parents just didn’t know what to do with me.

  Jay Ryan

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• And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I’d take them back to the track and give ’em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents’ dismay, I majored in photography in college.

  John Sexton

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• My parents were very indiscrete.

  Maurice Sendak

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• My parents were ignorant peasants from the Old World.

  Maurice Sendak

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• For dinner I want real sushi – not the Americanized kind. My parents are American Samoan so I don’t go for any of those rolls. I’ll have raw prawn or sea urchin or octopus. I love

  Junior Seau

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• I played softball and basketball growing up. I really wanted to play football but both parents said no. I was mad for a second, then got over it. Now, just because I’m tall doesn’t mean I can play basketball. I was waaaaay better at swinging a bat.

  Jordin Sparks

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• All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I’m just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.

  Hal Sparks

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