"You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see."
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"Everything is ideal to its parent."
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"Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing."
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"All things are created twice. All things. Vision is the first creation. For a house it's called the blueprint. For a life it's called a mission. For a day it's called a goal and a plan. For a parent it's called a belief in the unseen potential of a child. For all, it is the mental creation which always precedes the physical, or second, creation."
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"I'd been raised by my parents to believe barfing your feelings on other people was the height of impoliteness."
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"I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future."
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"The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side."
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"However pragmatic you are, it is very demanding being a new parent."
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"My parents were sixty years married."
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"I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts for my parents and their friends. I was aiming for show business from early days, and magic was the poor man's way of getting in: you buy a trick for $2, and you've got an act."
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"I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated.And it was complicated for me."
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"As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need."
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"Raising parent awareness on how to support their students to be safe, responsible and discerning users of technology continues to be a challenge."
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"In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense."
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"Education is very important to my parents and to me."
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"As you get older you realise your parents aren't these superheroes. They're actually people."
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"Love doesn't care who your parents are."
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"Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent."
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"I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout."
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"My parents are desperate, they keep saying: 'Please stop doing these angsty roles; make it easier for us.' So, yeah, I'd love to do some comedy."
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