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My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67.
‐‐ Patti Smith

My parents were very indiscrete.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

My parents were very musical in the sense that they were, you know, music lovers and avid buyers of records, but none of them actually play an instrument.
‐‐ Gustavo Santaolalla

My parents were very open about what kind of talent I had. They never pushed me to become an accountant because they knew that would be just absolutely ridiculous. So they were encouraging in what I am able to do with some success.
‐‐ Grace Slick

My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.
‐‐ Maggie Stiefvater

My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
‐‐ Barry Humphries

My parents were very poor, but we never felt any sense of need or want. It was a very close, loving, tightly-knit family growing up, and I never felt any sense of deprivation or anything like that.
‐‐ George J. Mitchell

My parents were very proud of me. After they passed, my career doesn't mean as much to me.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

My parents were very relaxed about music.
‐‐ Agnes Obel

My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

My parents were very strict about manners and being polite to others. I brought my own children up that way, too.
‐‐ Mary Berry

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colorful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith

My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
‐‐ Jack Black

My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

My parents were very supportive. They went to every show. And they never told me not to do what I was doing.
‐‐ Annette Bening

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.
‐‐ Lena Dunham

My parents were very unusual people, but it was more valuable to have other people say that than me.
‐‐ Brooke Hayward

My parents were very, very close; they pretty much grew up together. They were born in 1912. They were each other's only boyfriend and girlfriend. They were - to use a contemporary term I hate - co-dependent, and they had me very late. So they had their way of doing things, and they reinforced each other.
‐‐ Roz Chast

My parents were very, very, very strict.
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout

My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.
‐‐ Felicity Kendal

My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.
‐‐ Petra Stunt

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
‐‐ Patti Smith

My parents were what I like to call proper musical fans. Lots of Sondheim was played in the car.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.
‐‐ Donald Hall

My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape.
‐‐ Michelle Magorian

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston.
‐‐ Morgan Freeman

My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.
‐‐ Megan Follows

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.
‐‐ Morrissey

My parents were young and liberal and knew I was going to drink anyway, so they let me do it at home.
‐‐ Jessica Alba

My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about science and ran a grocery store in the neighborhood with my mother's help.
‐‐ Ada Yonath

My parents weren't actors or studio executives.
‐‐ Dwayne Johnson

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
‐‐ Carlos Slim

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.
‐‐ Bonnie Hammer

My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
‐‐ Jack Wagner

My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.
‐‐ Kate Bush

My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.
‐‐ Alicia Keys

My parents weren't religious at all. I remember the first time I heard about Jesus was at school.
‐‐ Bill Callahan

My parents weren't very sporty, and football wasn't part of my everyday life. I was never a massive football fan either, but, like everyone else, I used to watch matches on TV.
‐‐ Stanislas Wawrinka

My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on the fact that we were poor. They got me culture. They took me to museums. They showed art to me. They read to me. And my mother drove two hours a day to take me to University Elementary School.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

My parents wished peace upon their firstborn child.
‐‐ Shalom Harlow

My parents work long, long shifts during the week and even on the weekend.
‐‐ Chad Kelly

My parents worked in the art world. They were really supportive of my music in that they allowed me to drop out of school and move out of our home, which not many parents would do.
‐‐ Ed Sheeran

My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.
‐‐ Danny DeVito

My parents worry all the time because I trust people very easily.
‐‐ Deepika Padukone

My parents would always have us, as many times as we could, sit together for dinner and talk about what was happening in our lives, and so we created a great recipe where I could be completely honest with my mother and to an extent my father, being an attorney.
‐‐ Ryan Seacrest

My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
‐‐ Mallory Jansen