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My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.
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My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
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My parents taught me many of the things that people need in life to feel confident: practical things, such as managing finances, mucking out the goat barn, cleaning a house, doing repairs, mending a broken roof or a toilet.
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My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.
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My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.
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My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.
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My parents were divorced when I was young. I was really brought up by my mother's side of the family.
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My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
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My parents were out of town and sent me to stay at my grandma's house. That's where I learned how to make pancakes. I served them to all the old ladies who lived on her block. After the meal, they each left a $5 bill next to their plates. I thought, 'Hey, I'm onto something here.'
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My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
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My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.
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My parents were supportive. I didn't have good grades, but they could tell I wasn't lazy.
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My parents were the traditional Filipino parents who didn't talk about money around the dinner table.
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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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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.
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My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.
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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by love.
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Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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