#pare

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#along #am #anyone #be prepared #become

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends. ↗

— Amber Tamblyn

#cultured #friends #introduced #lot #me

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#compare #else #i #myself #never

I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#anything #child #doing #films #friends

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#back #family #going #grew #i

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cell #fact #family #genes #grasses

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#deepest #had #hardest #i #losing

Memories particularly of when they weren’t being what parents are nine-tenths of the time, the taskmasters, the examples, the moral authorities, the nags of pick-that-up and you’re-going-to-be-late, keepers of the diary of her duties and routines, memories, rather, of when they found one another afresh, beyond the tensions between parental mastery and inept childish uncertainty, of those moments of respite in a family’s life when they could reach one another in calm ↗

— Philip Roth

#parenthood #family

We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#always #around #creative #creative people #dad

Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#awful #brutal #certain #certain time #definite