#rents

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#act #believe #creative #creative act #desecration

I distanced myself, relatively, from my parents for a year or so in my late twenties. It was necessary for me to feel my autonomy. Other than that brief gap, we have always been a very close family. ↗

— Jennifer Ehle

#autonomy #been #brief #close #family

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents. ↗

— John Engler

#creation #expand #limit #new #ought

My parents wanted me to grow up around horses and open spaces. ↗

— Schuyler Fisk

#grow #grow up #horses #me #open

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago. ↗

— Claire Forlani

#berkeley #british #four #italian #live

exemplar, n. It's always something we have to negotiate- the face that my parents are happy, and yours have never been. I have something to live up to, and if I fail, I still have a family to welcome me home. You have a storyline to rewrite, and a lack of faith that it can ever be done. You love my parents, I know. But you never get too close. You never truly believe there aren't bad secrets underneath. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #parents #relationships #faith

I am hoping, though, that many of them have kids, who, when they have a moment to take a break from their iPods, Internet, or Google, will explain to their parents running the country just how the world is being flattened. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#being #break #country #explain #flattened

As long as she is talented enough and passionate about doing it herself then I will be happy and support her. I think I will be sensible - my parents said I could only do it if I got my education and so I had something to fall back on. ↗

— Anna Friel

#back #be happy #could #doing #education

I know there are parents who are very structured and organized and are certainly far more together than I am, it's just not me. ↗

— Soleil Moon Frye

#certainly #far #i #i am #just

When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004. ↗

— Emma Stone

#gave #hollywood #i #into #invited