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"My parents didn't really know one another."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
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"Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication."
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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
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"It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents."
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"Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind."
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"My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma."
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
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"The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world."
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"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
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"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."
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"My parents didn't really know one another."
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"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."
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"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."
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"When my parents separated, I was very grateful."
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"Laughter can bring a new perspective."
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"Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that."
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"I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius."
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