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"And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on."
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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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"If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully."
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"When my parents separated, I was very grateful."
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"I haven't actually spoken to my parents since the hurricane."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents."
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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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"My parents didn't really know one another."
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"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."
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"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
Mathematics
"They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports."
Sports
"I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel."
Travel
"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
Parents
"There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library."
Home
"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."
Parents
"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants."
Work
"My parents were determined to move into the middle class."
Class
"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
Children
"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."
Books
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