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"My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities."
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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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"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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"We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory."
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"I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice."
People
"For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps."
Peace
"Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?"
Celebrity
"I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf."
People
"Almost everything I do is related to being fat."
Being
"I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people."
Life
"When it comes to boys and her weight, I think Ellenor is much more conservative than I am, and she has not had the dialogue I have had about my weight."
Boys
"I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended."
Play
"I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to."
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"Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old."
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