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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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"On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people."
Change
"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
"The way I see it, I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by."
Waiting
"Years ago women of my size were considered royalty."
Woman
"The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me."
Love
"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
"Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it."
Life
"It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way."
Dream
"Isn't it amazing how celebrity status preempts even the most ingrained hatreds?"
Celebrity
"My parents have always been offended by my weight, embarrassed maybe. It didn't fit with their sensibilities."
Parents
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