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"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself."
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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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"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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"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 all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."
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"I was also interested in chemistry, but my parents were not willing to buy me a chemistry set."
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"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself."
Parents
"And since I just turned 32, I'm thinking about getting married, having a family, and that's very difficult to do on the road as a correspondent."
Family
"I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life."
Life
"But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice."
Time
"Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life."
Life
"What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents."
Dream
"So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are."
Idea
"In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it challenges my faith. I still can't say that I totally understand why - why that is allowed to happen."
Faith
"But there's always a Mass. It's not a formal Mass at all. We're sitting around her dining room table with wine and Eucharist and holding hands. It's very informal and small, but to me that's a wonderful way to have Mass."
Wine
"As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it."
Survival
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