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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 parents didn't really know one another."
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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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"Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again."
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"When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them."
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"My biggest musical influences are probably my parents."
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"Between them, my parents had 10 marriages."
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"I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
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"Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways."
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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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"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
"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
"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
"Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your 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
"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
"The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence."
Leadership
"So now my road map has changed and I don't have a really clear idea of what the next stops are."
Idea
"I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself."
Parents
"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
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