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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Parents, Respect, Will

"Grilling outside with my parents at the Jersey shore. We would grill lobster and corn in the summer."

Bobby Flay, American Celebrity

Parents, Summer

"Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it."

Haim Ginott, Israeli Psychologist

Parents, Talk

"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."

Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist

Parents, Schools, Today, World

"Between them, my parents had 10 marriages."

Lorna Luft, American Actress

Parents,

"My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma."

Franz Boas, American Scientist

Parents,

"When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat."

Marilu Henner, American Actress

Parents, Reward

"We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory."

Jeffrey Hunter, American Actor

Parents,

"I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking."

Margaret Spellings, American Public Servant

Parents,

"I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces."

Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian Musician

Parents, Pretty

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"Then in college I became obsessed with film, and wanted to be part of that."

College

"I didn't have a teacher like Sister Mary Ignatius."

Sister

"Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job."

Act

"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."

Theatre

"Laughter can bring a new perspective."

Laughter

"Since it's based on my parents, it's more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them."

Funny

"My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply."

Mother

"My parents didn't really know one another."

Parents

"When my parents separated, I was very grateful."

Parents