Jewell Parker Rhodes Quotes

I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

• Good
• Children
• Parents
• Relationship
• Identity
• Anxiety
• Rebel

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

  

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

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• I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.

  

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• Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.

  

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• A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

  

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• I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.

  

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• There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

  

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• The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.

  

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• Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.

  

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• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  

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• If I read something and respond to the role, that's what happens, and if those happen to be a few comedies in a row, or not, so be it.

  

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• I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents