Steve Carr Quotes

There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.

Steve Carr

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• The good news is that parents are the leading influence on kids' decision not to drink alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I may have managed to build a successful technology startup that had gone public by the time my three kids hit their 13th birthdays, but don't think that bought my wife and me any special respect from our teenagers.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Time
  • May
  • Kids

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Believe
  • Kids
  • Fashion

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Kids

• The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Life
  • Love
  • Kids

• When I'm writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids haven't left me.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Kids

• I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Kind

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• An ideal day for me is a combination of a fun-exciting creative moment with work partners, some laughs and games with my kids, a good surf session, and great conversation with friends around a meal.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • School
  • Films

• The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Money
  • Kids
  • Ridiculous

• Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Important
  • Kids

• Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Parents
  • Wish
  • Fall

• When it comes down to helping kids, a lot of ways for education to move forward is through music because that's exciting to kids. Reading books and going to a bookstore is not that exciting.

  

  Diplo
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Education

• For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Life
  • Parents

• My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to the ups and downs of a writer's life.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Job
  • Kids

• I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Kids

• My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67.

  

  Patti Smith
  • World
  • Job
  • Parents

• Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Man
  • Beginning
  • Sports

• When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Dream
  • Single

• But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • World
  • Reading
  • Spirit

• There are a lot of films that come out for kids, and the parents have to suffer through it.

  

  Steve Carr
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Films