Amanda Ripley Quotes

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

Amanda Ripley

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• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Parents
  • Movement
  • Students

• My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Father
  • Parents

• We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Serious

• My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Parents
  • Listen

• My parents landed in Calgary in December 1974, straight from Nairobi. They were immigrants, like many people coming to build a better life. My mom was five months pregnant with me when they landed.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Life
  • Parents

• When I was a senior, I got accepted into the Julliard School for Dance, but ultimately decided to move to L.A. to act, so that was a fun conversation with the parents. I truly have some of the greatest parents ever.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • School
  • Fun
  • Parents

• I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Parents
  • Wife
  • Loved

• My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Life
  • Parents
  • My Life

• I grew up in a funeral home. Both my parents were morticians.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Home
  • Parents

• I don't really remember the day we lost our home in the floods, but looking back I can understand how devastating it was for my parents. I was only six, so I remember us having to move to Adelaide - but not much of the actual day and night of the flood. We had to start all over again and my parents opened a cafe.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Night

• My parents didn't have any money.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Any

• I think both of my parents are unique in the way they don't live their lives as celebrities. They're both artists, first and foremost. My mom lives a very private life. So does my father. You don't really see them in the tabloids or anything like that. I think that's definitely a decision you can make.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Life
  • Live
  • Father

• Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.

  

  Raj Kapoor
  • Parents
  • Small
  • Company

• A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Good
  • God
  • Parents

• I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• In healthy families, children discover (through being listened to) that what they have to say is important and that their experiences and ideas (and they themselves) have worth. They are encouraged to think for themselves, express opinions, and make decisions for themselves. Parents supporting them in standing on their own two feet and doing what they think is right. Trusting and gaining confidence in themselves, they develop an inner locus of control.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Important
  • Children
  • Parents

• Today, music is visual.

  

  Archie Shepp
  • Music
  • Today

• I care about the work I do. But I'm not going to say that money's not an issue.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Work
  • Money

• She would simply wait on the bridge, calm and obstinate, until events, real events, not her own fantasies, roe to her challenge, and dispelled her insignificance.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Real
  • She
  • Challenge

• Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

  

  Amanda Ripley
  • Parents
  • Coaches
  • Cheerleaders