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		Gina and Susie were cool, though. No hint of the beer they said they were going to score. They played good girls to my parents. Not that they weren't good girls. That's exactly what they were: good girls who wanted to pretend they were bad girls but who never would be bad girls because they were too decent.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Benjamin Alire Saenz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Nat Wolff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Katee Sackhoff 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Abbie Cornish 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zubin Mehta 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had to get over a Southern accent and go through a lot of obstacles. But I love my job, and I love what I do. If it's something that your parents are pushing you into, it's never going to be rewarding. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Taylor Spreitler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		As I've gotten older, I've realized my true models are my parents. My mom is like a sheroe. My dad is so strong. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zendaya 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maika Monroe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Warren Spector 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The middle years, caught between children and parents, free of neither: the past stretches back too densely, it is too thickly populated, the future has not yet thinned out. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Margaret Drabble 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Moms get their fair share of conflicting advice, with a heaping of unsolicited advice. Parents debate the pros/cons of different types of disposable diapers, whether the supposed carcinogens in Johnson & Johnson baby products hurt their kids who used it, which method of sleep training to use. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Christine Tsai 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Children now expect their parents to audition for approval. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mason Cooley 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Joe Bastianich 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Darren Criss 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Where was the closure for Michael Brown's parents? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marcia Fudge 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didn't always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, 'You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we haven't thought of yet.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ally Condie 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Every successful artist comes from a family - parents or siblings or both - who, although equally gifted, chose not to pursue the treacherous and difficult path of the artist. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Chris Abani 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have never behaved like a star kid, and since a lot of people in the Tamil and Malayalam film industries know my parents, they treat me like their own child. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Keerthy Suresh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic,' that they would love me more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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