Rain Phoenix Quotes
It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.
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Quotes to Explore
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
P. L. Travers
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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
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After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.
Barbara Kingsolver
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal, and it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents.
Natasha Trethewey
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
Laura Linney
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My parents always supported me and complimented me on other things, not just my looks. They told me I was capable, that I was smart, that I was creative.
Paloma Elsesser
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
BeBe Winans
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
J. K. Simmons
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We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.
Randi Weingarten
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
Questlove
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I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.
Natalie Cole
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
Usain Bolt
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Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
Harold E. Varmus
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What I'm trying to do, and my policy, is to disassociate, to shy away from what's going on in Syria.
Najib Mikati
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Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.
Deepak Chopra
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We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.
Christiane Amanpour
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It was clear to my parents that I had the gift of voice, and they encouraged me to pursue it.
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