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I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learned that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.

Learn Violence Culture Sheer
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My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

Instilled Parents Sense Condition
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I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium.

Relationship Parents Lithium Great
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I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.
Good Work Parents Influence
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They’re the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Parents Backbone Still Group
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I've always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I've heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

Able About Always Anything
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Lagos style is fresh and different. Even with the tailors, they get very innovative with their stuff, with the cuts. When my parents used to make the traditional wares, it was a little bit baggy. But now the tailors are able to infuse the European style, making it slim-fit. Lagos style is different, man. Innovative.

Able Baggy Bit Cuts
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I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me.

Born Central Divorced Grandparents
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The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

Classmates Flinch Gesture Afraid
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My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7.

About Been Ever Me
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Change Childhood Fact Father
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My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

Actor Director Going He
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A simple summary of my life is that my parents worked very hard so that I could have a great education, and I took that education and worked very hard to get where I am. I would like my kids' lives to be exactly the same.

Am Could Education Exactly
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

Culture Defined Doubts Ever
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My parents elected me president of the family when I was 4. We actually had an election every year, and I always won. I'm an only child, and I could count on my mother's vote.

Actually Always Child Could
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me.

Affected Change Divorce Important
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This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

Believed Could Deeply Enjoyed
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But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

Background Had Neat Parents
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My parents have raised me and my three siblings to be aware of the privilege we have been afforded and the responsibility it brings.

Afforded Aware Been Brings
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.

American Experiences Individuals Parents
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Always Found Kid Lot
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I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

Bath Could Hated Me
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I wish to thank my parents for making it all possible... and I wish to thank my children for making it necessary.

Children Making Necessary Parents
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

Afraid Dialogue Eight Going
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I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

Background Come Even Ever
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I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely tolerant of my inordinate love for animals.

Animals Garden Grew House
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I was born in my parents' bedroom on January 16. The World Almanac says it was 1909. I say it was 1912. But what difference does it make as long as I feel 33?

Bedroom Born Difference Does
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.

Proud Heavy Fast Enough
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

Artistic Came Did Ever
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I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
Cursing Felt Grew Lot
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Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

Actor Around Business Comedians
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My parents are Dominican. I would always go to the Dominican Republic, and I fell in love with Bachata, which comes from the Dominican Republic.

Always Dominican Republic Fell Go
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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.

After Poisonous Bible Was
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'

All Day Back Because Business
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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Artistic Arts Began Candle
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I don't know where my parents got my name. I'm sure they saw it in a movie, maybe.

Got Know Maybe Movie
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According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

According Aspect Between Dad
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My parents were really strict about me not watching cartoons.
About Cartoons Me Parents
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In the Fifties, my parents were known as 'America's sweethearts'. Their pictures graced the covers of all the newspapers. They were the Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston of their day.

America Brad Brad Pitt Covers
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My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

Attention Audience Blood Competition
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Unlike most divorces, where the children were usually the first to know, my parents were very good about keeping that a secret.

Divorces Children Usually Know
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I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.

Advice Always Because Best
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Amusing Backgrounds Been Both
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My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

Own Parents Restaurant
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I thank my parents, they did the best, they gave me that one thing that any parent can give their child, which is education. When you have that, whatever you decide to do in life, you’re secured.

Thank Parent Child Education
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I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

Because Energy Enthusiasm Even
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When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.

My parent Believe God Religion
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My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40.

Backbone Group Only Parents
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My parents never looked at my acting as a career. They saw it as a way to help provide for the household.

Acting Career Help Household
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My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

Away Father Few Life
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