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The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was not allowed to be photographed with a cigarette, a drink, a cup of coffee or even a glass of water because someone might think it was liquor. When I left the studio I was already married and had two children, but I felt as sad as a child leaving home for the first time.

- June Allyson

College is such a unique time because you`re learning a little bit how to be an adult. You`re learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you`re exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn`t even know how to think until I got to college." - On the importance of a college education

- Anne Hathaway

College is such a unique time because you`re learning a little bit how to be an adult. You`re learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you`re exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn`t even know how to think until I got to college. - On the importance of a college education.

- Anne Hathaway

It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn`t think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it`s very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

- Twyla Tharp

Relationships are so much a rerun of our parental relationships. We`re rerunning the relationship they were in together and we`re rerunning the relationship we had with them with our lover.

- Kenny Loggins

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

- Julius Erving

Another excellent year, illustrating the hard work, commitment and motivation of our students, together with excellent teaching and guidance from staff and strong parental staff.

- Elizabeth Ward

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

- Al Weed
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

- Alex Culbertson

THE parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

- Andrew McCormick

(Describing the Monday ruling as a) victory for parental rights, ... This decision does not sound the death knell of grandparent visitation. ... I don`t think this is going to have a large impact on other states, who have safeguards built to protect fit parents.

- Angela King

The whole thing boils down to parental responsibility.

- Anirban Das

The financial side of it is pleasant of course, but that is not the main reason for me leaving my parental home in Balen. I would like to lead a bit of a normal life again. It will be nice to walk down the street without people staring at me. Every day there`s a dozen of interested fans at my front door; it`s getting too much. I`m getting a bit fed up with having to tell the same story twenty times a day to people I don`t know at all, or having to listen to their stories. Monaco will be a better place for me to train also, in winter I often don`t have the courage to go out in the bad weather, in the South training will be easier.

- Ann Oakley