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My parents have been with me every step of the way.
I was obsessive and made my parents take me to the hairdressers way more often than I needed to.
I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.
Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
Kids in school told me my parents had accents, but I had no idea; they've always sounded that way to me.
I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.
My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to write, actually.
My parents introduced me to 'SNL,' Monty Python, and Richard Pryor probably way earlier than they had any right to.
My parents never raised their hand or fired me. Their way of disciplining me was to tell me what is right or wrong.
My parents brought me up to speak the way I speak, to hold my head up high, to know wrong from right and to have manners.
My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
I'm a big traveler these days. I was in Hong Kong. I live there. I was just in Belgium with my parents and now I'm on my way to North America. You will find me all over.
My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
I can't say that I've ever tried to hurt someone or humiliate them intentionally. My parents raised me to always be the bigger person or to treat others the way you want to be treated.
I started karate in middle school when my parents wanted me to babysit my younger brother. He was a little troublemaker, so they wanted me to make sure the class was going okay. I ended up being way more into it than my brother.
My parents went out of their way for me ever since I left school. When I was 15, I said to Mum, 'I'm leaving school,' and she was like, 'Okay.' I joined a cover band and played three nights a week, and they were really supportive of that.
The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up, by these English schools I went to. So I've always felt this kind of anti-authoritarian strain in me, pushing to express itself despite the obstacles.
My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and then they encouraged whatever that may be. When I started sharing a keen interest in drama and the theater, instead of steering me away from it, they encouraged me to see plays and think about drama school.
As a child, I felt that the Indian part of me was unacknowledged, and therefore somehow negated, by my American environment and vice versa. Growing up, I was impatient with my parents for being so different, holding on to India the way they did, and always making me feel like I had to make a choice of which way I would go.