Quotes about "Parenting in Digital Age"

I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially. ”

We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society. ”

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this. ”

Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself. ”

I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started. ”

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them. ”

Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more. ”

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans. ”

I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away. ”

My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance. ”