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We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.

— Bethany Hamilton

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

We need to be around our families not because we have so many shared experiences to talk about, but instead because they know precisely which subjects to avoid.

— Douglas Coupland

Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.

— James Merrill

My parents didn't really know one another.

— Christopher Durang

You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.

— Patricia Richardson

My family is probably too involved in my life because they are my best friends, but I love that.

— Blake Lively

My parents split up when I was young, and they are still good friends. I think it's often projected that these things have to be so acrimonious. It's so often not the case.

— Miranda Otto

I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things.

— Naomi Scott

My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about.

— Anita Hill

✗Opposing Perspectives

I most earnestly advise you, again and again, love, honor, and obey your parents. Friends like them, you need not expect to find in this world.

— Elijah Parish Lovejoy

I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.

— Jason Earles