Quote by Rainn Wilson

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in a houseboat. My dad wrote science fiction novels and painted big murals and oil paintings.

I had bohemian parents in Seattle in the last '60s living in

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This quote provides a brief explanation of the speaker's background and upbringing. The speaker describes having bohemian parents who lived in Seattle during the late 1960s on a houseboat. Their father was a writer of science fiction novels and also an artist who worked on large-scale murals and oil paintings.

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