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My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied wit... TA-NEHISI COATES
Rose? Is that you?" I peered behind him. Lissa. "What are you doing here?""What are you doing ...
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It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating a... PHILIP ROTH
I certainly like the rumour that I was the father of Elizabeth Hurley's baby. It made me think I... MATTHEW PERRY I was confident it would end without anyone being killed. I could tell that the negotiations were ge...
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I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt t... DONNA MILLS
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt t... DONNA MILLS
There were so many versions out there, and he (Roosevelt) was bothered by it. He asked my father to ... FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
I knew what my father, more than anything else, wanted me to do. Seventeen, vain, and spoiled by poe... JAMES SALTER
I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job. RALPH BAKSHI My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done a...
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My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on th... CALVIN COOLIDGE My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wond...
MAIRA KALMAN That was the most eerie feeling that I ever had in my life. He had it set up for bondage. There were...
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I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you sa... THOMAS MERTON
I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or... QUEEN VICTORIA You’re doing it again,” he said.
“Doing what?” I asked, wondering if I had done somethi...
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VASH YOUNG I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing ...
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Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena. My father was an admirer of Adlai S... GEORGE TAKEI An exchange is a transaction in which the two contracting parties both gain. Whenever I make an exch...
ANTOINE DESTUTT DE TRACY [On the outside, Anderson remained unsurprised. A few months ago he had crossed paths with the teena...
JERRY ANDERSON Nikki (Garrett) was my inspiration. She told me before that final at bat it didn't matter what I had...
AMY HALE I still remember how my father used to wake me up at 4 A.M. and make me study. He also used to take ...
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My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical i... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ...
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He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment."Which one is that?" I...
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There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl w... CHARLES DICKENS I heard the crowd. I couldn't tell if they were for me or not. It's not a win but I consider it a wi...
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Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard again... THOMAS HARDY
Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces... JANE AUSTEN
Plenty of patrons had asked me strange things, but this was the first who asked me where my car was ... SCOTT DOUGLAS You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
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As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off th... BILL BRYSON
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There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influ... QUEEN LATIFAH Those were the terms under which a musician was successful. And he could see that I was not there, n...
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Angela had done a marvelous job, I tell you. The puke was everywhere except the toilet. The walls, t... NICHOLAS SPARKS
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My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing thes... LEO TOLSTOY When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
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I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet. Wha... LEO TOLSTOY
My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He... MACAULAY CULKIN He got smart with me and my son, when we were up there. He asked my son why he was there?
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Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was neces... JANE AUSTEN
My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. DENIS LEARY I am glad he smells what the goverment is shoveling, ... This is disgusting what they are to doing t...
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Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing w... NANCY KERRIGAN
In fact, his travelogues spend amazingly little time discussing his blindness. Only one passage stan... SAM KEAN With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
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The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, ...
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