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TOM GLAZER I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
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STAFFAN KRONWALL
One day when I was 8 years old, everyone was talking in hushed tones about a great scientist that ha... MICHIO KAKU
I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results ... JOSE MOURINHO
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. DONALD JOHANSON
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M... KIRAN DESAI My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.
DAVID AYER
I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led... ALEX HONNOLD
My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ... BRIAN BLESSED Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had...
W. AVERELL HARRIMAN When I learned that, I knew it was a sign that he was OK and happy and had died doing what he loved.
IDA TINGUELY
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing mo...
AMY LICHTENHAN
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
GEORGE KENNEDY I will always remember the day I got old. It was the day my daughter died.
IRV SLOSBERG He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart...
CRAIG REID
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM Dad was in position with having to move on. He and Hatfield struck up a relationship, had a lot of t...
JEFF PHILLIPS
See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next day.... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he wh...
BIBLE
My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid... TOM HOOPER
Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me...
PAM FERRIS I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ...
RAMON MAGSAYSAY
I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack ... JOHN LYDON
I always liked Elvis Presley when I was younger - I told anyone who would listen that I was going to... ISLA FISHER I called every day to see how he was and finally I called the hospitals here and found out he had di...
JOSE LLAMAS I think Marty was really surprised. He had been complaining all day that nobody had called about his...
SHIRLEY JONES I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore y...
BERNIE MAC
My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now... LARRY KING He came in my office one day and had this sheepish look on his face, like there was something on his...
JEFF PYLE
My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parent... BEVERLY SILLS I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an...
CAROLYN BYERS RUCH
I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I didn't know what kind of creature I was supposed to be until I woke on a hospital cot and was info...
HANNAH ASHWORTH I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN He was signing a lot of autographs and doing a lot of interviews. But when he finally came out of th...
KEVIN KELLY Do you know what I remember? When [my father] read to me. Stupid things, dragons and heroes. He woul...
AVELINE VALEN
He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, lear... GARTH STEIN My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, wa...
MICHAEL ASHCROFT I was a little bit scared at first. I was in my 30s when I originally sang those numbers. Now, I am ...
ASHA BHOSLE It's unlikely. From what was said the day he died, that he was found lifeless, it looked very much l...
LEO BOKERIA It is my biggest dream in life to visit his tomb. I was happy to hear he died so he can go and visit...
HENRY ADAMCZYK Concluding his lackluster effort, he told me the irony was that his fame would come after he died. I...
ALAN ROBERT NEAL
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL
I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car. STEVEN WRIGHT When I was a teenager, my stern and meticulous father, whom I regarded as well-spirited of his disce...
JECON B. NADELA He just said he was so sorry that he had that on his record. He just wanted to clear his record befo...
FRANKIE HARRIS My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.'...
SARAH KOENIG My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS It's kind of crazy I did it on this day. That's the day he died. When I saw the date coming -- each ...
JAWAN CARTER Three days after my brother died, my father was in the hospital. He just did not want to live anymor...
MARC FORSTER
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa... RAM SHRIRAM My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recor...
TOM GLAZER I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.
WILFRID SHEED
Alan Greenspan once said to me . . . that he was really upset that when our Fed chairman died, nobod... BRADLEY WHITFORD I was really devastated. I had planned on going to the hospital that day to visit my daughter, and w...
GEORGE LENNOX He was simply a man ahead of his time. He was the second of two men I knew who never had any prejudi...
BUCK O'NEIL
Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-... RUSSELL BAKER He told me that his father was in hospital after having a heart attack and the only way he could com...
IAN ROWLANDS
I liked everything I read about Braddock, ... I liked who he was before he was a champion, who he wa... RUSSELL CROWE
He would bet good money that the Wyrdstone collar was for the king's own son--and he prayed that the... SARAH J. MAAS
I got my first guitar when I was nine because I wanted to be the fifth Beatle, even though they had ... TIG NOTARO
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonst... BEN BERNANKE My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR Back when he was 8 years old, they had a 90-day visa on him and his grandfather didn't do anything a...
ASHLEY PAINTER
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte... SAM HOUSTON I had one day with him, and he was asleep in the scene, but I told my entire family that I was in a ...
ROSE LESLIE
My very best friend died in a car accident when I was 16 years old. That was the hardest blow emotio... AMBER HEARD
While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucil... BILL MURRAY I come from a blue-collar family. My father worked at the American Can Company as a mechanic. He bro...
JOSEPH ABBOUD The day [ Darrell died] was the 9/11 of rock. A little of us died that day, too.
DAVID DRAIMAN It was shocking because his mother called me and told me he was in a terrible accident. I didn't kno...
LEE FISHER
I was around when my father finished the last payment of his house. I remember like it was yesterday... MAGIC JOHNSON My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especia...
DEVAL PATRICK When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I ...
JEFFREY SKOLL
He died as he lived: working always for the greater good and, to his last hour, as willing to stretc... J.K. ROWLING
Robert Sandler is a child who died when he was three years old, and he is a child who was the first ... SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though... ROBIN WILLIAMS
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after... KEVIN KWAN I was lying next to my poorly son in hospital when he phoned and told me what had been going on. I d...
CAROLINE WAUGH
I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never... NATHANIEL KAHN I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the...
RANDY BACHMAN My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because...
BRUCE FORSYTH I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did mo...
ROBERT H. GRUBBS
When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my moth... MR. T I turned 30 as a janitor. I was thinking at the time that Hank Williams died when he was 29. All my ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON My brother died at age 42 of a heart problem. My mother had had a stroke. I took a look at what was ...
MAUREEN KENNEDY When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.
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LYNN RICH My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done a...
CARLOS GOMEZ
It was about 25 years ago that he came to see me play in a bar and had the audacity to say 'I'm gonn... JON BON JOVI
I had a fairly enlightened dad, though if you looked at his resume, it might not seem that way. He w... HUGH JACKMAN I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my gra...
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