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ALAN C. GREENBERG
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha...
CHRIS ISAAK When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer ha...
TERRY J. LUNDGREN
So I saw that there was only me. There was only me who could worry about what was happening here, in... MARKUS ZUSAK Although my mother was her own person during their marriage, she loved and respected our father. The...
BEATRICE E. MORRISON
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY
My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were... PAUL THEROUX When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he ...
ANDREW LUCK My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poet...
DYLAN WALSH Clive was the man who had won a World Cup, he had the experience and I was there to back him up and ...
BRIAN O'DRISCOLL My father, who was a doctor, died of pancreatic cancer. But he was clear about what he wanted done a...
CARLOS GOMEZ My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre...
RAM KAPOOR
That was the strange thing - I didn't hate my father. He had wanted something. Like I wanted Suzanne... EMMA CLINE
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the neare... IRENE ROSENFELD These kids had no confidence. They had very little self-esteem. We just wanted to give ourselves a c...
DANNY ROCCO I think that's when he came into his own. He found out who he was, and he opened up more to us kids....
DAWN BUTLER
I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror t... LANCE GROSS I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted...
FREYA NORTH My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ...
MARK BILLINGHAM
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he want... RODNEY DANGERFIELD
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL
The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was tha... J.K. ROWLING He just wanted to talk about the day each one of us had. What I did, what he did.
BILLY DONOVAN What I always said about Al was that he had a rough exterior, but inside he was a big teddy bear. He...
MARK BRANGER
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the ... TINA TURNER
He had a passion for democracy, for people to make informed decisions so they can think critically, ... ANN DRUYAN I think he validated what he did the race before. I had the impression that he wanted to run on turf...
DARRELL VIENNA I know contract offers were exchanged, and they probably couldn't foresee themselves coming to terms...
MARK KOTSAY
My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't... BOB DYLAN I was completely shattered. I couldn't think clearly. When something like that happens to you, you a...
WALTER MAYER
Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had ar... JAMIE FORD As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th...
SUNIL MITTAL We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be...
DAVID LAGERCRANTZ
My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never... BRAD PITT
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from ... TINA TURNER
If that child dreaming by the wireless had been asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, what I h... JOHN BANVILLE
My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he h... STEPHEN KING He said that the man that they had been questioning admitted what he had done and he took my daughte...
ANGELA BRYANT What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, a...
TOM GOLISANO He was world class. I think we knew that Chelsea were gearing up for this game after they had been s...
ALAN PARDEW
I didn't think he was in love with me and I had no idea what I felt for him, but he wanted me, and m... LEIGH BARDUGO
He had quickly happened upon the truth which many lonely contemporaries would never discover, the tr... STEPHEN FRY With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t...
JACQUES VILLENEUVE My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in...
NORMAN LAMM My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life ver...
DIANA QUICK
What was critical to my father was that we not "go into government". His father and mother had both ... PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
My father thought of America as the last best hope for humanity. He believed we had a historical mis... ROBERT KENNEDY, JR. His whole goal in life was to never repeat what had happened to him early on. He wanted above all to...
EDWARD ROMERO Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make. The nice...
LETA GANDOLFINI Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make, ... The ...
JAMES GANDOLFINI He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS
But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search wi... ORHAN PAMUK They wanted someone there to talk to, someone who would listen to them. The other refugees - they ha...
DANNY LEBLANC
If I had been born in the medieval times, my subjective union with God and the Universe would have e... ABHIJIT NASKAR I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE
What he wanted above all to get right was the web of relationships a dozen column inches had never b... GARTH RISK HALLBERG
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father fi... FRANK GIFFORD
Like all men with a faculty that surpasses human requirements, his father was very nervous. Then, to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry an... MARY BARRA
It was as though he had secrets, and he wanted you to know he would keep them for the pleasure of de... THOMM QUACKENBUSH Really began realizing how precious life was, how short the clock was, he had not done what he wante...
TIM ALBRIGHT For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own exper...
MELVIN CALVIN He was there to serve his country and to keep his family and country safe. It was what he wanted to ...
MARGARET LEVENS My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...
MICHAEL HANEKE
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and cal... CHELSEA HANDLER
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER In terms of fashion, I think the biggest influence that I had was my father. My pops, he was really ...
DANNY BROWN
I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie... MARTHA STEWART My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...
CHUCK CLOSE
They were talking more distantly than if they were strangers who had just met, for if they had been ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He gave what America was looking for. He gave us what we wanted, but I think it's that, we got what ...
DEMETRIUS WILLIAMS
The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father ... CHELSEA CLINTON
Bill Phillips was this nervous, chain-smoking student. He had signed up to be an engineer, he had go... TIM HARFORD He was a two-way great. He was a leader and a captain for us. He had the natural ability to play any...
DICK SCHAFRATH I watched the black ocean in his eyes and saw this flash behind them and understood what he had mean...
T.J. KLUNE He saw young children out in the cold. Their only crime was they wanted to see their father.
BILL MAER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my f... KATE DICAMILLO
I grew up trying to be like my idols, and one of the main people in my life was my father. He played... CAM NEWTON
We gave everybody what they wanted to see. He gave it his all and I gave it my all. One of us had to... LEBRON JAMES Mick was a good athlete. A 50-year-old guy looking at Mick had to love him. He was living the life t...
BOB SCOTT I think coaches with kids of their own understand that when a young man comes here to Auburn, I am t...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE He was held there for a couple of months. Every day an officer would come onto the field with a loud...
EDMUNDO BOUDON
And Edward was surprised to discover that he was listening. Before, when Abilene had talked to him, ... KATE DICAMILLO He gave me a hug and said he appreciated the visitors. He had a smile on his face, but he was devast...
DARLEEN SIMONSEN
I know it sounds trite but I wanted to make a difference. Political debates with my father had been ... VINCE CABLE When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for pres...
ANNE COX CHAMBERS The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest ma...
WAGNER MOURA My dad was an artist in his own right and had a studio in our basement when I was a kid. My twin sis...
JACQUELYN SINGER My mother approved, my father just didn't accept the idea of my being an actor. I think that's the r...
JAMES STEWART He was excited all week about coming. He likes the opportunity to talk to these kids because he's be...
JACOB TAMME Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had ...
SAFFRON ALDRIDGE All I knew is he was wanted by the Marine Corps and had been for a substantial amount of time. His r...
G.R. GRAY
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book ... ROBERT FISK My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what am...
JAMES GREEN SOMERVILLE
My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve... SAM SHEPARD
A number of us had conversations with the Kerry campaign about what he was going to say about CAFE. ... JENNIFER GRANHOLM
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. 
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. 
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: on... 