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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.


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CARL WEATHERS My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn&...
TOM WOLFE I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.
TOM SIZEMORE Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers....
JAMES EARL JONES My father worked on assembly lines in Detroit while I was growing up. Every day, I watched him do wh...
ANITA BAKER 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 I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphon...
BERNIE MAC My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he mad...
TOMMY LEE I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones t...
ALAINA HUFFMAN As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. M...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL My father left when I was really young, but he's still living. There are things I wish I'd s...
SARAH SHAHI I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON I used to dream about Gorbachev before he lost power. I'd go into a panic because I was meeting ...
HUGH GRANT He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa...
JUNE CARTER CASH But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man...
ZOSIA MAMET I starred in a Broadway play that was Sidney Poitier's first directing job and the cast was Lou ...
DAVID STEINBERG My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He...
MACAULAY CULKIN I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and ...
GERARD WAY I don't remember my father reading to me, but I remember him telling me bedtime stories. I got t...
CAROLINE KENNEDY I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe...
LAINIE KAZAN My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six ...
NATALIE MORALES I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero...
DAVE BRUBECK Before my father would open up a karate school in a particular neighborhood, he'd clean up the b...
LUPE FIASCO I got a lot of influence from my father, honestly. He'd take me in his car. I'd hear Carlos ...
ACTION BRONSON If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died a...
CHARLIE HUNNAM I'd never seen Rigondeaux's face without it being obscured by headgear or a photograph of Fi...
BRIN-JONATHAN BUTLER I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h...
DAN HILL My father believed a real man didn't read, and my parents hoped I'd get some sense and find ...
KEN BRUEN I saw a DJ from Germany called Sven Vath. I saw him in the club, he played for six hours and I was j...
TIESTO I eventually made the reunion with my father that I'd used as a default daydream throughout my c...
MONA SIMPSON My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat...
DONALD TRUMP I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree t...
FELICITY KENDAL My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.
EMINEM I watched my mother waste her life on housework and swore I'd never do that. Dave does the cooki...
SIOBHAN FAHEY I'm glad that's one of the things I chose to do as a man - to be a father to my child.
BIG BOI My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long...
SHERMAN ALEXIE My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? ...
JEFF MACNELLY I knew Quintessentially was a success when my father, who does a lot of business in Beirut, introduc...
BEN ELLIOT When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an h...
JO NESBO Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good togethe...
ESTHER WILLIAMS I had a growing career as a model and an actress in London - I had starred opposite Michael Caine an...
PERSIS KHAMBATTA Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And whe...
ERIC MCCORMACK I was at my father's office, and I'd be in the back of his office, building Lego skyscrapers...
ERIC TRUMP Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audience...
CHADWICK BOSEMAN I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.
RICHARD LLEWELLYN I look at my father. He is one of my heroes. He is such an incredible, classy man. He was such a gre...
EMMANUELLE CHRIQUI When I was young, I was obsessed with Michael Jordan and the Bulls. He's the only person I get s...
ELENA DELLE DONNE I'd love to do a film with Michael Fassbender. He's one of my heroes. I think he's absol...
JACK REYNOR My father was a certain kind of man - I saw how he treated my mother and his family and how he treat...
SIDNEY POITIER I was talking to my good friend Kid Rock a while ago, and he told me if I'd send him a helmet, h...
PEYTON MANNING My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd pa...
EDMUND WHITE I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Cha...
DARIUS RUCKER Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Ev...
PALOMA PICASSO My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days ...
XAVIER RUDD I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
PABLO PICASSO I started with Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee and Lou Gossett, Jr. and the rest of the wonderful cast o...
GLYNN TURMAN I watched so many movies when I was a kid, and I'd watch them over and over.
AARON TVEIT The model that I'd always seen as a little boy, as a teenager, as I watched other political care...
MARK TAKANO When I spent time with my father, it wasn't playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office ...
DONALD TRUMP, JR. I was born five days before D-Day in 1944. My father was a mechanical engineer, which was a reserved...
ROBERT POWELL As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life a...
GARRET DILLAHUNT A friend, Sean Cunningham, who went on to do 'Friday the 13th,' was given a small budget to ...
WES CRAVEN If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good...
ELTON JOHN My father was placid and easygoing. He owned a small shoe store where I helped out on Saturdays. I t...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON I don't think I've ever seen him in a movie theater! I've only seen him on TV. Wow, that...
JENNIFER GRANT My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY I was really proactive in trying to heal my family. I wouldn't give up. My whole life was about ...
SOPHIE B. HAWKINS Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people alway...
MARIAH CAREY When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I...
DICK VAN DYKE My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h...
GREGG ALLMAN As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven...
ALICE SEBOLD My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growin...
HUGH JACKMAN My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe...
JOHNNY CASH In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobil...
RADHANATH SWAMI My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware th...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on...
KRISTIN GORE The truth is, I'd never seen a Cary Grant film. Since then I have watched his stuff and it's...
HUGH GRANT I want people to say at the end of my day, you know, like I used to say about Sidney Poitier and Jam...
BERNIE MAC When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed ...
FRANK BUTLER A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise: But while one little nap he sn...
WILLIAM R. ALGER I remember watching 'A Streetcar Named Desire' when I was quite young, I was about 12, or 13...
ANEURIN BARNARD I was from a poor Jewish family in the South Bronx. My father was a plumber, but when I was 16, he g...
LEONARD SUSSKIND I've never seen 'The Goonies.' I've never seen 'Indiana Jones.' I watched &#...
ERIC ANDRE But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, h...
DAVID CARRADINE I loved the fact that he was a hardworking man, and I saw him all those years to be a great father a...
DEB MILLINGTON My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle p...
PAUL RYAN My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS I think I probably have the philosophy of a poor man. You know, like maybe I'd steal the pennies...
JOHN CASSAVETES I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through...
PAUL FARMER My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I ...
LAILA ALI My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd tak...
BERNARD L. SCHWARTZ I've watched 'Ringu' probably three or four times before writing the first draft of '...
EHREN KRUGER I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. ...
BARRY ZITO I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it...
NADINE VELAZQUEZ When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up....
NICOLAS ROEG I watched him and how much he enjoyed it. His success was probably a factor on my wanting to be a co...
WAYNE GRETZKY As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ...
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SIDNEY CROSBY Oh yeah. Definitely. It's going to be tough if [the Penguins] are not there in the playoffs, obvious...
SIDNEY CROSBY You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or yo...
SIDNEY SHELDON When you are playing from behind you start to panic sometimes and maybe take more penalties and you'...
SIDNEY CROSBY Someone saw my name on that (claim tag). They took a look inside and hit the jackpot.
SIDNEY CROSBY Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL If you're too awestruck, you get caught watching, you get caught being happy to be there and you're ...
SIDNEY CROSBY It's tough to play when you don't have the energy.
SIDNEY CROSBY I think to be great, you have to prove that you're the best year after year after year and show that...
SIDNEY CROSBY Oh yeah, I noticed it,
SIDNEY CROSBY It's a great accomplishment, and I'm definitely proud of it. By no means, coming into the season, di...
SIDNEY CROSBY They've been unbelievable. We've had some ups and downs -- probably a lot more downs -- and they've ...
SIDNEY CROSBY If I can contribute and help out, it feels good. It's nice, especially when stuff goes on.
SIDNEY CROSBY I realize there will not be another Gretzky, and I will be the first one to say I will not break his...
SIDNEY CROSBY Being a successful hockey player is overcoming when guys are shadowing you and out-thinking them. It...
SIDNEY CROSBY Going through this is a lot of adversity -- let's be honest, there is a little bit of pressure becau...
SIDNEY CROSBY When you go through a time like we have, you go to basics. Get the puck at the net and play simple h...
SIDNEY CROSBY I thought things went pretty well. I think I can play here and help the team. I just want to continu...
SIDNEY CROSBY I am definitely looking forward to getting on the ice every day and meeting the guys here.
SIDNEY CROSBY I think I did all right but I want to improve. I don't think I'm happy with being average in that de...
SIDNEY CROSBY I want to play as soon as possible, ... You want to play but I don't pick and choose. It's not my jo...
SIDNEY CROSBY That's the plan for now.
SIDNEY CROSBY I'm not trying to be the next Wayne Gretzky or Mario Lemieux, ... I am putting pressure on myself to...
SIDNEY CROSBY I looked forward to it for a long time. It feels awesome. Yeah, I was happy. It's something you drea...
SIDNEY CROSBY I'd love to have the opportunity to do that, ... Obviously I'm going to be a rookie, so I'm going to...
SIDNEY CROSBY There is a kind of crazy bravery about this guy.
SIDNEY LUMET