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I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h...
JAMES ROUSE 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![]()
My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not f...
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RAHUL GANDHI![]()
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference ...
WILLIAM JAMES![]()
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat...
JOAN LINGARD![]()
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M...
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My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my...
HENRY FORD When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN![]()
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatev...
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MAX HARMS![]()
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'...
LAILA ALI![]()
I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different p...
BRANDON LEE My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m...
BRIAN COX 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![]()
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep...
ROBERT WINSTON![]()
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d...
VICTOR BORGE![]()
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f...
INDIRA GANDHI![]()
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, ...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.
DAVID AYER My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR![]()
My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural...
NATHANIEL KAHN![]()
This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H...
MELINA MARCHETTA My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER![]()
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ...
WALTER DEAN MYERS![]()
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father....
JIM HARRISON I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.
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I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ...
ROBERTO BENIGNI My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT![]()
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
DONALD JOHANSON When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one b...
STEPHEN FURST![]()
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland...
JOHN C. HAWKES![]()
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband...
ORLANDO BLOOM I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, whi...
T. J. THYNE Unless you allow yourself to seek your inner depths; the surfacial affairs of life shall always engr...
DINESH KUMAR I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ...
IRA LEVIN At different stages of my life I made different mistakes, at times costly ones. But I never for once...
OLASOT![]()
I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what ...
KAZUO ISHIGURO![]()
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad...
PETE SEEGER![]()
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef...
ROBERTO BENIGNI![]()
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis....
STUART ROSE![]()
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY SHELLEY![]()
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY![]()
I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.
PAT NIXON My Misty Ghost- "Once, I saw a beautiful rainbow in the sky, and then, poof, it was gone. Just like ...
LILY FREY My father died. His ornithological knowledge, never collected or collated in anything like a compreh...
PETER GREENAWAY I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the...
MAE WHITMAN![]()
My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection fo...
DAVID OGDEN STIERS Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY![]()
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different....
CAROL LEIFER Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan...
TATUM O'NEAL My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lo...
USHER![]()
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte...
SAM HOUSTON![]()
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m...
DONALD TRUMP![]()
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa...
RAM SHRIRAM![]()
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I...
ANN HOOD After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled...
RONNIE MUSGROVE My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN![]()
My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my fath...
CLINT EASTWOOD![]()
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a...
AARON PAUL![]()
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest depart...
ANUPAM KHER![]()
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead...
JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY![]()
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor...
ARLEN SPECTER To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later ...
DAVID NEWMAN My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother de...
JOHN LAUTNER I have been changing my diet on my own. I haven't had any salt in the last month, and I cut out caff...
DANA QUIGLEY![]()
I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, an...
JOHN SALLEY My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
JAMES RAINWATER If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it w...
STEPHEN MARLEY I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was ...
EMILY DESCHANEL I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a l...
ELLEN KLAGES![]()
I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never...
NATHANIEL KAHN![]()
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t...
ARABELLA WEIR My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remem...
RACHEL JOYCE![]()
In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last woun...
CLIVE SINCLAIR My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
JOY BEHAR![]()
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I ...
GARY OLDMAN![]()
My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it re...
ANGELA AHRENDTS![]()
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with ...
T. D. JAKES When I dream go into a parallel universe: dreaming of my past memories that my subconscious was hold...
MARIAH REBECCA ARGUELLO My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
GEORGE KENNEDY![]()
Nine years ago, my mother died and my father wore black for a year and a half.
NICHOLAS SPARKS I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW![]()
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ...
BONNIE BEDELIA![]()
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou...
KERRI WALSH JENNINGS![]()
My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world,...
KEVIN BACON![]()
I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting in...
BRITT EKLAND As of April 2005, when the process was suspended, we had identified only 1,592 out of the presumed 2...
DR. ROBERT C. SHALER At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inch...
JACK BOWMAN When my dad died at 15 [of a heart attack], ... one of the sacred places I could go was with a ball,...
JIM CALHOUN![]()
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled...
CHIEF JOSEPH
JAMES ROUSE 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
My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not f... QUINCY JONES What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown...
RAHUL GANDHI
An unlearned carpenter of my acquaintance once said in my hearing: 'There is very little difference ... WILLIAM JAMES
I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD
When he died, I went about like a ragged crow telling strangers, "My father died, my father died." M... KIRAN DESAI
My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer - but it was because of what my... HENRY FORD When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN
My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatev... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The web was such a vital part of my life. It was like an oracle, a book that never ran out of pages,...
MAX HARMS
I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... LAILA ALI
I've done my work and I'm happy with it... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different p... BRANDON LEE My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous m...
BRIAN COX 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
I don't believe in regretting - one should try to move on. My mum was good at that. She was deep... ROBERT WINSTON
My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d... VICTOR BORGE
I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my f... INDIRA GANDHI
I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE My father died when I was really young, on Christmas Day.
DAVID AYER My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR
My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural... NATHANIEL KAHN
This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. H... MELINA MARCHETTA My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer...
SUE MILLER
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS
As a child, I was an obsessive reader, as was everybody in my family all winter long with my father.... JIM HARRISON I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.
ALAN GERRY
I grew up in Tuscany in a very poor family. My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, ... ROBERTO BENIGNI My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from ...
PAUL GIAMATTI My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of m...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. DONALD JOHANSON When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one b...
STEPHEN FURST
My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland...
JOHN C. HAWKES
My childhood was kind of complicated. I have an older sister, but my father, my mother's husband... ORLANDO BLOOM I had just been promoted to the first rugby team. It was a perfect, wonderful coming of age. My brot...
ANTHONY BROWNE My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w...
KAREN BASS I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, whi...
T. J. THYNE Unless you allow yourself to seek your inner depths; the surfacial affairs of life shall always engr...
DINESH KUMAR I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had ...
IRA LEVIN At different stages of my life I made different mistakes, at times costly ones. But I never for once...
OLASOT
I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what ... KAZUO ISHIGURO
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in acad... PETE SEEGER
My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very gratef... ROBERTO BENIGNI
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis.... STUART ROSE
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. MARY SHELLEY
My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings. MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
I have made my own decisions ever since my father died. PAT NIXON My Misty Ghost- "Once, I saw a beautiful rainbow in the sky, and then, poof, it was gone. Just like ...
LILY FREY My father died. His ornithological knowledge, never collected or collated in anything like a compreh...
PETER GREENAWAY I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very dif...
VANESSA KERRY I like to be a lot of different things at once and dress different ways and I change my hair all the...
MAE WHITMAN
My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection fo... DAVID OGDEN STIERS Until I was 21, I wasn't going into the media. I was a professional show jumper; I was going to ...
JONATHAN DIMBLEBY
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different.... CAROL LEIFER Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan...
TATUM O'NEAL My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa...
DICHEN LACHMAN My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lo...
USHER
I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much afte... SAM HOUSTON
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
I guess the most seminal moment going early way back was my father died when I was 3 years old. I wa... RAM SHRIRAM
Since my brother died in 1982, my parents and I had formed a shaky tripod of a family; now that I... ANN HOOD After my father died when I was seven and my mother entered into an abusive relationship, I shuffled...
RONNIE MUSGROVE My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ...
FRED ARMISEN
My grandfather lived to be late 90s on one side and on the other side, 70s or something. And my fath... CLINT EASTWOOD
I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a... AARON PAUL
I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest depart... ANUPAM KHER
I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful lead... JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later ...
DAVID NEWMAN My father liked doing carpentry work, construction work, in the summer vacation. And so my mother de...
JOHN LAUTNER I have been changing my diet on my own. I haven't had any salt in the last month, and I cut out caff...
DANA QUIGLEY
I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, an... JOHN SALLEY My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
JAMES RAINWATER If I was a carpenter, and I was trying to maintain my father's musical legacy, then I guess it w...
STEPHEN MARLEY I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was ...
EMILY DESCHANEL I was 12 years old when I said goodbye to my family and relatives. I never saw my parents again. I l...
ANNE FOX My father once told me that I have a mind like a lint trap - I pull stuff out of everything, and a l...
ELLEN KLAGES
I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never... NATHANIEL KAHN
My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got t... ARABELLA WEIR My father died in France, and my sisters and I went over with my mum to bring back his body. I remem...
RACHEL JOYCE
In 1966, I bought my parents a carriage clock for their silver wedding anniversary. It was last woun... CLIVE SINCLAIR My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m...
JOY BEHAR
I drank for about 25 years getting over the loss of my father and I took the anger out on myself. I ... GARY OLDMAN
My father smoked cigars his whole life, and my husband once in a while does. And when he does, it re... ANGELA AHRENDTS
I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with ... T. D. JAKES When I dream go into a parallel universe: dreaming of my past memories that my subconscious was hold...
MARIAH REBECCA ARGUELLO My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.
GEORGE KENNEDY
Nine years ago, my mother died and my father wore black for a year and a half. NICHOLAS SPARKS I would have been willing to do anything for my father. I would have moved in with my father to look...
BRUCE PALTROW
When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA
My mother is my biggest role model, and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in ou... KERRI WALSH JENNINGS
My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world,... KEVIN BACON
I was never particularly wild, just very busy and often didn't think about what I was putting in... BRITT EKLAND As of April 2005, when the process was suspended, we had identified only 1,592 out of the presumed 2...
DR. ROBERT C. SHALER At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inch...
JACK BOWMAN When my dad died at 15 [of a heart attack], ... one of the sacred places I could go was with a ball,...
JIM CALHOUN
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled... CHIEF JOSEPH
In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a b... 
A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment. 
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. 
Social media is a double-edged sword. I've gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something... 
One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot... 
I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general bas... 
When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - liv... 
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a la... 
When I was a kid, I loved 'The Curse of Frankenstein,' 'The Creeping Unknown,' '... 
Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with ca... 
I'm fifty-six and still a Virgo 
I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life. 
In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,'... 