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ROBERT H. GRUBBS
'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There'... ATHOL FUGARD
I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us... OMARI HARDWICK I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between peo...
HAMILTON JORDAN
I had a Jewish grandfather. We managed to hide this fact from the authorities by falsifying document... HELMUT SCHMIDT
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JOSEPH ABBOUD
I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to ke... SUGAR RAY LEONARD
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war,... STEPHEN HAWKING My father, in 1952, just in his 20s, my father became the chief spokesman for the Nation of Islam. F...
ILYASAH SHABAZZ
Since my mother passed away, my father and I forged a bond that is so tighter than one could possibl... JENNA MORASCA The officer said my son didn't make it and he had passed away. I was in shock and wanted to know whe...
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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse ... RUPERT MURDOCH
When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didn't listen to music for four days - that's a... CARLOS SANTANA
When I went on my first run about two months after having my first child in 1998, I didn't get more ... BONNIE BLAIR
The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a... PETER ZUMTHOR In our town there was a Gestapo officer who loved to play chess. After the occupation began, he foun...
BRUNO SCHULZ
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled... CHIEF JOSEPH He had been on duty for approximately six months and was in his probationary post-academy period at ...
DOUG MOSIER
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LARS TATOM When my hair was dark for 'House,' that was the hardest to maintain because it was like ever...
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I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. ... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on ... ANDY SERKIS When my father passed away, he had his organs donated. In that painful moment, I was deeply comforte...
JOHN PEREZ I've realized as well after five years of being on the road that if I'm going to four or fiv...
COLIN FARRELL You know my powers, my dear Watson, and yet at the end of three months I was forced to confess that ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,' which my father had tried to get made for six, seven ... MICHAEL DOUGLAS
His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, ... BECCA FITZPATRICK 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
Because my father was often absent on naval duty, my mother suffered me to do much as I pleased. JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young. CARLOS SLIM I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ...
WYCLEF JEAN
My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or fo... VALENTINO ROSSI
Working with Roshni gives me lot of confidence. When I started SSN - in 1994, after a windfall gain ... SHIV NADAR The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away. He passed away really young. I was g...
ADEPERO ODUYE
What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed... DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK
I grew up in a completely bookless household. It was my father's boast that he had never read a ... JOHN LE CARRE What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown...
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I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and... CAROLINE KENNEDY My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six y...
DARA KHOSROWSHAHI After John received his degree, he joined DSV, a venture capital firm in Princeton, and when I had m...
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ARNON GOLDFINGER My great-grandfather was a kola nut trader and the richest man in West Africa at the time of his dea...
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I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away ... RIDLEY SCOTT
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BRYCE FISHER
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of...
IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY
I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, a... CARL YASTRZEMSKI I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an...
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BIBLE
I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off [tour], I was just dying to start recording, be... AVRIL LAVIGNE
I only toured for three months. As soon as I got off \[tour\], I was just dying to start recording, ... AVRIL LAVIGNE I was holding on to a woman and her child under an overpass as the tornado went over us. My pager we...
J. PAT CARTER
My father believed in astrology. His astrologer had predicted that his daughter would become a write... TWINKLE KHANNA
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and cal... CHELSEA HANDLER The crowd started to panic and women and children were being trampled underfoot. My son was on my sh...
ABDUL WALID I lost my father four years ago to what was the culmination of a manic episode that seemingly, to my...
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My father moved to Hawaii from Brooklyn and my mother came there as a child from the Philippines. Th... BRUNO MARS
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I dreamed I had a child, and even in the dream I saw it was my life, and it was an idiot, and I ran ... ARTHUR MILLER My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an i...
EUGENE JARECKI
My father was - actually was an Episcopal priest as a young man. Became a psychotherapist, a psychol... JOSHUA BELL My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there...
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My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in m... ISABEL ALLENDE When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his s...
EDWARD CARPENTER My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately aft...
DANE COOK
I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used t... NARENDRA MODI
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known th... J. G. BALLARD When I was four years old, my father, who was a colonel in the army, was stationed in Salzburg, Aust...
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And his hair was free, no ponytail, no braid, the long thickness of it waved and curled down his bac... KRISTEN ASHLEY I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Repub...
EDWARD BROOKE I was hopeful to be here. I was counting on my fingers what four months was, and my doctor told me t...
BRAD FAXON Stu graciously let me stay in his guest house from February to April with his family for three month...
BEN MICHAELSON In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I ...
MAGGIE CAREY My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading...
RUDOLPH A. MARCUS After my father died, I stayed relatively sane for two years, although I did lose my noodle at summe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Represen...
ALEXANDER DOWNER
I wanted his death so savagely that the need for it rang in my ears and clouded my sight and was a f... STEPHENIE MEYER
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule... THURGOOD MARSHALL There was once a house built out of memories and inside this house lived a woman called The Memory S...
DIRIYE OSMAN My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my col...
MYRON SCHOLES My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva ...
JUDY BLUME
I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as muc... OMARI HARDWICK Everything was so distorted, so out of whack. Now, everything's starting to shape up. I spent a coup...
MATT LAWTON I had a bedroom of my own in the pub and was welcome there whenever I had the opportunity to travel....
EILEEN MCLANE When I was 13 I was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. I spent 13 weeks in the hospital getting ...
DELBERT TEILLE I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so ...
STEVE WYNN In my city of Maracay, there is a go kart circuit about five minutes from my home. When I was about ...
PASTOR MALDONADO
