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CAMERON MACKINTOSH![]()
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a...
OLIVIA HUSSEY![]()
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h...
GREGG ALLMAN He was a complete surprise as far as I was concerned. There was a void in the lineup and there were ...
GARY THOMPSON When he was 4, he looked like he was 6. When he was 8, he looked like he was 10. When he was 12, he ...
LINDA CHRISTIAN![]()
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat...
DONALD TRUMP Even when he was in Iraq fighting a war, he was always smiling,
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My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor...
ARLEN SPECTER Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when...
STEPHEN KINZER My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight.
MANNAA MANNAA![]()
I don't talk about it. But when I was a little girl, my father was abusive when he drank and seemed ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the...
RANDY BACHMAN I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and t...
DIANE ADAMS When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN![]()
My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I was a little bit scared at first. I was in my 30s when I originally sang those numbers. Now, I am ...
ASHA BHOSLE My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been...
MARILLYN HEWSON He came over after World War II. He was in Germany learning from engineers when he was 16 years old....
ANDREW KLENERT![]()
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father fi...
FRANK GIFFORD![]()
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a har...
DOLPH LUNDGREN In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which be...
ISHMAEL BEAH It really was an incredible creature as frightening as it is. It was his domain, and he was the boss...
JONATHAN GENANT He was a hero in war. He was a hero as a police officer. He was our hero.
BRIAN EILERMAN I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he...
RETTA My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he wa...
MAGDI YACOUB![]()
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A...
GAVIN DEGRAW My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
FORREST BIRD I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during th...
LUPITA NYONG'O I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB![]()
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ...
LARRY ELDER My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB![]()
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o...
DEYTH BANGER![]()
The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the sa...
JOHN COREY WHALEY![]()
When he came here he was 18 years old and kind of wide-eyed, ... He did some good things as a freshm...
JIM MURPHY![]()
My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen ...
JIM YONG KIM My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
DANNY AIELLO![]()
Let me tell you about the nap. It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always...
PHILIP ROTH![]()
I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was re...
URSULA K. LE GUIN He didn't run for four months and when he got onto the paddock and ran he was very concerned because...
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I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopte...
BIG SMO But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER![]()
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
ALAN J. HEEGER My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was ...
DANNY AIELLO![]()
I didn't bathe him because I was too afraid he would slip out of my hands or his belly button would ...
MIRANDA JULY![]()
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m...
DONALD TRUMP![]()
I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kiss...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.
TOM SIZEMORE 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 I remember when he was at my waist, then he got a little bit taller, then he grew like a weed. He wa...
MIKE ALSTOTT [Miller still sounds awed when he recounts almost immediately finding himself in a studio with Davis...
MARCUS MILLER![]()
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coole...
ADAM SANDLER He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE![]()
My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific,...
STURGILL SIMPSON![]()
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ...
HARVEY FIERSTEIN He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor.
J. LOREN WINCE![]()
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
MIKE MYERS When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside m...
TONY PARSONS![]()
He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a...
GARTH NIX I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON![]()
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encounter...
THEODORE STURGEON When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his s...
EDWARD CARPENTER![]()
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea...
WALTER MOSLEY![]()
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig...
TERRY WOGAN![]()
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
DONALD JOHANSON He was twice as old as when they sentenced him to die, and he certainly wasn't the same person that ...
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH![]()
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United State...
HENRY LOUIS GATES This man gave up his life for all of us just as if he were in a war on foreign land. He was a soldie...
DONNIE WILLIAMS![]()
I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father a...
RENE AUBERJONOIS I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did no...
BIBLE My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my...
DORIS EATON TRAVIS![]()
My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared w...
ZIGGY MARLEY I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. ...
NIA LONG I joined Hadassah because I knew they did wonderful work, ... My own father was a physician and buil...
DIANE ROSS My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...
MICHAEL HANEKE As far as problems are concerned, only problem he had was, he was not having any problem.
DR HITESH C SHETH I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done ser...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that...
BILL FORSYTH I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washingto...
LAWRENCE BENDER He was double my size in high school. And he was a sophomore when I was a senior.
EDDY RODRIGUEZ![]()
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft...
TRACY MORGAN 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 father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty offic...
HILLARY CLINTON I was a product of the Depression. My father struggled to make a living for our family. He worked as...
CHARLES MOORE I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET![]()
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II...
AL PACINO When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and somethi...
MARV LEVY I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated...
NATALIA VODIANOVA![]()
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and t...
TOM HANKS![]()
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![]()
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
KARAN JOHAR He has an extraordinary degree of talent and passion, and he was a little wild man. My job was simpl...
LEE OLSEN![]()
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ...
DAVID SOUL![]()
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was ...
PRINCE![]()
I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led...
ALEX HONNOLD
CAMERON MACKINTOSH
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina a... OLIVIA HUSSEY
My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, h... GREGG ALLMAN He was a complete surprise as far as I was concerned. There was a void in the lineup and there were ...
GARY THOMPSON When he was 4, he looked like he was 6. When he was 8, he looked like he was 10. When he was 12, he ...
LINDA CHRISTIAN
My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... DONALD TRUMP Even when he was in Iraq fighting a war, he was always smiling,
ANTHONY MARTINEZ
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when...
STEPHEN KINZER My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called...
ED BRADLEY I started boxing when I was 5 years old because my father was a boxer. He taught me how to fight.
MANNAA MANNAA
I don't talk about it. But when I was a little girl, my father was abusive when he drank and seemed ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the...
RANDY BACHMAN I didn't even know he was into art. I did a little bit because my parents passed when he was 7 and t...
DIANE ADAMS When I was six years old, my parents told me that we were moving back home to Armenia. I didn't ...
HENRIKH MKHITARYAN
My father was career military. He was a veteran, he was a doctor of political science, he taught at ... SUZANNE COLLINS I was a little bit scared at first. I was in my 30s when I originally sang those numbers. Now, I am ...
ASHA BHOSLE My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been...
MARILLYN HEWSON He came over after World War II. He was in Germany learning from engineers when he was 16 years old....
ANDREW KLENERT
I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father fi... FRANK GIFFORD
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a har... DOLPH LUNDGREN In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which be...
ISHMAEL BEAH It really was an incredible creature as frightening as it is. It was his domain, and he was the boss...
JONATHAN GENANT He was a hero in war. He was a hero as a police officer. He was our hero.
BRIAN EILERMAN I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he...
RETTA My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he wa...
MAGDI YACOUB
When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A... GAVIN DEGRAW My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
FORREST BIRD I was born in Mexico because my father was teaching at a school in Mexico City. I was born during th...
LUPITA NYONG'O I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ...
TONY SHALHOUB
Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and ... LARRY ELDER My father became a mythical figure, more force than man. . .he was a force my mother would use as a ...
DAGOBERTO GILB
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER
The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the sa... JOHN COREY WHALEY
When he came here he was 18 years old and kind of wide-eyed, ... He did some good things as a freshm... JIM MURPHY
My father came by himself across the North Korean border when he was seventeen. And hasn't seen ... JIM YONG KIM My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic.
DANNY AIELLO
Let me tell you about the nap. It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always... PHILIP ROTH
I never knew a person who reacted so wholly and rapidly to a changed situation as Estraven. I was re... URSULA K. LE GUIN He didn't run for four months and when he got onto the paddock and ran he was very concerned because...
DANIEL ANDERSON
I had a sister who was killed in a motorcycle wreck when I was around 4 years old. My parents adopte... BIG SMO But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go t...
ALAN J. HEEGER My father was never around. It was almost as if he didn't exist. I would tell my friends he was ...
DANNY AIELLO
I didn't bathe him because I was too afraid he would slip out of my hands or his belly button would ... MIRANDA JULY
My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP
I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kiss... NICHOLAS SPARKS I was an anomaly because my father was a Harvard man, and he came from a family of poor people.
TOM SIZEMORE 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 I remember when he was at my waist, then he got a little bit taller, then he grew like a weed. He wa...
MIKE ALSTOTT [Miller still sounds awed when he recounts almost immediately finding himself in a studio with Davis...
MARCUS MILLER
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coole... ADAM SANDLER He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ...
HAILE GEBRSELASSIE
My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific,... STURGILL SIMPSON
My father was brought up in an orphanage in the Catskills. He was a factory worker. And because his ... HARVEY FIERSTEIN He was a very stern man, referred to me as his boy. I was his star pupil and he was my mentor.
J. LOREN WINCE
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. MIKE MYERS When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside m...
TONY PARSONS
He was obviously a very arrogant ragamuffin, and younger than she was, to boot. And he was wearing a... GARTH NIX I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'...
PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON
As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encounter... THEODORE STURGEON When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his s...
EDWARD CARPENTER
My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 yea... WALTER MOSLEY
My father was always slightly bemused by my success. Although he knew that I had reasonable intellig... TERRY WOGAN
My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago. DONALD JOHANSON He was twice as old as when they sentenced him to die, and he certainly wasn't the same person that ...
CLIVE STAFFORD SMITH
I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United State... HENRY LOUIS GATES This man gave up his life for all of us just as if he were in a war on foreign land. He was a soldie...
DONNIE WILLIAMS
I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father a... RENE AUBERJONOIS I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did no...
BIBLE My father is openly gay. He really loved my mother, but their marriage fell apart. When they separat...
BEN CURTIS My father died when I was 11. He was a vaudeville comedian. He worked in one movie, 'Ladies of t...
TERI GARR Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my...
DORIS EATON TRAVIS
My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared w... ZIGGY MARLEY I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. ...
NIA LONG I joined Hadassah because I knew they did wonderful work, ... My own father was a physician and buil...
DIANE ROSS My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a li...
MICHAEL HANEKE As far as problems are concerned, only problem he had was, he was not having any problem.
DR HITESH C SHETH I was pulled out of Omaha when I was younger because my father started to work, when he was done ser...
HOWARD WARREN BUFFETT When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that...
BILL FORSYTH I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washingto...
LAWRENCE BENDER He was double my size in high school. And he was a sophomore when I was a senior.
EDDY RODRIGUEZ
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN 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 father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty offic... HILLARY CLINTON I was a product of the Depression. My father struggled to make a living for our family. He worked as...
CHARLES MOORE I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mand...
CHORD OVERSTREET
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II... AL PACINO When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and somethi...
MARV LEVY I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated...
NATALIA VODIANOVA
When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and t... TOM HANKS
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
My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent. KARAN JOHAR He has an extraordinary degree of talent and passion, and he was a little wild man. My job was simpl...
LEE OLSEN
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science ... DAVID SOUL
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was ... PRINCE
I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led... ALEX HONNOLD
Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them. 
Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h... 
It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect... 
Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... without the ... 
On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space ... 
The most profound statements are often said in silence. 
I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy. 
My way was not to be the petite, gorgeous, little cheerleader. My way of getting by was making peopl... 
If you love it, and work really hard at it, it will really happen, I believe. I'm living proof. 