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Related My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My fat... DONALD TRUMP 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 life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... APOLO OHNO My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He... MACAULAY CULKIN My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever si... RICHARD GRIFFITHS 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 definitely could relate to the father aspect of the script because although my father is alive, I ... ORLANDO BLOOM My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called... ED BRADLEY My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. MIKE MYERS He always left a nice drink for me. He was just like a father to me, although he never spoke my name... LEO LATLIP Unlike my mother, who was unashamedly delighted when I decided to become an actor, I always feel tha... MARTIN CLUNES I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my... MAYSOON ZAYID With my father and uncle so involved in racing, it was the only thing I ever knew, so I'm sure t... JACQUES VILLENEUVE Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar. JOEL HODGSON As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial ... JACKIE CHAN Daddy," I whispered, feeling my own breath hitch in my throat. "I love you." Just when I was su... MORGAN MATSON It was after he bit me that, and was kind of, the water had calm down a little bit, that I was reall... ELIZABETH DUNN Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth... STACEY LEE He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape ... HAILE GEBRSELASSIE My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat befor... ERNESTO BERTARELLI I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong. DAMIAN LOEB My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in Wor... ARLEN SPECTER I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was ... ALEX CLARE My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family... NEYMAR I thought I knew who Alan Turing was. I've always loved history, and I was actually shocked by h... MORTEN TYLDUM It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not... WILLIAM FAULKNER When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always though... ROBIN WILLIAMS I mean, he's a little bit bigger, obviously, than Santana, so he's a little bit more physical. He ha... HERMAN EDWARDS I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisite... RAINBOW ROWELL He had plenty of time, and I had my pad down. I figured he would try to lift the puck, so I just lif... CRISTOBAL HUET I didn't discover Terry until I was 10 years old, he was a legend by that time, SHAWN ASHMORE He always expected to die young, and I thought that was really a tragedy. It's almost like he had a ... LAURA NYGREN I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowma... JOSEPH BRUCHAC I was disappointed in Terry, that's for sure. In 'Survivor' you can't always count on your buddies s... DAN BARRY My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States s... HERMANN EILTS 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 man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH He's a very hard horse to ride. He came out a little bit at the end, but as soon as he came out, I t... JAVIER CASTELLANO My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered - he ... MARK BILLINGHAM I had a very difficult and complex relationship with my father, ... It was only when I was 15 years ... RAMON MAGSAYSAY He is the greatest mystery I had even known, one that always had me craving just a little bit more. NIKKI ROWE My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making wha... ALAN C. GREENBERG He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things. DAVID LEVITHAN I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids... AMY CHUA As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from a... NORMAN MACLEAN I do think that whatever ambition I may have had natively was amplified by my father's clear val... ANGELA DUCKWORTH My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, b... AARON LEVIE Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking bo... KARAN JOHAR I could sense he was a little bit nervous. He had been the starter here for a couple of years. He ca... DAN MULLEN My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was alwa... JENNIFER JOHNSTON When I was 14, my mother died. My father, who had always had ulcers, came apart. He had a series of ... BONNIE BEDELIA Oh, I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that. I was a little bit i... ARIEL PINK I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was ... TONY SHALHOUB I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the neare... IRENE ROSENFELD Marty was an extraordinary person. Of all the boys I had dated, he was the only one who really cared... RUTH BADER GINSBURG My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my fathe... JOHNNY CASH I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly ... CHARLES SOULE Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English. ROALD DAHL My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog wa... WENDY LIEBMAN He's my point guard. He knew where I was. The ball came off (the backboard) a little bit to the left... MAX FOYE My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he wa... MAGDI YACOUB Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my go... DREW BREES 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 simply a man ahead of his time. He was the second of two men I knew who never had any prejudi... BUCK O'NEIL My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed ... CARRIE FISHER He was just Ritchie to us, and he was always my little brother. I don't know if we'll ever get over ... BOB MORALES 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 My father, Philip Fisher, was the toughest guy I ever knew. An example: He had terrible teeth, yet h... KENNETH FISHER Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different.... CAROL LEIFER I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and... THOMAS KEAN, JR. I was a bit surprised. Age more than anything. I thought he was getting a little old to play competi... GUY DAVIS I was inquiring as to a little more detail, and he informed me that he had been told that the presid... QUIN SNYDER My father was very energetic; my mother was very energetic. He lived to a very old age, and so did m... DONALD TRUMP I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I rememb... CAMERON MACKINTOSH Chad knew the names of every NBA player when he was just a little boy. He's always had a passion for... WILSON JACKSON My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared w... ZIGGY MARLEY The reason Martin studied Japanese is because orchestra members teased him that he was illiterate in... CARRIE SMITH Everybody knew my father. He wasn't a troublemaker. My father was working. He didn't bother anybody.... JOSE SERVELLON My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was. DAVID HOLT My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but the... GARRY HYNES My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my f... SPIKE MILLIGAN He never really hurt me with his shots because he is not a big puncher. But he is a brilliant boxer.... ALEX ARTHUR Ever since I was a little kid, I always thought about my first start in college football. I was a li... BLAKE FIELD I had a very distant relationship with my father. It was always just me and my mother. It was a shat... JOAN LINGARD 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 I knew Sinatra for 38 years. He was like my father. Frank Sinatra was my 'dad.' He treated m... TRINI LOPEZ Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had ... SAFFRON ALDRIDGE 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 knew Jim and ESPN were talking, but I always felt that deep in my soul, he was a CBS guy, the face... LES MOONVES One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with whic... BEN OKRI I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'... PARIS-MICHAEL KATHERINE JACKSON Success was always critical to me. What it meant was winning enough praise and external admiration t... MICHAEL KORDA One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his '... SUZI QUATRO I've always had trouble with male authority figures because my father was such a martinet. MOLLY IVINS I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companie... MARTHA STEWART My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cy... NAOMI SHIHAB NYE My father was gone. I went up to his suite, not to see him, but to figure out if he had been gone or... MONIKA BASILE When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h... JODI PICOULT The thing I always saw in him was that, for a big kid, he always had skills. He could always dribble... BRIAN FAHEY I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he hel... ED ROYCE
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TERRY PRATCHETT Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speec... TERRY EAGLETON Experience is what keeps a man who makes the same mistake twice from admitting it the third time aro... TERRY MCCORMICK Sometimes the gods have no taste at all. They allow sunrises and sunsets in ridiculous pink and blue... TERRY PRATCHETT All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move ... TERRY EAGLETON People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is wh... TERRY ANDERSON The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but ... TERRY WAITE What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology.... TERRY EAGLETON Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. TERRY EAGLETON When you've got something to prove, there's nothing greater than a challenge. TERRY BRADSHAW In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and ... TERRY ORLICK Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the a... TERRY EAGLETON What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. TERRY BRADSHAW A mistake is a Buddhist gift.
Director Terry Gilliam to Robin Williams. TERRY GILLIAM I meant, said Ipslore bitterly, what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while? Dea... TERRY PRATCHETT Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ELLEN TERRY Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. TERRY PRATCHETT It's not enough to be able to pick up a sword. You have to know which end to poke into the enemy. TERRY PRATCHETT The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - b... TERRY SOUTHERN ’I'd have you lot up in front of the University authorities first thing in the morning, if it wasn... TERRY PRATCHETT Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces TERRY PRATCHETT It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what th... TERRY PRATCHETT One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than... TERRY PRATCHETT It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it. TERRY PRATCHETT Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. TERRY PRATCHETT This book had two authors, and they were both the same person. TERRY PRATCHETT If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch. TERRY PRATCHETT Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them. TERRY PRATCHETT Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility. TERRY PRATCHETT ...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. TERRY PRATCHETT We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything. TERRY PRATCHETT His philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -- the Cynics, the Stoics and the Epicureans --... TERRY PRATCHETT Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. TERRY PRATCHETT Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time. TERRY PRATCHETT DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH. TERRY PRATCHETT It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Li... TERRY PRATCHETT Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his lif... TERRY PRATCHETT Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—species... TERRY PRATCHETT Something Vimes had learned as a young guard drifted up from memory. If you have to look alon... TERRY PRATCHETT Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the mus... TERRY PRATCHETT Don't worry, it's not loaded. TERRY KATH Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things. TERRY PRATCHETT To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes... TERRY PRATCHETT