Stephen Greenblatt
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VANESSA KERRY I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES I came from a very, very small valley in the middle of South Wales. I grew up there with my father, ... ANEURIN BARNARD ACTION BRONSON MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS T. BOONE PICKENS I believe very deeply in my soul that God paired me and my father purposely and that he knew that my... MAYSOON ZAYID CAROL LEIFER DONALD TRUMP But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ... PATRICIA RICHARDSON CHIEF JOSEPH My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening. ZOE WANAMAKER I had a very artistic bohemian childhood. My father was an actor and a mime. VONDA SHEPARD My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father. DOLORES HUERTA 'In the Wake' was a very bleak book. This relationship was not too good, the father and son.... PER PETTERSON Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ... LEONARD ROSE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN SALMAN RUSHDIE My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passio... LASSE HALLSTROM My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and alwa... MAHESH BABU DAMON WAYANS This week was the first anniversary of the death of my father and I had long promised my mother we w... JUERGEN KLINSMANN My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN DIKEMBE MUTOMBO ANSEL ELGORT I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pen... 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ERIKA SLEZAK DAVID CASSIDY My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professio... OLIVIER MARTINEZ MERRY CLAYTON RADHANATH SWAMI PAULA DANZIGER ANGELA AHRENDTS If you asked anybody in my family, they would have very stridently proclaimed themselves middle clas... DAVE VAN RONK BARBRA STREISAND LUPE FIASCO My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk fro... WLADYSLAW REYMONT As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurio... GEORGE MULLER ROBERTO BENIGNI IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very differe... EDWARD CARPENTER I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very... CHARLES KIMBROUGH CHARLES DICKENS BRAD PAISLEY INDIRA GANDHI My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and w... 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My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My... 
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me... 
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My father was truly a great man. I remember one day putting my feet in my father's shoes. I was ... 
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