Father Quotes - Page 22

• My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug addict and alcoholic. So, I think they very consciously made decisions and parented me in a way that was aimed to help save me from that. So, I knew it would be particularly painful and it was, especially for my father.

  Melissa Febos

  Mother, Thinking, Decision

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I keep thinking my father gave me Turgenev, and then I realize at some point, Oh, this is a false memory. I mean, that's one of the things that interests me about memoir. It should be as much about how we remember, and that includes false memories, and the realization that one is having a false memory. That's the kind of an interesting way of layering the whole experience of recollection.

  Marco Roth

  Memories, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'd always wanted to write something about the Korean War because of my heritage. My father lost his brother during the war, and I fictionalized that episode, which was told to me very briefly without much detail.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Brother, War, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obviously loss of family is huge and critical, but I think really it's more about losing a sense of family. The horror of that kind of incompleteness. Writing this book, I tried not to think about my father, which does no one any good fictionally. I did try to imagine not just the horror of that moment, but the horror of having witnessed it, and the lifelong void. And I think that's what's so frightening.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Book, Writing, Loss

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My father, who was the one who really got me hooked on movies, liked all kinds of films, and I saw all kinds of films at a very young age.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Age, Saws, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the way her parents met. Her father was, I think, in New York just walking by on his way home and looked into a store and saw the lady that became his wife. It was just pure luck. And she said that it once again reminds her of the role that luck and chance play in our life. I really believe that, too.

  Owen Wilson

  New York, Believe, Home

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Strong, Men, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never received any encouragement. My father would work nights and my mother would work during the day. We were expected to get a job with a trade.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Mother, Encouragement, Jobs

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a guy named Robert Cox, who had been the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald during the Dirty War in Argentina. Bob used to print the names of those who had been disappeared the day before, above the fold in his newspaper. It was a kind of an awakening to me to see what great journalism can and should do.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Dirty, School

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• A lot of people ask me about my father's passing when I was young, which I'm never comfortable with. I invariably move around that subject.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Moving, People, Passing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• My father, Arinze Ejiofor , was a musician and a doctor. Nobody's ever asked me about that combination and what growing up in that environment was like.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Growing Up, Doctors, Musician

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.

  Elia Suleiman

  Character, Epic, Years

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• I don't know whether God talks to him or whether he's trying to undo what his father did. But he believes in the mission. The body bags aren't going to deter him. Public dissent isn't going to deter him. He's going to go ahead. And that's more frightening.

  Seymour Hersh

  Believe, Trying, Bags

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• he hardest obstacle for me has been to find a father. I am the product of three fathers, and my connection to each of them has left me wanting. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, but I've always been in competition with them in some way.

  Damon Runyon

  Competition, Weakness, Connections

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• When my father began to work with President John. F.Kennedy, we moved to Washington, D.C. I was fortunate in my pre-adolescent years, as my social and political consciousness was developing, to live at the epicentre of that dynamic, idealistic, and inspiring moment in U.S. political history, with its ethos of personal and civic responsibility, summed up so succinctly in his exhortation: "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country."

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Responsibility, Ethos

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• The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Jobs, Ideas, Public Service

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees. Today, as you are aware, Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan and Iraq are being overwhelmed by those fleeing the conflict in Syria, often with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Many are severely tortured - abused women and their traumatized children whose husbands, fathers, and brothers have been killed or permanently disabled.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Brother, Children, Husband

  "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've been acting since I was a little kid. It was my escape from my day which had to do with a father leaving, and a mother not being home, and her struggling and doing her best and all that. But it wasn't fun. I would go into theater class. If she were a stay-at-home mom, I wouldn't have that discomfort inside that kept me pushing.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Mom, Mother, Fun

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn't think of it as, oh, look, my father's a violent man.

  Toni Morrison

  Men, Thinking, Looks

  "'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 20, 2015.

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• My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not vagrants - hanging from trees as a child was traumatic for him.

  Toni Morrison

  Children, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't think I knew any of my father's friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames.

  Toni Morrison

  Real, Thinking, Names

  "'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 20, 2015.

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• My mom, my father, my little sisters, and my brother - I don't got that much family. I'm not really a family person. I just do my own thing. But I've just been spending time with my mom, especially since the [September motorcycle] accident happened. I drive all the way down there to Georgia just to check up on her. You just get tired of being that person that you thought you were. I don't feel no different. I see the music, because I made it. I don't really see the fame.

  Fetty Wap

  Mom, Brother, Tired

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• There were days when you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald. Video was out, but nobody could afford it...expect for my uncle George, who was a second father to me, and had every film in the world, and every book.

  William Monahan

  Uncles, Book, Video

  Source: collider.com

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• My mother and father have brought us up to respect everyone with the same equal love and honor them, and you're supposed to honor your profession.

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

  Mother, Honor, Equal

  Source: collider.com

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• My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didn’t meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasn’t in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.

  Vandana Shiva

  School, Careers, Done

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