Father Quotes - Page 28

• And that was always my father's favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Shooting, Stuff

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.

  Sue Grafton

  Book, Law, California

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• There was a moment of extraordinary humbleness and humility and pride, as well, with my father when he turned to me - and I think it was after I played Salieri in "Amadeus" at university. And he said, You're better than I ever was or ever could be, you should do this for profession. You'd have a good time.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Humility, Pride, Thinking

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: 'Sherlock,' Smaug And Spying". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. May 3, 2012.

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• I do love science. My father is a scientist.

  Allison Silverman

  Scientist, Science Love

  Source: www.elle.com

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• My father got a job at Bradford University in textiles. And he came for - I guess, you know, why do people immigrate? - like, for a better life to find, you know, a new world. And, you know, I think he always - he saw it as an opportunity. And so yeah so we came to this coal mining town in the north of England and that's where I grew up.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Jobs, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• We are Muslims. My father would pawn off his Muslim in-laws as Hindus just so that he could get free pancakes.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Law, Pawns, Pancakes

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• When you come from a family that has been political, and I was brought up by my grandfather in the Senate, my father was in Roosevelt's Cabinet, this is not the class that produces writers or reflective people.

  Gore Vidal

  Class, People, Political

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• I have been on the cover of Time magazine. My father was on the cover of Time, and my grandfather was on the cover of Time.

  Gore Vidal

  Magazines, Time Magazine, Has Beens

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• I would be literally patrician in the sense that the senators in ancient Rome were called conscript fathers, paters, from which comes the word patrician. So if you come from a senatorial family, you are literally patrician in that sense, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't be Billy Carter, you know, of recent memory.

  Gore Vidal

  Memories, Mean, Rome

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

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• My father was a dentist, and I always thought that he was one of the 10. It's an interesting way to personalize and humanize, which is one of the most important aspects of communication.

  Frank Luntz

  Communication, Interesting, Important

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". Interview with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• I had a friend in the neighborhood whose father had Playboy magazines, and we would go over and look at them. I remember cutting out pictures and hiding them in my room.

  Richard Gere

  Cutting, Looks, Magazines

  "Changing Gere". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. April 24, 2007.

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• God’s perspective on us is remarkable, almost unbelievable. He delights in us and loves us as a caring Father. He’s running toward us, ready to embrace and forgive us. He’s for us in all the pain of life and can sustain us in every challenge. as i learn to see from God’s perspective, my perspective on everything else shifts. i realize that my failures don't disqualify me. i’m aware of the security i already have in God’s grace. i trust that nothing will separate me from the love of God in Christ.

  Jud Wilhite

  Running, Pain, Caring

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• It's one of the most fundamental desires of man, of being free and flying unhindered, and it really seems to go a lot with our founding fathers' principles of freedom.

  Dean Potter

  Men, Flying, Being Free

  Source: cynthialynnchronicles.com

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• My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Thinking, Alzheimer's, Tragedy

  Source: digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu

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• We spent all day travelling, living away from the people you love, not sleep in our own bed ... We are far from our own houses. We live in hotels, clubs. And now that I am a father it is much more difficult.

  Novak Djokovic

  Sleep, People, House

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• My success has a lot to do with my private life. I've matured a lot by first becoming a husband and now a father. My life is in the right direction. And that helps a player to thrive. One thing is linked with the other. My private life has helped me.

  Novak Djokovic

  Husband, Player, Firsts

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• My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song.

  Steven Drozd

  Song, Wife, My Son

  "Keep the Things You Forgot: An Elliott Smith Oral History" by Jayson Greene, pitchfork.com. October 21, 2013.

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• That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So Jesus' life was the life of God nurtured through the Virgin Mary. That's because the virgin birth died as a literal story as soon as we discovered that women had an egg cell. It's interesting to watch what the Roman church did about that.

  John Shelby Spong

  Mother, Jesus, Cells

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.

  Chaka Khan

  Brother, World, My Brother

  FaceBook post by Chaka Khan from Apr 21, 2016

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• When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

  Boris Johnson

  Europe, United States, Different

  "The Telegraph EU Debate: Viewers award victory to Boris Johnson and Priti Patel in head-to-head with Alex Salmond and Liz Kendall". The Telegraph and Huffington Post EU Debate at the headquarters of YouTube in London, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 14, 2016.

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• I think some of my inspiration came from just being around music. My family was into music. My uncle had his own band and my father use to sing in my uncle's band. If you want to go to the music influences we could be here all day. That's everybody from Michael Jackson all the way up to people in the game now that inspire me.

  Nelly

  Uncles, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I think rappers are the fall guy because some of us don't have the wits to point the finger back. The thing is when you take a whole generation and whip them out, string the mothers out and put the fathers in jail - the reason I know respect is because my father is the mediator between me and my grandfather. I'm the mediator between my son and my father because I'm old enough to understand where my father is coming from and young enough to understand what my kid is trying to do. When you whip out the mediator the kids run wild and the old people are scared of them.

  Nelly

  Mother, Running, Fall

  "Catching Up – Our Nelly Interview". Parlé Magazine Interview, www.parlemag.com. June 22, 2010.

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• I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

  Robert Barry

  Kids, Cameras, Littles

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.

  Vandana Shiva

  Mean, India, Movement

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Being a father kind of gives you something more to play for.

  Stephen Curry

  Play, Giving, Kind

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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