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“My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.”

Ifs Inspiration Father Challenges Attitude Break Wall Breaking Down Prevailing

Author:Donny Osmond

“My father instilled in me to take care of my family. Show up even when you don't want to show up.”

Want Shows Care Father My Family Take Care

Author:Steve Harvey

“My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.”

Mother Father Tears Dad Disease Died Caught Cures

Author:Victor Borge

“My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.”

Able Father Banking

Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: The Story of a Bad Boy

“My father is 100% Japanese and came to the United States when he was only 18 years old. My grandmother still resides in Japan, which has allowed me to travel to the roots of my ancestors with my father.”

Years Stills States Father United United States Roots Japan Grandmother Ancestor My Grandmother

Author:Apolo Ohno

“My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.”

Ends Feelings Happens Mother Father Parent Exciting Chemist Exciting Things Homemaker

Author:Rita Dove

“My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.”

Thinking Feels Years Humans Father Waiting Human Beings Education Forever Alive Students College Pops Professors College Professors College Experience

Author:Gabriel Mann

“My father is a cultural anthropologist and my mother ran an outpatient clinic and treated a lot of people who had been institutionalised. I was very fascinated with behaviour and criminology and why people do things that don't make any sense. I would probe my mother: "Why? Why would somebody do this?" And look for some causality between someone's mental state and their behaviour. I think it had a lot of influence on me.”

People Thinking Looks States Mother Father Influence Treated Ran Fascinated Behaviour Clinic Causality Anthropologists Criminology

Author:Eliza Hittman

“My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.”

Father Wonderful Terrible Husband Grandfather Great Grandfather

Author:Pamela Anderson

“My father is a guy who will fight and he will fight for America and he's always fought for himself.”

America Guy Fighting Father

Author:Eric Trump

“My father is a gypsy. He traveled in caravans and was branded by the Ku Klux Klan. You know I have a history about race in my family that has very much to do with the other things that you name about poverty, about class, about access - or lack of it.”

Knows Father Names Race Class Poverty My Family Access Traveled Gypsy Ku Klux Klan Branded Caravans

Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That’s my promise. This time I truly mean it.”

Mean Stories Lying Father Promise Liars Omission Justine

Author:Justine Larbalestier

Source: How to Ditch Your Fairy

“My father is a man of impeccable character who has worked tirelessly for the United Nations for many years. His integrity is beyond reproach.”

Men Years Character Father Nations United Integrity United Nations Reproach Impeccable

Author:Kojo Annan

“My father is a man with a great capacity for love and a huge heart, which has led him to be somewhat of a lothario, but at the same time, he's genuine. He's far more loving and kind than I could ever be. As selfish as he is, he is an extremely giving person. He's just 100 percent in every direction.”

Men Giving Heart Kind Persons Father Huge Percent Capacity Selfish Genuine

Author:Jake Busey

“My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.”

Ifs Trying Persons Moments Lasts Father Names Mistake Ready Tough Manage That Moment Mentor Marvelous

Author:Brian Roberts

“My father is a massive, massive music fan. I grew up listening to rock, soul and jazz.”

Soul Father Fans Rocks Listening Grew Grew Up Jazz Massive Music Fans

Author:Kieran Hebden

“My Father is a photographer, so it was always around. I was trained in painting, so I learnt a lot of skills about composition, light, colour, the formal attributes of images.”

Light Father Painting Skills Photographer Colour Attributes Composition Formal

Author:Patricia Piccinini

“My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.”

Law Father Areas Criminals Attorney Seattle Criminal Law Practicing Law

Author:David Guterson

“My father is a real idealist, and he's all about learning. If I asked for a pair of Nikes growing up, it was just a resounding 'No.' But if I asked for a saxophone, one would appear and next day and I'd be signed up for lessons. So anything to do with education or learning, my father would spare no expense.”

Ifs Real Next Father Growing Up Growing Lessons Pairs Expenses Spares Next Day Idealist Saxophone Nike

Author:Hugh Jackman

“My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.”

Years Lasts Guy Father Talking Personality

Author:Donald Trump, Jr.

“My father is a university professor so when the schools needed a little kid for their productions I was often the kid they used. The first time I was ever on stage was about 2nd grade.”

Firsts Littles Kids School Used Father Stage Needed First Time University Productions Grades Professors Little Kid University Professors

Author:Michael Cerveris

“My father is a very theatrical and dramatic person.”

Persons Father Dramatic Theatrical

Author:Viva Bianca

“My father is a violinist and my mother is a pianist, so I've been hearing music all my life. I started playing at three and had my first music teacher at five.”

Firsts Mother Three Father Five Teacher Hearing Pianist Violinist Music Teacher Hearing Music

Author:Michala Petri

“My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.”

Years Wells Doe Has Beens Art Book Different Artist Father Known Growing Up Growing Effects Painting Paint Well Known

Author:John Dyer

“My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.”

Men Father Deals Stones Farms Sheep Quarry

Author:PJ Harvey

“My father is also gifted at business, which is a blessing and a curse, because if you have the kind of mind that he does where you can do anything very well, that in its own way is sort of limiting.”

Mind Kind Father Blessing Curse

Author:Peter Vack

“My father is an absolute inspiration and such a gifted filmmaker. I have learned and continue to learn so much from him.”

Inspiration Father Absolutes Filmmaker I Have Learned Gifted

Author:Hrithik Roshan

“My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.”

Want Said Stories Used Actors Father Saws Television Goes On Awe

Author:Gabriel Macht

“My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.”

Giving Wanted School Jobs Young Actors Found Father Week Months Six High School Shots Theater Agents Agency Los Angeles Six Months

Author:Jensen Ackles

“My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.”

Father Proud

Author:Zinedine Zidane

“My father is an amazing fighter and what he's already accomplished is nothing short of remarkable.”

Father Fighter Accomplished Remarkable

Author:Eric Trump

“My father is an amazing man.”

Men Father Amazing Man

Author:Sherman Alexie

“My father is an apparition, and my mother is semiconscious.”

Family

Author:Jessica Warman

Source: Breathless

“My father is an atheist. My mother is Buddhist. They encouraged my siblings and me to take the best part of other religions to make our own belief system.”

Mother Father Belief Atheist Buddhist Sibling Belief Systems My Siblings

Author:Winona Ryder

“My father is an economist who specialized in foreign food policy, and my mother worked for AID, a branch of the State Department, so food in regards to world affairs was talked about a lot.”

World States Mother Father Policy Regard Affair Aids Branches Department Economist World Affairs

Author:Jennifer Gilmore

“My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob.”

Men Should Father Responsibility Brother Intellectual Appearance Combination My Brother Unusual Brothers And Sisters

Author:Christopher Reeve

“My father is best known for his light comedies, and Im best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.”

Light Guy Father Known Comedy Crazy Temper Bad Guys Short Temper

Author:Vincent Cassel

“My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.”

Kind Two Mother Father Black Community White Answers Caught Lone Rangers Lone Ranger

Author:Wentworth Miller

“My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.”

Lasts Mother Father Names Born Half Raised Chinese Greek Germany Hawaii Filipino

Author:Mark Dacascos

“My father is conservative but has always supported my decisions. He lets me take my own decisions. His only condition while allowing me to come to Mumbai was that my mother must accompany me.”

Mother Father My Own Decision Conditions Let Me Conservative Allowing Accompany Mumbai

Author:Priyanka Chopra

“My father is Cuban. Spanish was my first language, but I don't speak it that much anymore because I had dyslexia, and in school they work with you only in English. But I'm proud to be Latina, and most people don't know I am.”

People Knows Firsts School Father Speak Language Proud Cuban Latina Dyslexia

Author:Bella Thorne

“My father is doing a radio program - classical music. He has a beautiful speaking voice and that's his passion in life, his music. My mother lives in Melbourne and is an avid photographer. She's also started writing for a magazine out there and she submits poems, very funny ones, and articles. In some way or other, my family is always doing something with the media.”

Way Writing Beautiful Mother Passion Father Voice Media Program My Family Photographer Radio Magazines Articles Submit Classical Music Avid Melbourne

Author:Olivia Newton-John

“My father is from Copenhagen and he lived there until he was in his late 20s. We always grew up with a lot of Danish culture at home. My mother is Jewish but we always celebrated Christmas because we loved the traditions of Danish Christmas.”

Home Mother Culture Father Grew Late Grew Up Tradition Danish Copenhagen

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.”

Wells Mother Father Ireland Scotland Somewhere Else Newark

Author:Ali Smith

“My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.”

Want Father Blood Conversation Affection Relative Bores Incapable Carrying On Blood Relatives

Author:Kurt Cobain

“My father is Italian, and I never met my paternal grandparents. The family name was Caroselli and it was changed in the mid 50s. I think they wanted to assimilate, which was pretty common, although I love the name Caroselli.”

Thinking Wanted Father Names Common Changed Mets Italian Grandparent Family Name

Author:Steve Carell

“My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.”

Whole Father Half My Family Texas Mexican Antonio San Antonio

Author:James Roday

“My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.”

Looks Mother Father British Extraction

Author:Joan Collins

“My father is more likely to throw me in the ocean than throw me a ball.”

Princess Fathers And Daughters Daddy Issues For The Throne Royal Ball

Author:Hannah F. Whitten

Source: For the Throne

“My father is much more into forgetting and forgiving, but I'm much more into revenge.”

Father Forget Forgiving Revenge

Author:Gaspar Noe

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