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“My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15.”

Hard Home Mother Father Industry Coming Home Aircraft

Author:Jeremy Irons

“My father was a deeply committed humanitarian. He was a fighter for social justice. He was spirited in the deepest sense.”

Father Social Justice Social Justice Committed Humanitarian Fighter Spirited

Author:Marianne Williamson

“My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.”

Men Father Sentimental

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“My father was a deeply spiritual, prophetic man, [who] I adored. I watched him pray as a boy and wanted to know the "Jesus" he shed tears for.”

Knows Men Wanted Spiritual Father Jesus Boys Tears Praying Shed Prophetic

Author:Jonathan Cain

“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.”

Way Important Father Interesting Communication Aspect Dentist Interesting Ways

Author:Frank Luntz

“My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.”

Home Mother Father Housewife Dentist

Author:Laurie Simmons

“My father was a diplomatic officer. As a diplomat's daughter, you have to learn to present yourself very early on.”

Mother Father Daughter Officers Diplomatic Diplomats

Author:Kathleen Turner

“My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.”

Should Jobs Used Father Directors Unions Actresses

Author:Katey Sagal

“My father was a doctor,' she says, 'a very kind man. He died in the early '70s, relatively young.' She taps the cigarette packet on the table. 'Of lung cancer.' 'Oh.' 'But the thing about that is,' she says as she exhales, 'it doesn't take very long at all.”

Death Dying Cancer Suicidal Die Young Death Wish Slow Death

Author:Anna Funder

Source: Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

“My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor.”

Age Used Father Kings Doctors

Author:Joan Rivers

“My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.”

Father Doctors Army Cardiologist

Author:Deepak Chopra

“My father was a doctor.”

Father Doctors

Author:David Alan Grier

“My father was a doctor. He was just a great guy, a gentle humanist, and an old-fashioned GP. He'd get up at three in the morning to see patients in different areas if they needed him.”

Ifs Different Guy Three Father Morning Needed Areas Doctors Patient Get Up Gentle Humanist Old Fashioned Gps Great Guy

Author:Roselee Goldberg

“My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'”

Ends Bigs Guy Father Lines Hero Smart Tough Like Me Dreamer Socialist My Hero Poland Tough Guy Handbags Cutters

Author:Alan King

“My father was a dreamy fellow - he read Plato and Socrates and watched Phillies games.”

Father Games Fellows Plato Dreamy Plato And Socrates

Author:Patti Smith

“My father was a drill sergeant, and I've always had that mentality drilled into me of 'you've got to do better, you've got to do better.' I just try to listen to the characters. That's what works for me.”

Trying Character Father Mentality Drills Sergeants Drill Sergeant

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.”

Mother Humanity Father Childhood Grateful Parenting Very Good Farmers Fathers Day Gladness

Author:Roberto Benigni

“My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.”

Said Wanted Film Death Father Directors Shots Makers Backwards Cliffs Legendary Framing

Author:A. A. Gill

“My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff.”

Used Father Causes Stuff Grew Grew Up Fishes Stealing

Author:Michael Caine

“My father was a forest entomologist, which means he was aware that spraying forests for spruce budworm was counterproductive in that it didn't really work, and it killed everything else in the forests, and it wasn't good for the people who were exposed to it, either. So he was an early proponent of not doing that, but, of course, nobody listened.”

People Mean Courses Father Forests Exposed Counterproductive

Author:Margaret Atwood

“My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.”

Thinking Writing Wanted Father Novel Frustrated Great American

Author:Anne Waldman

“My father was a general manager with Hyatt, so we lived in the hotel so he would be close by if there were any problems. My mum was always adamant about us not abusing it. So I still had to clean my room. Housekeeping would never come and do it.”

Ifs Stills Problem Would Be Father Rooms Clean Managers Hotel Mum Housekeeping Adamant General Manager

Author:Dianna Agron

“My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany.”

School Law Young Mother Father Boys Mets Towns Golden Boat Germany Village Small Town Scholarship Law School Prestigious Nyu Greenwich Greenwich Village Golden Boy

Author:Blake Bailey

“My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.”

Littles Father Bits Drama Little Bit Preacher

Author:Jayne Meadows

“My father was a great actor.”

Actors Father Great Actors

Author:Stephen Humphrey Bogart

“My father was a great example of a strong and good man and Christian man, and my mother taught all my six sisters how to be young ladies and mothers and how to take care of your family. And so I think they were - they still are - great examples for all of us to their kids and to the world, too.”

Thinking Men World Stills Care Kids Christian Young Mother Father Strong Inspiring Example Taught Six Take Care Good Man Mothers Day Be Young Young Ladies

Author:Magic Johnson

“My father was a great fan of the horses. His only regret was that I never ran in the Grand National.”

Father Fans Regret Horse Ran Great Fans

Author:Steve Ovett

“My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.”

Has Beens Father Daughter Conservative Could Have Been Public Life Innovators

Author:Rose Kennedy

“My father was a great man, a hero, so they say. But sometimes the world doesn't need another hero, sometimes what it needs is a monster.”

Bram Stoker

Author:Dracula Untold

“My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.”

Father Player Standards Raised Guitar Guitar Player High Standards Guitar Playing

Author:Billy Corgan

“My father was a guy most comfortable in the company of bricklayers and carpenters and electricians. And I have a lot of that in me also. I love those people.”

People Guy Father Company Comfortable Carpenter Electrician Bricklayers

Author:Donald Trump

“My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.”

Looks Guy Father Dinner Restaurants Hotel Serving Hospitality Waiter Wallets Differentiate

Author:Steve Tisch

“My father was a history professor, and my mother a housewife—" She married a house?”

Mother Father House Married Professors Housewife

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

Source: Fantasy Lover

“My father was a huge influence on me.”

Father Influence Huge

Author:Carol Leifer

“My father was a jazz listener, and I think, at least before I was 5, I was not so into that. Although there were records that emphasized percussion that I liked, like Baby Dodds.”

Thinking Father Records Baby Jazz Listeners Percussion

Author:Wallace Shawn

“My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.”

Firsts Bigs Eye Father Sound Records Player Listening Grew Band Grew Up Ears Jazz Caught Brown Illinois Tenors Coltrane Brownies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in business to show I could do something different, but the reaction among prospective employers was, shall we say, underwhelming.”

Years Different Shows Father Careers Streets Reactions Journalist Employers Leeds Fleet Street

Author:Lionel Barber

“My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.”

Knows Wells Spirit Father Terrible Enjoyed Joyous Thrust Elbows Hedonist

Author:Carrie Fisher

“My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.”

Father Interest Knowledge My Family Lawyer

Author:George Andrew Olah

“My father was a lawyer.”

Father Lawyer

Author:Pat Robertson

Source: The Turning Tide

“My father was a lesson. He had his own bakery, and it was closed one day a week, but he would go anyway. He did it because he really loved his bakery. It wasn't a job.”

Jobs Father Week Dad Lessons One Day Bakeries

Author:Christopher Walken

“My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.”

Littles Father League Affected Dictator Arbitrary Unreasonable Impunity Little League

Author:Junot Diaz

“My father was a local radio celebrity in the Albany area while I was growing up. That was his dream when he was a boy. I learned from him that some dreams are attainable and the penalty for inaction is regret.”

Dream Father Boys Growing Up Growing Regret Areas Radio Locals Penalties Inaction Albany

Author:Jonathan Weeks

“My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.”

Knows Men Used Father Cutting Mines Needed Track Woods Occupation Collars Rail Railroads Timber Lumber Railroad Tracks

Author:Ralph Stanley

“My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.”

Home Running Kids Mother Next Father House Individual Attention Survival Meals Drivers Lorry

Author:Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

“My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.”

“My father was a man of few words.”

Men Father Few Words

Author:Ken Venturi

“My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.”

Men Children Father House Poor Compassion Brother Sick Slave Charity Treated Servant Belonging Tenderness

Author:Teresa of Avila

Source: The life of Saint Teresa of Jesus

“My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.”

Men Hard Remember Father Fields Dad Crosses Unkind Unkind Words

Author:Johnny Cash

“My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.”

Thinking Men Different Happens School Young Father Parent Boys Grew Grew Up Theater Towns Eight Young Man Sibling My Siblings Theater Family

Author:John Lithgow

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