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“I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mum, too, but there were areas that she and I did not share. So his loss to me was huge, personally and professionally. He believed in me, not just as a father, but as a director, and that always meant a lot.”

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Author:Natasha Richardson

“My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.”

Government Father Teacher Areas Behaviour

Author:C. L. R. James

“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 mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.”

Wells Mother Father Havens Areas West South British Indian Montana Dakota South Dakota West Indies

Author:Richie Havens

“When, President Bush asks me to go with his father to the Tsunami impacted areas and help raise money, I was thrilled to do that, because I think we have to always keep looking for common ground.”

Thinking Helping Asks Father President Common Areas Raises Ask Me President Bush Common Ground Tsunami

Author:William J. Clinton

“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

“You start questioning yourself: Who am I? Where do I belong? Where am I going? Why is my city divided? Why are we not allowed to enter in certain areas? We used to ask my father why the Christians lived in another neighborhood and didn’t come to our neighborhood. I think my father was trying to avoid having us think about these issues.”

Thinking Trying Christian Used Certain Asks Father Cities Issues Areas Neighborhood Divided Questioning

Author:Rula Jebreal

“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 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.”

Firsts Book Hard Law Father Fiction Study Taught Areas Decided Police Series Criminals California Procedures Detectives Expertise Fiction Writers Criminal Law Detective Fiction

Author:Sue Grafton

“My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.”

“My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.”

People Thinking Mean States Father Office Adults Areas Constant Ran Engaged Tension

Author:Jeff Sessions

“It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too.”

Children Book Philosophy Father Written Areas Eastern Philosophy And Religion Eastern Philosophy

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.”

Ifs Thinking Father Support Broken Mom Areas Harder Structure Partners Construction Single Mom Being A Single Mom

Author:Bridget Moynahan

“I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.”

Years Used Father Grew Grew Up Areas Wilderness Safari Rhodesia

Author:Wilbur Smith

“You know Balbec so well - do you have friends in the area?' I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinacy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.' That is not what I meant,' interrupted my father, as obstinate as the trees and as pitiless as the sky.”

Knows Wells Together Father Company Tree Sky Areas Touching Wounded Interrupted Obstinate Obstinacy

Book:In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's

Source: In Search of Lost Time: The Way by Swann's

“Far too often, we fathers avoid the subject because it's so awkward. The subject I am referring to is: buying gifts for women. This is an area where many men do not have a clue. Exhibit A was my father, who was a very thoughtful man, but who once gave my mother, on their anniversary, the following token of his love, his commitment, and-yes-his passion for her: an electric blanket.”

Men Mother Passion Father Subjects Commitment Areas Following Thoughtful Buying Awkward Electric Clue His Love Blanket Exhibits Fathers Day Referring Tokens Very Thoughtful Electric Blankets

Author:Dave Barry

“I understood that my family was rich in love but would probably never own the land my father, John, dreamed of owning. My mother, Willie Ella Mays Clarke, was a washerwoman for poor white folks in the area of Columbus, Georgia where the writer Carson McCullers once lived.”

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Author:John Henrik Clarke

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