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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

Artistic Came Did Ever
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I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

Example Father Had Just
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Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.
Bad BadMood Father Lot
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My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

Father Like Pants Same
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I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job.

Am Behind Designer Excited
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

My Father Didn't Know
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.

About Behind Came Changed
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

Ancestry Beyond Blurred Cannot
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When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

Advice Dr Father Go
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Because Detailed English EnglishTeacher
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

Always Education Father Honor
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My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

After Failure Father He
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizen.

Citizen Family Father Mother
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I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Because Else Father Japanese
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In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

Tradition Jewish Dying Piety
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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.

Am Anymore Because Cuban
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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.

Father Love Death Field
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Collar Brother Came Dude
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Angeles Aunt Father Grade
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Boy Child Defend Father
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My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

My Father Never Knew
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I don't think my father was my mentor.

Father Think Mentor
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.

Actor Anything Believed Both
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When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.

When Brought Home Percent
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My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

My Father Raised Me
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My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960.

Actively Activist Came Father
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He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.
Adorable Because Father Get
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My father... gave me a positive connection with men because he is a gentleman.

Because Connection Father Gave
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When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.

Cousin Date Father Girl
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.

Adamant Father Follow Footsteps
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I idolize my father. I mean, he has worked so hard in his life.

Idolize Father Mean Worked
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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.

Elbows Enjoyed Father He
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My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

Father Say Secondary See
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My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

Father Raised Children Self-defense
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Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

Badly Cried Dark Everyday
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I just wish I could understand my father.

Could Father Just Understand
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My father is my idol, so I always did everything like him. He used to work two jobs and still come home happy every night.
Father Idol Work Two
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I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.

Daughter Father Example Me
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My father always said, Malala will be free as a bird.
Father Always Said Free
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My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess.

Black Father Guess Irish
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I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

Always Anything Back Been
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

Against Because Certainly Created
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I've always had the greatest respect for and listened to both my father and my mother. I've always tried to follow my parents' advice because these are people who want the best for me.

Advice Always Because Best
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My father has been by my side since I was little. He takes care of things, my finances and my family.

Been Care Family Father
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I always make my decisions together with my family, my father. Of course, I hear the advice of everyone who wishes me well, but the final decision is always mine, with my family.

Advice Always Course Decision
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My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Also Background Education Family
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Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Enjoyed Father Hunting Growing
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I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life.

Any Choice Father Freedom
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I've always been quite driven. I take after my father.

After Always Been Driven
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.

Away Born College Congress
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