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Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
Paul Ryan
Life
Mom
Morning
Business
New Life
Degree
Every
Earned
Madison
Small
Small Business
New
She
Learned
Got
Years
Rode
New Skills
Died
Just
Bus
Skills
Miles
Each
Dad
Each Morning
Livelihood
Her
Start
When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I've gone on. I certainly don't feel I need his approval, although maybe that's because I'm confident that I've got it.
Paul Theroux
Writing
Gone
Approval
Some
Writer
Rivalry
Feel
Him
Although
Because
Got
His
Did
Confident
Maybe
Literary
Notion
Certainly
Less
Dad
Started
Need
The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.
Paul Walker
Me
Thought
Scary
Being
Whole
Dad
Me and my buddies are all like brothers. So it's okay for us to say 'I love you' or whatever. It's always cool. I think that comes from my dad. That's just the way he always was.
Paul Walker
Love
Me
You
Whatever
Think
Way
Say
Okay
Brothers
He
Buddies
Like
Always
Just
Love You
Us
Cool
Dad
I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.
Paula Pell
Funny
Mom
Extremely
Super
Up
Grew
Dad
I was always a total ham, but my dad really taught me that.
Paula Pell
Me
Total
Always
Ham
Taught
Really
Dad
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.
Pauline Phillips
Sad
Mom
Parenting
Advice
Young
Our
Must
Seek
Counsel
Instead
Dear
Commentary
Times
Going
Mom And Dad
Dad
My dad is so impressed. He loves the movies and would take us two, three times a week, so this fantasy of mine of becoming an actor? I can blame my father for that. He's so amazed. And so happy.
Pedro Pascal
Happy
Blame
Father
Three
Mine
Would
Week
Take
He
Becoming
Amazed
Impressed
Times
Loves
Movies
Fantasy
Us
Dad
Actor
Two
I lived at home off and on until I was 37. I have about a million college credits. I'd worry about writing about anyone else because I'd be invading their privacy, but you can use your mom and dad and their dog for everything!
Peggy Rathmann
Home
Mom
You
Privacy
Writing
Dog
College
Else
Everything
Worry
About
Invading
Until
Because
Off
Anyone
Anyone Else
Use
Your
Mom And Dad
Dad
Lived
Million
Credits
This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.
Penn Jillette
You
Money
Made
Year
Few
Guard
Must
Horrible
More
Lifetime
Know
Couple
Make
How
Sound
How Much
Dollars
His
Than
Going
Jail
Much
Even
Dad
Ever
Million
Million Dollars
Need
I happily went on holiday with my parents until I was 18, because we always had such a good time that I didn't want to venture off and do my own thing. I have very fond memories of those holidays with my brother, mum, and dad.
Penny Lancaster
Time
Good
Memories
Parents
Good Time
Own
Those
Brother
Fond
Fond Memories
My Own
Had
Until
Venture
Because
Always
Off
Very
Want
Holiday
Happily
Holidays
Dad
Mum
Mum And Dad
Thing
I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue.
Pete Townshend
Home
Me
Musicians
Dance
Band
Other
Backstage
Post-War
Feel
Like
Know
Venue
Always
Up
Any
Grew
Really
Who
Dad
Played
I think you need something to take care of in order to figure out who you are as a person, and in that way, being a dad has levelled me out more than anything. You've just got to be good for that person no matter what's going on in your head that day.
Pete Wentz
Good
Day
Me
You
Matter
Care
Think
Way
Out
Something
More
More Than Anything
Take
Take Care
Head
Got
Than
Person
Going
Just
Being
Order
Anything
Your
Figure
Who
Dad
Need
We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
Peter Agre
Christmas
Bible
Dinner
Had
Read
Always
Norwegian
After
Which
Dad
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.
Peter Agre
Education
College
Important
Chemistry
Active
Society
Member
Minnesota
Had
He
Chemical
Saint
Textbook
Very
American
Committee
Oxford
Where
Then
Who
Sat
Dad
Professor
Phenomenally
I don't want to be knocked out. But the contact and the focus and the energy I get from sparring gives me energy to make movies, energy to be a dad, energy to be a friend, and, you know, makes me feel, probably, a lot younger and behave a lot younger than I am.
Peter Berg
Me
You
Focus
Energy
Out
Gives
Contact
Feel
Knocked
Know
Make
Makes
Am
Lot
Friend
Than
Get
Behave
Want
Movies
Younger
Sparring
Dad
The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.
Peter Bergen
Man
Beard
Old
Final
Channels
Though
Footage
Remote
Himself
Another
His
Years
Just
Suburban
Aging
Flipping
Dad
Bin
Image
Watching
If I played badly as a kid, my dad would tell me, and my mum would say, 'You were brilliant today'. It's nice to have both: when I need a bit of confidence, I'll see her, and if I need to hear it straight, I'll see my dad.
Peter Crouch
Today
Me
You
Confidence
Brilliant
Nice
Say
Bit
Kid
Tell
Would
See
Both
Badly
Were
Hear
Straight
Dad
Mum
Her
Played
Need
Dad loves my stuff. No matter how many times my voice cracks or I miss a tap, he doesn't care. He's like some businessman making it to his kid's recital.
Peter DeLuise
Matter
Care
Recital
Kid
Some
Voice
He
Miss
Stuff
Like
How
Making
How Many Times
His
Tap
Times
Cracks
Loves
Businessman
Many
Dad
I love playing a dad. It's hard to find family dramas that are genuinely funny.
Peter Gallagher
Love
Funny
Family
Dramas
Find
Genuinely
Hard
Dad
Playing
I think we were born 6 feet tall and then started to grow from there. My dad's not particularly tall - only 5 feet, 11 inches - but his mother was almost 6 feet and straight as a ramrod: a German woman who used to scare the hell out of me.
Peter Graves
Me
Woman
Mother
Hell
Think
Out
Scare
Born
Only
Almost
Feet
Particularly
Tall
Were
His
German
Straight
Then
Used
Inches
Who
Dad
Grow
Started
Most young people haven't used their storytelling skills since they were 8 or 9 or 10 and wanted to persuade Mom and Dad to take them to the ball game.
Peter Guber
Mom
Game
People
Young
Take
Since
Most
Ball
Ball Game
Were
Wanted
Young People
Storytelling
Them
Persuade
Skills
Used
Mom And Dad
Dad
My dad's wife, my stepmom, is a serious painter. My dad also paints. My mother is a brilliant sculptor, and her husband is a sculptor.
Peter Heller
Mother
Brilliant
Wife
Husband
Also
Sculptor
Painter
Paints
Serious
Dad
Her
I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things.
Peter Jackson
Love
Mom
Garden
Old
Car
First
Television
Out
TV
Puppet
Puppet Show
Would
About
Trucks
Fell
House
Toys
Came
Been
Years
Stories
Little
Used
Show
Dad
Play
Things
Watching
British
As a dad I'm emotionally dedicated but I'm not 'figuring out their life plans'. But of course as I'm telling them about the rights of wrongs I'm thinking back to what I was like at their age.
Peter Mullan
Life
Rights
Age
Thinking
Back
Out
Telling
About
Emotionally
Like
Wrongs
Course
Them
Plans
Dedicated
Figuring
Dad
My mom and dad? Oh, they were a fiery pair. They stayed together for the kids and also because they were hopelessly in love with each other, but they were totally incompatible.
Peter Scolari
Love
Mom
Together
Other
Kids
Hopelessly
Stayed
Totally
Also
Because
Were
Oh
Fiery
Mom And Dad
Each
Pair
Dad
Incompatible
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