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My father was an attorney in the state of New York, which is where I came up with the term 'advocate.'
Paul Heyman
Father
State
Term
New
Attorney
Advocate
Came
Up
York
New York
Where
Which
Curtis Axel has more talent than his grandfather and his father.
Paul Heyman
Father
More
Talent
His
Than
Grandfather
Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.
Paul Hoffman
Man
Change
Father
Single
Thinking
Other
States
Those
More
Leaders
Concept
Single Man
His
Yes
Than
Efforts
Any
Europe
Helped
Jean
European
United
United States
I knew medicine only by its absence - specifically, the absence of a father growing up: one who went to work before dawn and returned in the dark to a plate of reheated dinner.
Paul Kalanithi
Work
Dark
Father
Dinner
Before
Medicine
Only
Absence
Dawn
Knew
Returned
Up
Who
Plate
Growing
Growing Up
Specifically
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business.
Paul Lynde
Business
Father
Disapproval
His
Interest
Show
Show Business
Adamant
Like my father, Trump also understands working-class Americans.
Paul Manafort
Father
Like
Also
Understands
Trump
American
Working-Class
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.
Paul Mellon
Vision
Father
National
Other
Hunch
Way
Would
Collectors
Had
He
Come
Him
Proved
His
Interest
Them
Gallery
Persuade
Lucky
Right
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
Paul Mellon
Hope
Father
Become
National
Living
Static
Ours
Would
General
General Public
Scholars
Institution
Importance
Artists
Public
Gallery
Usefulness
Growing
I found my father through other people, through my older brothers, my high school coaches, so I had men influences along the way who helped me.
Paul Pierce
Me
People
School
Father
Men
Older
Other
Way
High
Brothers
High School
Through
Had
Along
Influences
Coaches
Who
Helped
Older Brothers
Found
I want to be the dad that my father never was.
Paul Pierce
Father
Never
Want
Dad
My father worked in a tyre factory. My mother worked as a teacher.
Paul Polman
Teacher
Mother
Father
Factory
Worked
My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.
Paul Rudd
Life
Father
Parents
Few
Married
Until
Passed
Were
Years
Years Ago
Whole
Away
I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He'd say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?
Paul Simon
Time
You
Father
Drive
Damn
Say
Tell
Attached
Driveway
He
Wrong
House
Another
Houses
How
Used
Lived
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
Paul Wolfowitz
Life
Science
Political
Try
Father
Thought
My Life
Year
Throwing
Had
He
Political Science
Away
My father was a very unhappy person, very sarcastic, and my mother was very nervous and worried about what people thought. They weren't monsters, but it wasn't a good childhood.
Paula Danziger
Good
People
Mother
Unhappy
Father
Thought
Nervous
Monsters
Worried
About
Were
Very
Person
Childhood
Good Childhood
Sarcastic
When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.
Paula Danziger
Myself
Me
Book
Father
Would
Someday
Yell
Use
My father took my mother, me, and my brother from Sicily to New York. He got us one-way tickets but booked himself a return flight. He dumped us with my mother's parents, who had just arrived from Italy, and abandoned us. That was 1986. I didn't see or speak to him for another 12 years. That's cruel.
Paulie Malignaggi
Me
Speak
Mother
Father
Parents
Took
Booked
Abandoned
Brother
See
One-Way
Had
Cruel
He
New
Tickets
Him
Return
Himself
Another
Got
Arrived
Years
Italy
Dumped
York
Just
New York
Us
Flight
Who
Sicily
I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all.
Pawel Pawlikowski
Time
Family
Religion
You
Mother
Father
Secular
Free
Nothing
Extreme
Kind
Spirit
About
No Time
Free Spirit
Had
He
Environment
Know
Catholic
Version
Up
Very
Just
Grew
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 was so obsessed with film and actors that I wasn't a very good student. I was always in trouble, but my father would always take us to the movies.
Pedro Pascal
Good
Father
Trouble
Would
Good Student
Student
Take
Obsessed
Always
Very
Movies
Us
Film
Actor
I want my son - and my kids, if I have more - to grow up in a way that is as anonymous as possible. The fact that his father and I have chosen to do the work that we do doesn't give anybody the right to invade our privacy.
Penelope Cruz
Work
Privacy
Son
Father
Our
Way
Kids
Possible
Invade
Give
More
Fact
Anonymous
His
Up
Anybody
Want
Grow
Grow Up
Chosen
Right
I had a very difficult father. I lived in a war zone. My parents were very unhappy, and I lived through my mother's pain. Throughout my childhood, I was constantly trying to protect her from my father.
Penny Junor
War
Mother
Unhappy
Father
Parents
Pain
Difficult
Constantly
Through
Throughout
Had
Protect
Were
Very
Trying
Childhood
War Zone
Lived
Her
Zone
My house is full of paintings by my mother Pam. She was a fantastic, prolific artist but had no confidence in herself, thanks to my father running her down. They married during the war when she was 19 - she had planned to go to art school. But my father didn't want her to work, so she became a housewife.
Penny Junor
Work
War
Art
Confidence
School
Mother
Father
Thanks
Down
Herself
Prolific
Married
Running
Had
House
She
Became
Housewife
Go
Art School
Artist
Want
Fantastic
Planned
Full
Paintings
Her
Pam
My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well educated. My mother was a hairdresser who sang every day.
Pepe Serna
Day
Every Day
Mother
Father
Every
Latin
Latin American
He
Hairdresser
Well
Well-Educated
Educated
Pilots
Very
American
Sang
Who
Naval
Base
Interpreter
I grew up in the city. Both my mother and father were factory workers, and I loved the life in the 'metro.' Everybody saw me as a very urban guy. And I was.
Per Petterson
Life
Me
Mother
Father
Mother And Father
Everybody
Saw
City
Guy
Both
Factory
Were
Metro
Up
Very
Grew
Loved
Urban
Workers
To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.
Per Petterson
Happiness
Family
Happy
Remember
Mother
Father
Mother And Father
Think
Other
Else
Say
Diminish
Out
Married
Never
Divorced
Taking
Been
Hand
Up
Than
Any
Anyone
Happier
Interesting
Should
Many
Moments
Even
Growing
Growing Up
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