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While my mother is from Jammu, my father was originally from Afghanistan, as my grandfather was the governor of five provinces there, including Herat.
Adnan Sami
Mother
Father
Provinces
Governor
Five
Afghanistan
While
Grandfather
Including
Originally
My father was a great connoisseur of music and arts. He said, 'I will encourage you in anything you do, but make sure you get a solid education.' So, I studied in the finest schools and went on to become a qualified barrister but didn't take up law because my music was my area of interest.
Adnan Sami
Education
Music
Great
You
Law
Father
Will
Become
Solid
Finest
Area
Take
Studied
He
Qualified
Schools
Make
Sure
Because
Said
Encourage
Up
Get
Arts
Anything
Interest
Connoisseur
In Argentina, you do what your father does. If your father plays football, you play football. If your father plays polo, you play polo.
Adolfo Cambiaso
You
Father
Argentina
Football
Does
Polo
Your
Play
Play Football
Plays
I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!
Adoniram Judson
Time
Generation
Genius
Father
Every
Meeting
Say
Giants
Rising
Takes
Himself
Repeat
His
Edward
Erudition
Hold
After
Evening
Henry
Twinkle
My father is my father, and I am me. I have the advantage of this honest comparison, quiet, and the opportunity to share in his profession.
Adriano Giannini
Me
Opportunity
Father
Share
Advantage
Am
His
Quiet
Profession
Comparison
Honest
You go to a theater, you're in a darkened room, and you watch someone that you don't really know how many children they have or what their father's nickname might be; you don't have references and databases and rumors and half-truths - you're just transported by their storytelling.
Adrien Brody
You
Father
Rumors
Someone
Databases
Know
How
Go
References
Just
Children
Theater
Storytelling
Room
Might
Really
Many
Nickname
Watch
The loss of my father will always sting. But now, everything that I do is in honor of him and celebrates his life.
Adrienne C. Moore
Life
Father
Honor
Will
Everything
Him
Always
His
Loss
Sting
Now
I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.
Agnes Macphail
Mother
Father
First
Once
Out
Stuck
Parliament
First Place
Got
Owed
Place
Elected
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
Agnes Smedley
Family
Class
Mother
Father
Affection
Considered
Sign
Weakness
Would
Kissing
Like
Disaster
Caught
Been
Disgrace
Show
Shown
My father was Greek, but he turned French during the war, and my mother was French. So I'm French, but I have Greek blood.
Agnes Varda
War
Mother
Father
He
French
Blood
Greek
Turned
I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.
Ahmet Zappa
Life
Science
World
Father
Own
Experiment
Think
Kids
Ourselves
Had
He
Discover
Experiences
Wanted
Us
Appreciated
My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.
Ahmet Zappa
Work
Day
Father
Dinner
Breakfast
All Night
Would
Beef
Often
Might
Us
Night
Pancakes
Sleep
I lost my father when I was barely 10.
Aishwarya Rajesh
Father
Lost
Barely
Apparently, my father was funny. I didn't really know him, but people have theories that the gag-smith gene trickles down through the blood amongst other terrible traits like a big nose and a temper.
Aisling Bea
Funny
People
Father
Big
Down
Other
Temper
Gene
Through
Like
Know
Terrible
Him
Blood
Traits
Nose
Really
Theories
Apparently
Amongst
My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.
Ajay Mehta
Sports
Human Being
Brilliant
Father
Directed
He
Performed
Academics
Wrote
His
Very
Human
Arts
Being
Regiment
Special
English
Plays
My mother enjoyed acting as well with my father, who used to direct her in plays at his regiment. My sister is an excellent singer. However, it was only me who decided to pursue acting as a career.
Ajay Mehta
Me
Mother
Father
Sister
Direct
Only
Excellent
Pursue
Singer
Well
However
His
Decided
Regiment
Acting
Used
Who
Her
Enjoyed
Career
Plays
Losing my father at a tender age was hard, and I felt it more so while growing up when I needed a father to talk to. Especially while pursuing an acting career where I would have loved his guidance and advice, since it was his passion as well.
Ajay Mehta
Age
Guidance
Passion
Losing
Father
Advice
Would
More
Tender
Pursuing
Since
Talk
Well
Felt
His
Up
Where
Loved
While
Acting
Acting Career
Hard
Growing
Growing Up
Career
Needed
I don't consult anyone - not my mother, not my father, anyone - about my work. And I must add that neither Dad nor Mom interfere in my work.
Akkineni Nagarjuna
Work
Mom
Mother
Father
Add
Neither
Must
About
Consult
Nor
Anyone
Interfere
Dad
I joined Khalsa College just opposite Don Bosco in class XI, but soon I quit studies and was sent to Bangkok by my father to learn martial arts, as that is the only place we could afford given that I would also work there to support my training.
Akshay Kumar
Work
Class
Training
Father
College
Would
Martial
Martial Arts
Given
Only
Joined
Could
Studies
Support
Soon
Also
Learn
Opposite
Afford
Bangkok
Quit
Just
Arts
Place
Sent
My father made false teeth. Unfortunately, during the Depression, not many people could afford them, and my parents lost their home.
Al Feldstein
Depression
Home
People
Father
Made
Parents
Lost
Teeth
Could
False
Afford
Unfortunately
Them
Many
Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she was delivering a speech there.
Al Michaels
Father
College
National
Security
Johnson
Delivering
Town
She
Smith
Adviser
Because
Condoleezza
Condoleezza Rice
National Security
Rice
Her
Right
Speech
James Brown became my father. He would talk to me the way a father talked to a son. He became the father I never had.
Al Sharpton
Me
Son
Father
Way
Would
Brown
Never
Had
He
Talk
Talked
Became
James
James Brown
Like myself, President Obama is the father of two daughters. He understands the obstacles that they face as women, but he also understands the emergency of the state of young black men in America.
Al Sharpton
Myself
Women
Father
Black
Men
Face
Young
President
State
President Obama
Obama
Emergency
Daughters
He
Obstacles
Like
Also
Understands
America
Two
Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
Alafair Burke
Love
Father
Reading
Nothing
Worse
Scene
Written
Than
Love Scene
Your
I have my granddad's record collection, which I treasure, and my father's - Rolling Stones to Sidney Bechet.
Alaina Huffman
Father
Collection
Record
Record Collection
Rolling
Stones
Rolling Stones
Which
Treasure
My father paid for my education; then he made it clear that I was on my own.
Alain de Botton
Education
Father
Made
Own
My Own
He
Clear
Then
Paid
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