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I come from a simple background, so I couldn't call my father and say, 'Come pay my bills,' so I had to get out there and work.
Camila Alves
Work
Simple
Father
Pay
Background
Say
Out
Had
Come
Call
Get
Bills
My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
Camila Alves
Daily
Me
You
Cleaning
Queen
Care
Father
Become
Before
Own
Restaurants
Take
Never
Had
Take Care
Knew
Learn
Houses
Always
How
Done
Really
Working
Your
Daily Basis
Things
Started
Basis
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.
Camille Paglia
Myself
Me
Father
Be Prepared
Put
Like
Boy
Fists
Up
Times
Child
Taught
Prepared
Defend
My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
Camille Paglia
Family
Father
College
First
Immigrant
Factory
He
Go
Italian
Shoe
Grandfather
Worked
I am a drug expert and the father of 3 black males.
Carl Hart
Father
Black
Am
Males
Expert
It's one thing for a father to say, 'Oh, my son is great.' But to have others say it - that's the true reward. Robbie's one of the smartest people I know. He's made such fantastic movies.
Carl Reiner
Great
Son
People
Reward
Father
Made
Others
Say
One Thing
He
True
Smartest
Know
Oh
Movies
Fantastic
Thing
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.
Carla Bley
Teacher
Music
You
Learning
Walk
Old
Father
Free
Piano
Instead
Learn
Because
Got
Were
Years
Lessons
Play
Started
Pinocchio, spurred on by the hope of finding his father and of being in time to save him, swam all night long.
Carlo Collodi
Hope
Time
Father
Long
All Night
Finding
Him
His
Spurred
Pinocchio
Being
Night
Save
I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
Carlo Rubbia
Teacher
School
Mother
Engineer
Father
Local
Telephone
Born
Small
Small Town
School Teacher
Town
Italy
Electrical
Company
Elementary
Elementary School
March
My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose track at that point.
Carlos Mencia
Great
Father
Lose
Ancestry
Point
Weird
Track
Great-Grandfather
Because
Islands
His
Grandfather
Then
Really
England
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
Carlos Slim
Old
Father
Young
Passed
Years
Very
Away
My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.
Carly Simon
Mother
Father
Everything
Classical
About
Pianist
Singer
Just
I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'
Carmen Busquets
Fashion
Father
Party
Furious
Spending
Say
Would
Would-Be
Emergency
Student
Had
Always
Go
Miami
Used
University
My father was the king of the joke-tellers. I was so impressed as a child watching him, holding people in rapt attention.
Carol Leifer
People
Father
King
Holding
Attention
Him
Impressed
Child
Watching
My father was a huge influence on me.
Carol Leifer
Me
Father
Huge
Huge Influence
Influence
My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it.'
Carol Leifer
Father
Joke
Say
Out
Kind
Guy
Throw
Always
Got
Subject
Any
Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
Carol Leifer
Life
Death
Age
Acceptance
People
Father
My Life
Lost
Finding
Parent
Attached
Had
He
Naive
Obviously
Accept
Around
Always
Very
Just
The Hardest Thing
Different
Notion
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
My father worked in high-energy nuclear physics, and my mother was a mycologist and a geneticist. After both parents completed postdoctoral fellowships in San Diego in 1962, my father took a faculty position in the Physics Department at Yale, and so the family moved to New Haven, Connecticut.
Carol W. Greider
Family
Physics
Mother
Father
Parents
Took
Completed
Haven
Both
Faculty
New
Geneticist
Yale
Department
Diego
Moved
After
San
San Diego
Worked
Connecticut
Nuclear
Nuclear Physics
Position
Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that.
Caroline Corr
Together
Mother
Father
Band
Keyboards
Though
Kids
Jobs
Piano
Had
Stuff
Like
Also
Singer
Because
Were
Yes
Regular
Played
The happiest years of my mother's life were spent in Washington, D.C. It was where she met my father, where John was born and where I spent my earliest years.
Caroline Kennedy
Life
Mother
Father
Met
Spent
John
Born
She
Were
Years
Where
Happiest
Washington
Earliest
I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.
Caroline Kennedy
Great
Justice
Rights
Generation
Women
People
Father
Think
Civil
Civil Rights
Inspired
Through
He
Equal
Equal Justice
Passed
America
Children
Transformed
Grandchildren
Our father has always been very passionate about taekwondo. In all honesty, we were forced into it without a choice. He would train us every other night at home, so we would always be perfecting our technique.
Caroline Marton
Home
Honesty
Father
Every
Other
Our
Our Father
Would
About
He
Perfecting
Forced
Without
Always
Passionate
Were
Been
Very
Train
Us
Choice
Technique
Night
My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.
Carre Otis
Law
School
Father
Parents
Francisco
East
Law School
Only
Both
Could
Had
Go
Were
Moved
San
San Francisco
When my father came out to his mom, my grandmother said, 'You waited for your father to die; why couldn't you have waited for me to die?' I knew then that I never want to contribute to the corrosiveness of wanting someone to stay hidden.
Carrie Brownstein
Mom
Me
You
Father
Hidden
Out
Stay
Someone
Never
Knew
Said
Came
His
Waited
Contribute
Die
Want
Wanting
Then
Grandmother
Your
Why
I'm from a family with five kids in it, and my father almost became a Catholic priest. And my mother never went to church, but she's the best Christian I know. My siblings have all chosen different paths to or away from their spirituality.
Carrie Coon
Best
Family
Mother
Father
Church
Spirituality
Christian
Kids
Never
Priest
Almost
Know
She
Catholic
Became
Five
Paths
Different
Chosen
Away
Sibling
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.
Carrie Fisher
Life
Father
Spirit
Thrust
He
Know
Joyous
Well
Terrible
Up
Just
Elbows
Really
Enjoyed
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