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My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the piano of a famous Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko, playing an instrument known as a bandura. I remember that one kind of resonated with me; it was always central in the living room. Edward Burtynsky

Me Remember Walls Father Poet Living Our Ukrainian Kind Some Above Piano Instrument Known Always Amateur Were His Famous Oil Central Room Painter Paintings Living Room Playing

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal. Edward G. Robinson

Father Black Collector Uncles Friends Trying Turned Zeal Satisfy Lungs

My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director. Edward Tufte

Life Director Engineer Father His Governments Public Worked Works

I don't know whether there is anyone else at all who remembers my noble father with such sadness. Egon Schiele

Sadness Father Else Remembers Noble Know Anyone Anyone Else Whether Who

What I learned from my father is to think big. Eike Batista

Father Big Think Learned Think Big

My husband has an outstanding record in promoting opportunity for women and the women that he surrounds himself in his staff and the women that he has promoted throughout his career. He's the father of three daughters. He's obviously a husband who's been very supportive of a very active wife with her own career. Elaine Chao

Women Opportunity Father Wife Husband Three Own Active Promoted Promoting Record Daughters Throughout He Outstanding Supportive Obviously Himself Been His Very Surrounds Staff Her Career

Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there. Elaine Chao

Work Day School Surgeon Father Memphis Born Hazard She Graduate Moved James Aspiring Medical Her Medical School Recent

I grew up in Douglasville, Georgia. My father played football for the Atlanta Falcons. We lived a bunch of places when I was younger. I was born in California. We lived in Chicago for a little bit, and finally, we ended up in Georgia. Elana Meyers

Father Finally Bit Atlanta Born Football California Chicago Georgia Up Bunch Ended Grew Places Little Little Bit Younger Lived Played

How rude would I be, walking around and saying: 'Hello. I'm Eleanor Mondale. My father was vice president of the United States. Treat me differently.' Eleanor Mondale

Saying Me Treat Father Rude President States Would Around How Walking Vice Vice President Hello United United States Differently

I do not think that I am a natural born mother... If I ever wanted to mother anyone, it was my father. Eleanor Roosevelt

Natural Mother Father Think Born Am Wanted Anyone Ever

Neither of my parents are involved in theater or acting, but they are very artistic. My mom is a painter; she's an artist. She went to school for fashion illustration. My father is into collecting antiques and fine wine, so they're both really creative people. Elena Kampouris

Fashion Mom Creative People School Father Wine Parents Illustration Collecting Neither Fine Both Involved She Very Antiques Artist Artistic Theater Really Acting Creative People Painter

Part of me always felt like the other, the outsider, the observer. My father had two sons with his second wife, who I didn't meet until my late 20s. I was always on the periphery. In Madrid, I was the only Turk in a very international school, so I had to start thinking about identity. All these things affected me. Elif Safak

Me School Father Wife Thinking Other Late Meet Madrid About Only Had Outsider Part Observer Sons Like Until Identity Periphery Felt Always Affected His Very Who International Things Start Second Two

There are two different ways of writing a novel. The first I call the traditional father way, when the novelist slightly situates himself or herself above the text and knows what each and every character is going to do. It's a bit like engineering. I've never felt close to that tradition. I like the second way, which relies a bit more on intuition. Elif Safak

Character Writing Father First Engineering Every Herself Way Bit Ways Slightly Intuition Above More Never Like Call Himself Knows Felt Tradition Traditional Text Close Going Different Which Novel Each Novelist Different Ways Second Two

My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports. Elizabeth Banks

Me Sports Father Made Long Before Favorite Introduced Horse Horse Racing Sport Huge Role Fan Bigger Racing Even

My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents. Elizabeth Diller

Family Mother Father Mother And Father Out Uncles Through Wiped Never Had Knowing Been Aunts Up Grew Holocaust Grandparents

My father had gone to Vietnam. Elizabeth Edwards

Father Gone Had Vietnam

When I felt rather overcome with my father's opposition, I said as firmly as I could, that I must have this or something else, that I could not live without some real work. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Work Overcome Father Live Else Must Some Something Something Else Rather Could Firmly Felt Without Said Real Opposition Real Work

People assume that because I was brought up on Rolling Stones tours, and my father is who he is, I'm some kind of rock-and-roll bad girl. Elizabeth Jagger

People Father Girl Assume Kind Bad Bad Girl Some Brought He Tours Because Up Rolling Stones Rolling Stones Who

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