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My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin. Paul Ryan

Life Me My Life Lawyer Lost Sister Think Brothers He Wisconsin Named Come Like Until Also Him Gentle Sure Because Proud Where Paul Dad Presence

I love putting paint on canvas, getting lost in the process of painting. Paul Simonon

Love Lost Painting Putting Getting Process Canvas Paint

When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. Paul Theroux

There was a time in Amir Khan's career when you had to fight him; you couldn't really box him. You wouldn't see Amir take beatings: if he lost, he would just get caught and stopped. It was hard to catch him clean and keep up with him in the ring because he was such a dynamic fighter. Paulie Malignaggi

Time You Fight Lost Fighter Khan Would Ring See Clean Take Had He Catch Him Box Because Caught Up Get Just Stopped Dynamic Really Hard Keep Career

What's been lost is allowing cinema to be artful, playful, to have ambiguity, to have form, to be contemplative, to wish to be art. This slightly timeless approach to reality, like Chekhov in literature, where you look at all humanity and try to find what's transcendent. Pawel Pawlikowski

Art You Reality Humanity Cinema Try Wish Lost Approach Slightly Find Allowing Like Contemplative Look Chekhov Been Ambiguity Timeless Artful Transcendent Where Form Literature Playful

I was too ashamed and afraid to confide in friends, and wanted to convince others and myself that my marriage was a success. I lost myself in my writing. Finding ways for my characters to overcome their problems and make their relationships work helped plaster over the wound caused by my inability to make things right at home. Penny Jordan

Success Work Myself Home Marriage Writing Overcome Problems Lost Too Others Relationships Ways Characters Wound Finding Over Make Caused Friends Confide Afraid Wanted Inability Ashamed Convince Helped Plaster Right Things

I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my first memories is of them listening to a game on the radio and screaming at the radio. My brother would cry when they lost, and when I was really little, I didn't know why he was crying. Penny Marshall

Game Memories Listening Fans First Lost Bronx Would Brother Born He Know Cry Crying Yankees Were Huge Screaming Little Them Grandfather Really Radio Why Garry Raised

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society. Pervez Musharraf

Lost Doubt Society Our No Doubt Dead Greater Because Said Pillars Loss Families Inflicted Who Pakistan Suffered

There's this romantic idea that's built up around war. But the pragmatic view is there are tons of people of my generation who have lost their lives, lost their marriages, or lost their health as a consequence of being sent to wars which could have been avoided. Pete Buttigieg

War Health Generation People Lost Marriages My Generation Could Idea Around Pragmatic Built Been Up Being Romantic Which Sent View Avoided Who Wars Lives Consequence Tons

My father lost his leg in 1927 playing soccer. A kick broke his leg; gangrene set in. They sawed it off. So he didn't get what a lot of Irish immigrants got, which was a job on the Waterfront - he didn't get that. Pete Hamill

Father Job Lost Waterfront Kick Broke Immigrants He Got His Lot Off Irish Leg Get Which Soccer Playing Set

I accomplished what I set out to do, but I lost my discipline and my career. Pete Maravich

Discipline Lost Out Accomplished Career Set

It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled. Pete Sampras

You Man Respect Focus Lost Few Bit Kind Easy Restless Having Having Fun Glad Retire Feel Got Years Get Done After Unfulfilled Little Little Bit Fun

Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps. Peter Abrahams

Lost Own Changed Carried Bootstraps Dream Magic Them Much Many

For me, personally, life in South Africa had come to an end. I had been lucky in some of the whites I had met. Meeting them had made a straight 'all-blacks-are-good, all-whites-are-bad' attitude impossible. But I had reached a point where the gestures of even my friends among the whites were suspect, so I had to go or be forever lost. Peter Abrahams

Life Attitude Me Impossible Made Met Lost South Africa Meeting Some Point Had Come Reached Go Were Been South End Friends Forever Gestures Suspect Africa Where Straight Them Personally Whites Lucky Even Among

Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid. Peter Agre

Depression Age Mother Lost Farm Herself Maid Had Support She Because Place Grandfather Worked Her Assistant

Al-Qaeda, which means 'the base' in English, lost its base and training camps in Afghanistan, while its leaders were on the run, captured, or dead. One year after the 9/11 attacks, al-Qaeda was still on life support. Peter Bergen

Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back. Peter Bondra

It's easy to give up, and that's the one thing we cannot do. That's what gives me a reason for working: to leave people with a little more courage, with a little hope that has been nourished. Even if, of course, it's going to disappear, whatever touches one isn't lost forever. Peter Brook

Hope Me Courage People Lost Whatever We Cannot Has-Been One Thing Easy Give More Gives Disappear Course Leave Been Up Forever Going The One Thing Cannot Little Working Reason Nourished Even Thing

I've lost count of the times I've been asked to 'be' Malcolm Tucker: to go on a political program on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him. Peter Capaldi

Character Political Lost Television Presumably Give Count Him Opinions Go Malcolm Been Times Tucker Order Asked Program

When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive. Peter Jackson

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