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My grandfather died when I was 12, but I remember the sorrow of my mother. Even now, she's an old lady, but when she speaks about her father, she looks young. A love like that is undefeated, you know?

~Claire Denis

Topics: About Died Even Even Now Father Grandfather Her Know Lady Like Looks Love Mother Now Old Old Lady Remember She Sorrow Speaks Undefeated You Young I Remember

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When I was a child I had a nightmare, and in the morning, I asked my mother and father, 'If I kill someone, would you still love me?' My parents were very preoccupied with this, but I think I'm not the only one to ask for that - not love, but absolute fidelity.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Absolute Ask Asked Child Father Fidelity Had Love Love Me Me Morning Mother Mother And Father Nightmare Only Parents Preoccupied Someone Still Think Very Were Would You I Think

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A father who sees his daughter leave in the arms of another man does not feel the same as a mother. It is heartrending for her, too. But it is not the same.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Another Another Man Arms Daughter Does Father Feel Her His Leave Man Mother Same Sees Too Who

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My mother's father was from Brazil - a painter, and not a famous one - and was always broke. But he was a free spirit, a great grandfather.

~Claire Denis

Topics: Always Brazil Broke Famous Father Free Free Spirit Grandfather Great He Mother Painter Spirit

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I thought she was just the Queen and he was Prince Philip, and that was just who they were, without thinking about them as a mother or a father or daughter.

~Claire Foy

Topics: About Daughter Father He Just Mother Philip Prince Queen She Them Thinking Thought Were Who Without

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I liked the idea of being from 'somewhere else.' I do think that's inherited. My father never had a fixed sense of where home was, and for my sister and me, it is much easier not to belong than to belong.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Being Belong Easier Else Father Fixed Had Home Idea Inherited Liked Me Much Never Sense Sister Somewhere Somewhere Else Than Think Where

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When you move around a lot, there are little bits of you from everywhere. I mean, my father's French, and I speak French, and there's a kind of struggle in me that says, 'I'd like to be French.' But I've never been fully part of that culture, that role.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Around Been Bits Culture Everywhere Father French Fully Kind Like Little Lot Me Mean Move Never Part Role Says Speak Struggle You

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Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Because Father First French School

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It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.

~Clancy Brown

Topics: Adult Also Comfort Confidence Could Father Frustration Gonna Know Life Like Look Much Pretty Son Used

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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

~Clara Barton

Topics: Blood Father Patriot Veins Warm

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