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We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

~David Lagercrantz

Topics: Anything August Biographies Crime Dinner Ever Famous Father Had He Home James Joseph Joyce Like Never Novels Over Read Sweden Wanted World Writer Writers Wrote

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I want to be read, and I certainly want to sell, but I also see my father's eye from Heaven: 'Always write quality. It doesn't matter if you sell; if it's good, it's good - if you capture the complexity of life.'

~David Lagercrantz

Topics: Also Always Capture Certainly Complexity Eye Father Good Heaven Life Matter Quality Read See Sell Want Write You

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My dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.

~David Lauren

Topics: Best Best Friend Boss Dad Exciting Father Feels Friend Good He Imagine Likes Something Three Times You

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My parents were born and brought up in New York City. My father was trained as an electrical engineer, and my mother was an elementary school teacher. They were the children of Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States from England and Lithuania in the late 1800s.

~David Lee

Topics: Born Brought Children City Come Electrical Elementary Elementary School Engineer England Father Had Immigrants Jewish Late Mother New New York New York City Parents School School Teacher States Teacher Trained United United States Up Were Who York

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A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.

~David Lowery

Topics: Aspire Because Believe Catholic Exists Faith Father Great Great Sense Human Instilled Intrinsic Me Moral Morality Participate Particularly Quality Sense Separate Should Something Theologian Through Understand Upbringing I Believe

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The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

~David Lynch

Topics: Cutting Father Greatest Greatest Thing Left Love Me Pine Thing Wood

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As a kid, I was always building things. My father had a shop in the house, and we built things - we were kind of a project family. I started out as a painter, and then painting led to cinema, and in cinema, you get to build so many things, or help build them.

~David Lynch

Topics: Always Build Building Built Cinema Family Father Get Had Help House Kid Kind Led Many Out Painter Painting Project Shop Started Them Then Things Were You

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I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

~David Mccullough

Topics: Advantage Education Father Had Humanities Just Lucky Mother Stars Thank

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I was an at-home father, taking care of them for seven years when they were babies. I was one of those new-age, at-home dads.

~David Means

Topics: Babies Care Dads Father Seven Taking Them Those Were Years

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Iggy Pop is a pure Michigan product - gritty, smart, but not afraid of looking stupid or foolish. His father was once a high school English teacher. I love Iggy as a physical entity, sinewy, twisty - even in old age - an embodiment of rock and roll history.

~David Means

Topics: Afraid Age Embodiment English English Teacher Entity Even Father Foolish Gritty High High School His History Looking Love Michigan Old Old Age Once Physical Pop Product Pure Rock Rock And Roll Roll School Smart Stupid Teacher I Love

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