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My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

~Alex Grey

Topics: Artist Encouraged Father His Life Path Professional Who

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I was 19 when my father died from a heart attack. He was a 55-year-old college professor and had led what was by all appearances a risk-free life. But he was overweight, and heart disease runs in our family.

~Alex Honnold

Topics: Appearances Attack College Died Disease Family Father Had He Heart Heart Disease Led Life Our Overweight Professor Runs

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I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

~Alex O'Loughlin

Topics: Boy Father He Physics School Son Sydney Teacher Teaches

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My father played baseball. That's what I know to do. That's my gift. God has given me the greatest gift. And that's what I love to do.

~Alex Rodriguez

Topics: Baseball Father Gift Given God Greatest Greatest Gift Know Love Me Played I Love

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'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.

~Alex Wolff

Topics: Because Bit Book Brother Catcher Catcher In The Rye Down Family Father Favorite Grandfather Honestly Me Older Older Brother Passed Read Then Thirteen

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My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.

~Alexa Chung

Topics: Draw Eternally Father Grateful Horses How Me Shall Taught

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I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

~Alexa Ray Joel

Topics: Because Contract Doing Father Get Good Handed Long Long Time Me Nobody Recording Time Who Worked

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My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

~Alexander Downer

Topics: Alec Father Had He House House Of Representatives Known Me Member Name Representatives Same

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Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

~Alexander Downer

Topics: Able Answer Any Anything Anything Else Ask Asked Away Because Doing Else Father Felt Grew Growing Growing Up How Idea Inability Just Like Me Never No Idea Often Otherwise People Politician Question Really Reflect Relative Sense Up Well Who Would

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From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

~Alexander Graham Bell

Topics: Attention Bearing Childhood Directed Earliest Everything Father Important Professional Relating Speech Study Subject Subjects Urged Work Would

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