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My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting.

~Gavid Hood

Topics: Against Camera Elephant Experience Father Film First Game Lens Much Reserve Sit Some Still Through Very Wait Waiting Watching Whatever Will Would

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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: Anything Back Been Father Federal Federal Government Government Gun Hook Inability Mesmerized Safety Sandy Sat Since

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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

~Gavin Newsom

Topics: European Even Father He Loves San Some Though Very Ways Wine

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I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.

~Gayle King

Topics: Always Am Details Engineer Father Felt Flew Full Gave Get Glamorous Golden Growing Growing Up Grown-Up Infidelity Just Me Mystery Only Pan Period Plot Right Set Show Stop Those Turkey Up Very Watching Were Wings Worked

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No woman in Afghanistan is in business without support from either her husband or her father or her uncle, someone.

~Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Topics: Afghanistan Business Either Father Her Husband Someone Support Uncle Without Woman

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My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

~Geena Davis

Topics: Both Chopped England Everything Father Food Grew Heated House Mom New New England Old-Fashioned Our Parents Vermont Very Were Wood

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I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to my husband to all of my brothers. They are true heroes!

~Gena Showalter

Topics: Amazing Because Brothers Characters Father Heroes Husband Just Maybe Most Most Amazing See Surrounded Them True Way Write I See

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Both my mother and my father grew up in Asia, in a time of political instability. They'd earned college degrees before setting foot in the States but had to work menial jobs early on in order to make ends meet.

~Gene Luen Yang

Topics: Asia Before Both College Degrees Early Earned Ends Father Foot Grew Had Instability Jobs Make Meet Mother Order Political Setting States Time Up Work

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I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me.

~Gene Tierney

Topics: Annoy Father Felt Him How How Much Luck Me Much Telling Used

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I've lived in 11 states, but I'm not an Army brat. My father couldn't hold a job, so every six months, we'd move.

~Geneva Carr

Topics: Army Brat Every Father Hold Job Lived Months Move Six States

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