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My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

~Amy Sedaris

Topics: Along Always Father Good Good Relationship Got Him Relationship Scold Very

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My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'

~Amy Sherald

Topics: About Any Artist Attitude Being Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Dentist Doctor Father Him Like Me Movement Really Rights Rights Movement Wanted You

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My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like '365 Stories' out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems - like a wheel coming off their bicycle.

~Amy Tan

Topics: About Bicycle Brother Coming Day Did Family Father Followed He Kids Like Loud Off Older Older Brother Only Out Page Problems Read Related Religion Set Simple Something Stories Things Time Us Were Wheel Year

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I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Afraid Always Been Brother Deaths Failure Father Hope More Prepared Rejection Since Somebody Success Than Think Who I Think

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My mother left behind three daughters when she went to America and started a new life. I certainly felt abandoned when my father died of a brain tumour; I felt he had abandoned me to this terrible, volatile mother and I had no protection.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Abandoned America Behind Brain Certainly Daughters Died Father Felt Had He Left Life Me Mother New New Life Protection She Started Terrible Three Volatile

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I grew up with Bible stories, which are like fairy tales, because my father was a minister. We heard verses and prayers every day. I liked the gorier Bible stories. I did have a book of Chinese fairy tales. All the people except the elders looked like Italians. But we were not a family that had fiction books.

~Amy Tan

Topics: Because Bible Book Books Chinese Day Did Elders Every Every Day Except Fairy Fairy Tales Family Father Fiction Grew Had Heard Italians Like Liked Looked Minister People Prayers Stories Tales Up Verses Were Which

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I didn't join a bank because my father worked in a bank or because I thought I was going to be a banker or because I thought I was going to be where I am today.

~Ana Patricia Botin

Topics: Am Bank Banker Because Father Going Join Thought Today Where Worked I Am

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I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Father Long Long Time Long Time Ago Loving Pattern Remained Slavery Stopped Time

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The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

~Anais Nin

Topics: Absence Child Confronted Created Father Fatherless Godless His Human Left Man Recognized Then Who

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In America, where no one judged or supervised her, where my father was too busy eating her cooking to notice whether she was eating it, too, my mother found herself newly enchanted by the taste of food.

~Anand Giridharadas

Topics: America Busy Cooking Eating Enchanted Father Food Found Her Herself Judged Mother Newly Notice She Taste Too Where Whether

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