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As a father, I've tried to encourage my children to have a broader and deeper emotional life than I've had. I want my sons to be able to express their feelings about things.

~Andre Braugher

Topics: Able About Broader Children Deeper Emotional Emotional Life Encourage Express Father Feelings Had Life Sons Than Things Tried Want

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Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Expecting Father Sometime Somewhere Stopped

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One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Accidental Because Been Brought Dad Father Fortune Gives Good Good Fortune Had Joy Joys Life Lovely Me Readers Some Surprisingly Tell Work Writing You

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Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

~Andre Dubus Iii

Topics: Children Dating Dinner Divorce Early Every Every Sunday Father Had He Hear Him His Later Left Meant Money Picking Say Somewhere Still Sunday Up Us Would Years

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When my twin grandchildren, Linda and Lyeke, were born two years ago, it changed me. I felt it was the essence of what life is about, and I cried all day. When my son Pierre, their father, was born I didn't cry like that.

~Andre Rieu

Topics: About All Day Born Changed Cried Cry Day Essence Father Felt Grandchildren Life Like Linda Me Son Twin Two Were Years Years Ago

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When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.

~Andre Rieu

Topics: Attended Audience Concerts Encore Father Happening He Often Played Saw Something Very

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My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure - it was a very unintellectual household - but my mother did read to us when we were little, and that's how I started to read.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Did Divorced Family Father Household Housewife How Largely Little Mother Pleasure Read She Started Until Us Very Were

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I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.

~Andrea Barrett

Topics: Act Always Battle Book Constant Down Father Find Go He Less Like Lot Me More More Or Less Mother Normal Normal Person Outside Passionately Person Place Put Read Reading Saw Searching Tell Time Very Whenever Where Would Young

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I loved riding bikes and horses. I was eight when I started having lessons, and when my father bought me my own horse I couldn't wait to go off on my own.

~Andrea Bocelli

Topics: Bikes Bought Eight Father Go Having Horse Horses Lessons Loved Me My Own Off Own Riding Started Wait

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My father did advertising photography.

~Andreas Gursky

Topics: Advertising Did Father Photography

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