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My father was a progressive farmer, and was always ready to lay aside an old plough if he could replace it with one better constructed for its work. All through life, I have ever been ready to buy a better plough.

~Andrew Taylor Still

Topics: Always Aside Been Better Buy Constructed Could Ever Farmer Father He Lay Life Old Plough Progressive Ready Replace Through Work

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I was a total music nerd. I grew up on Perry Street in the '80s. My father wrote books about jazz, so I was always at the 'Village Vanguard.'

~Andrew Wyatt

Topics: About Always Books Father Grew Jazz Music Nerd Perry Street Total Up Vanguard Village Wrote

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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

~Andrew Wyeth

Topics: Active Aloud Became Father History Imagination Me Read Reader Shakespeare Tales Those Very Wonderful World Would

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All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

~Andris Nelsons

Topics: After Beethoven Both Came Composers Even Father Father Figure Figure Generations He His Influenced Lifetime Music Personality Were Who

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Dinner 'conversation' at the Cohens' meant my sister, mom, and I relaying in brutal detail the day's events in a state of amplified hysteria, while my father listened to his own smooth jazz station in his head.

~Andy Cohen

Topics: Amplified Brutal Conversation Day Detail Dinner Events Father Head His Hysteria Jazz Listened Meant Mom Own Sister Smooth State Station While

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I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay.

~Andy Garcia

Topics: Children Courage Everything Exile Father Freedom Had His Leave More Mother Sacrifice Stay Than Three Took Twelve Wife

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My grandfather was a very elegant individual. My father also. He was a lawyer and farmer in Cuba. In Miami, he had to go to work wherever he could. But whenever it was time to go out, you saw how they cared for how they looked.

~Andy Garcia

Topics: Also Cared Could Cuba Elegant Farmer Father Go Grandfather Had He How Individual Lawyer Looked Miami Out Saw Time Very Whenever Wherever Work You

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One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

~Andy Murray

Topics: Although Better Bits Family Father Had Love Loved Mother Mother And Father One Of The Things Things Together Worked Would I Love

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I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

~Andy Partridge

Topics: Father Guitar Influential More Play Starting Suppose

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It was a fairly happy childhood. My father was working away, and my mum brought up five kids all on her own.

~Andy Serkis

Topics: Away Brought Childhood Fairly Father Five Happy Happy Childhood Her Kids Mum Own Up Working

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