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I cast my first vote on my father's lap in 1960, for Richard Nixon, in the voting booth. I was 8.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Booth Cast Father First Lap Nixon Richard Richard Nixon Vote Voting

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The tradition of putting candles on Christmas trees actually began in Germany. The person who came up with the idea is thought to have been Martin Luther, father of the Reformation.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Actually Been Began Came Candles Christmas Father Germany Idea Luther Martin Martin Luther Person Putting Reformation Thought Tradition Trees Up Who

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My father would have been impressed by Barack Obama's mind and style and grace of manner, as well as by - I'm certain - his abilities as a writer.

~Christopher Buckley

Topics: Ability Barack Been Certain Father Grace His Impressed Manner Mind Obama Style Well Would Writer

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My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

~Christopher Durang

Topics: Actually Another Architect Attentive Charming Deeply Father Got He Knew Know Mother Pleasant Profession Respectable Side Think Thought Which

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The film is about Joe discovering who his mother and father are and his relationship with them, and the identity crisis he goes through once he finds out who his parents are.

~Christopher Eccleston

Topics: About Crisis Discovering Father Film Finds Goes He His Identity Joe Mother Mother And Father Once Out Parents Relationship Them Through Who

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My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Actually Although Appears Before Began Bill Cause Christmas Drama Father Frail Frame Had He Just Kind Man Muscular Old Old Photographs Photographs Possess Problem Some

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My father worked in a scientific lab where he designed and built glass instruments. He was regarded as brilliant at his job and once constructed a human brain in glass just to show off his skills.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Brain Brilliant Built Constructed Designed Father Glass He His Human Human Brain Instruments Job Just Lab Off Once Regarded Scientific Show Show Off Skills Where Worked

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By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.

~Christopher Fowler

Topics: Arm Books By The Time Every Every Time Father Form Go Grammar Grammar School Him Local Me Money Passed Reached School Sixth Stack Time University Warning Would

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Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my lifetime my ear has been well-tuned to that accent. Any first generation kid has that wonderful gift from their parents.

~Christopher Heyerdahl

Topics: Accent America Any Been Degrees Ear Father First First Generation Generation Gift He Kid Lifetime Norwegian Over Parents Speaks Still Well Who Wonderful 1950S

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My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

~Christopher Hitchens

Topics: Am Become Cancer Died Father Had He Kind Life May Race Swiftly Too Very Whatever I Am

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