Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.
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Related His dad died when my dad was in his second year on a football scholarship at the University of Wisco... GLORIA LEE I had to turn down a part in 'Empire of the Sun.' It would have paid £15,000, which wa... MARK RYLANCE Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the... LAURA DERN tickets were offered to the staff at the original price paid for them. JANN WENNER One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called... DESMOND DEKKER He's followed in his father's steps. Young Hoover has topped his dad, and his dad was an icon in his... JIM HAGGERTY One year my dad offered for him to come and live with us again but he refused. He said was fine wher... MARIA RUVALCABA I was the No. 1 seed the last two years in the discus at the state meet and didn't win. My sophomore... MICHAEL ZAJAC I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop fo... ROY BLUNT I told his dad when Chris was a freshman that he was going to break my record. BILLY WILLIAMS My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew ... KIERA CASS My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that... ORLANDO BLOOM It was a very different type of persona than Dad is normally known for, MICHAEL DOUGLAS My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My da... TONY HALE Before breaking into music, I had various jobs: forklift driver, driving a courier. But I was forced... GARY NUMAN When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really ... ADAM DEVINE I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coole... ADAM SANDLER Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was m... LYLE LOVETT And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstr... JACKSON BROWNE My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fiftee... MICHAEL MOORE My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. ... PETER HELLER My parents got divorced when I was around a year old. My dad was essentially a nonentity in my life ... TUCKER MAX My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the dri... KATE WALSH At first, I had to think about the venue, and where it was going to be at. I know the kid's mom and ... AARON BRINK I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was prett... CHARLES KURALT I was at Home Depot with my dad looking for paint when I got the call to open for Taylor Swift. That... CHARLIE WORSHAM People tell me I look angry. I thought my dad was mad at me his whole life, but it turns out that wa... BEN FOSTER My dad was an amazing father. He was very loving and supportive. He was the best dad you could ever ... KRISTIN HAWKINS For those who thought it was going to be some kind of a snow job because it was paid for by the cabl... PAUL SIMON My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me... PAM FERRIS If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be h... HANNA ROSIN My dad was a mime and then he had his company and created plays for children and was very successful... MARION COTILLARD When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid &poun... IRVINE WELSH So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer g... BILLY SHERWOOD My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I ... NATALIA TENA I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. ... ANN ROMNEY I was always going to church with my mom, dad and sister. I was literally raised under the godly inf... BOBBY BOWDEN The Christmas after Mom & Dad split up, they both went crazy buying us presents. Matt, Jonny, an... SUSAN BETH PFEFFER My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could... VERNON WELLS I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wonderin... DAVID CONE I quit 'Qubool Hai' at the right time. When 'Alone' was offered to me, I was learnin... KARAN SINGH GROVER A faint light burned in the pit revealing a furry creature hunched over a stone slab, fiddling with ... SUZANNE COLLINS Pro was excited about the letter, ... Was it unexpected? Probably. When his dad came in the room he ... MIKE SHULA Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of Lo... PATSY KENSIT I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and,... GORDON PARKS My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but H... ROBBIE COLTRANE I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun - I li... MILLIE BOBBY BROWN Dad was at his desk when I opened the door, doing what all British people do when they're freaked ou... RACHEL HAWKINS My dad was always snoozing on the couch, like Dagwood Bumstead. He was a lazy motherfucker. God bles... JAMES ELLROY Mum and Dad paid me 50 pence, which was a lot of money when I was 8 years old, not to dye my hair. ROSE LESLIE That was the very lowest point in my life. I just couldn't stop crying. ... My dad got his dentures ... BERNADETTE PEREZ He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'
(on his 11-year-old son's... JIM COLLETTO My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never... BRAD PITT When he was still my coach, I knew he would be on the staff at Arkansas somehow. But I decided to op... MITCH MUSTAIN I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge... KURT RUSSELL I think it was hard at first for my dad to transition to being immobile. JEB BUSH He came very close to playing for Notre Dame. We offered him (a scholarship), we wanted him, but I j... GREG MATTISON My dad was an adventurer, my mother a romantic. When they met in college, both were creative writers... BRIAN HERBERT I couldn't help but feel a little smug at the prospect of finding my phone this way. I was going to ... K.J. MCPIKE When it was 1-1, I thought something special was going on here . . . for about a minute. JASON CIRONE When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and ... CARA DELEVINGNE My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad, ... That's his job, you know, to take care of me.... JESSICA SIMPSON I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never ma... HOWARD SCHULTZ My dad wasn't thrilled at my wanting to act. He even offered to pay for a computer course if I'd cha... MARCIA GAY HARDEN I got some very good champagne for the guys back in Denver when I went over 1,000 yards last year. B... REUBEN DROUGHNS I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic bo... LEN WEIN As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the thea... ZACH BRAFF When I was 13, I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a job... ASHTON KUTCHER My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. O... NICK FERGUSON When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and Wh... RACHEL TUCKER My dad was an assembly line worker at AC Spark Plug, which was a division of General Motors, and his... MICHAEL MOORE My dad and his brothers were involved in amateur dramatics. From an early age, I was dragged along t... TOM GLYNN-CARNEY My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football... IAN MCSHANE My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but &... ROBBIE COLTRAINE I didn't have a lot to do. Dad felt I was too young to go to college; I didn't have a job, and the n... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the... TONY SCOTT When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one d... CHARLIE BEWLEY Me being a black girl in London, whose mom is first-generation African and whose dad is West Indian,... ESTELLE My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a ve... SAM SHEPARD What happened was that because my dad had made 'Sesame Street' and it was a huge hit, everyone said,... BRIAN HENSON When I was at school studying biology, I wanted to be a medical researcher. I did work experience at... KATHERINE PARKINSON [Ronaldo has returned to his native Madeira for the funeral and Fergie admitted he was not sure when... FERGIE I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they wou... LYNNE TRUSS If I knew the Virgin Mary grilled cheese sandwich was going to be somewhere, I'd go look at it. But ... WADE JONES I remember being in St. Lucia and my dad taking me out on a jet ski. I was very young, too young, bu... ALFIE ALLEN I went home one night and told my dad that an older kid was picking on me. My Dad, a Korean War vet ... STEVE WILKOS I think his first year at Florida was our last year at Auburn. And the only other time was in 1966 -... LARRY BLAKENEY My mom was a singer in Chicago and still is a cabaret singer, and she was very theatrical. And my da... HAYES MACARTHUR I was only 18 and I'd be 22 if I was competing at London. I'm stronger and more experienced ... BILLY JOE SAUNDERS My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting ch... RACHEL SKLAR I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adole... TUCKER ELLIOT My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned ... DAVE BRUBECK My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you e... RICK SMOLAN Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said "Eat your peas." Ba... BILL WATTERSON I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've al... FAITH PRINCE My dad brought 'Clerks' to Sundance 22 years ago, and that's when his career started. HARLEY QUINN SMITH When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in ... BAT FOR LASHES I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, '... JIDENNA He's very close to his dad, his step-dad and his stepmom, JULIE WHITE It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and m... MEGHAN MARKLE
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pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,
as in love or sleep, holds
them to the... WENDELL BERRY Those who say Islam is a warlike religion
must ask if Christianity has been as well. WENDELL BERRY Until we end our violence against the earth- a matter ignored by most pacifists, as the issue of mil... WENDELL BERRY Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world.
We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant wo... WENDELL BERRY say that your main crop is the forest. WENDELL BERRY If you start a conversation with the assumption
that you are right or that you must win,
obviously i... WENDELL BERRY My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we s... WENDELL BERRY In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind... WENDELL BERRY Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may... WENDELL BERRY The world is whole beyond human knowing. WENDELL BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. On her beauty pageant days HALLE BERRY History leaves no doubt that among of the most regrettable crimes committed by human beings have bee... WENDELL BERRY As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic,... WENDELL BERRY The most prepared are the most dedicated. RAYMOND BERRY Peaceableness toward enemies is an idea that will, of course, continue to be denounced as impractica... WENDELL BERRY It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are. WENDELL BERRY Under the rule of the free market ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis wit... WENDELL BERRY To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of surviv... WENDELL BERRY The change of mind I am talking about involves not just a change of knowledge, but also a change of ... WENDELL BERRY I think the issues of identity mostly are poppycock. We are what we have done, which includes our pr... WENDELL BERRY Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo... DAVE BERRY A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank. JOHN BERRY The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp. JOHN BERRY You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it. WENDELL BERRY Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of hum... WENDELL BERRY We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq
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CHUCK BERRY I want to see how far I can go and how good I can be, whether it's in the classroom or on the fo... ERIC BERRY What I stand for is what I stand on. WENDELL BERRY The improvement in 2005 from 2004 is attributable to extensions and discoveries from our legacy proj... BILL BERRY The improvement in 2005 from 2004 is attributable to extensions and discoveries from our legacy proj... BILL BERRY We just keep moving the cots a little closer together. BILL BERRY From our early investigation, it appears parts from the failing engine penetrated the cabin. BILL BERRY I take pride in a lot of things people take for granted, so when opportunities come my way, I just c... ERIC BERRY I always had to prove myself through my actions. Be a cheerleader. Be class president. Be the editor... HALLE BERRY Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in th... WENDELL BERRY The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosyste... WENDELL BERRY I loved my 17 years with R.E.M., but I'm ready to reflect, assess and move on to a different pha... BILL BERRY When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it... WENDELL BERRY That's the misconceptions that people have, that Chuck Berry went to jail. They're just tota... CHUCK BERRY Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup. WENDELL BERRY Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guit... CHUCK BERRY I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25. HALLE BERRY If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you... CHUCK BERRY I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step feari... WENDELL BERRY How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY He imagines a necessary joy in things that must fly to eat. WENDELL BERRY Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the lan... WENDELL BERRY No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer... DANIELLE BERRY It's an opportunity for visitors themselves to take part in the effort to reduce accidents. BRIAN BERRY The case was shoddily conceived. And he lost it. BRIAN BERRY We had two goals going into tonight's game. We wanted to win the game and get nobody hurt. We accomp... BRIAN BERRY It's like 'Twilight Zone.' You're seeing the same pattern. BRIAN BERRY At first, I think people thought I was a bum or a damn nut, so they were leery of me. People are nic... BOB BERRY I was real satisfied with how we did going against the big schools. Most of our guys are newer at tr... BOB BERRY The cruise (phase) has been very successful. BOB BERRY For a while, there was nobody cutting ships. You couldn't do it because of all the environmental reg... BOB BERRY He was mighty tickled and was a good kid. But I had to give him a lecture on keeping a phone number ... BOB BERRY The team is trained and confident. The spacecraft systems are healthy and performing as expected, an... BOB BERRY I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]. HALLE BERRY I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession. HALLE BERRY I always had to diet. I'm diabetic, so it's a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy a... HALLE BERRY Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction. CHUCK BERRY I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs ... CHUCK BERRY This has ripped the family. The parents they're devastated. CATHY BERRY This has ripped the family. The parents – they're devastated. CATHY BERRY I thought the girls played well, and we got off to a great start. We have a lot of returning players... CATHY BERRY I thought Emily played fantastic, and she really held her own. She definitely stepped it up, when sh... CATHY BERRY You're life still goes one whether you want it to or not, you still have daily bills that come in. CATHY BERRY It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest. CHUCK BERRY