- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
Father Quotes
On fathers, faith, and what gets passed down.
This collection includes a personal account of learning Catholic prayer practice during a conversion, and a decision two parents made together about which faith tradition their child would follow. For devotional reading, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood was not always a happy one because we had to visit our father in jail, as my father was often imprisoned by the Pakistani rulers.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a good husband and father... that's the most important thing I'm going to do on this earth.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became more interested in the idea of being an immigrant and particularly of being in a country you're not familiar with. And so I began reading migrants' stories. The fact that my father is Chinese - he emigrated from Malaysia when he was about 20 - may have had some bearing on my attraction to the subject.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
The decision for me was whether to have 'The Father' be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group. One person who was very supportive was my father. My mother was great but my father really recognised my individuality and supported me in that.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that my father was absolutely brilliant at doing was being Bruce Lee. Nobody was able to do what he did or be like he was.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother is Lithuanian Australian, and my father was born in Singapore, but he is Pakistani / Saudi Arabian.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's my whole motivation in life - to educate people to become better a citizen, better person, better son, and better father.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
Arjun was a perfectionist. He was the perfect son, the perfect husband, the perfect father and, above else, a great warrior.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always told my father that before working with him in the same frame as an actor, which I was petrified to do, I wanted to learn from him, so I had pleaded with him for two years before he agreed to write and direct 'Mausam.' It was our dream project and a wonderful opportunity for us to work as a family.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father is sort of the jokester. My dad is still the funniest guy in our family.
- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought I'd be a father.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020