- Looking
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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
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to say that my own father was dead, because he might as well have been. He was in Argentina and didn't play a part in my life. He and my mother divorced when I was only two.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was king of the guidebooks and our holidays were always planned, taking us from a great gallery to an ace cafe to a beautiful view. And as an actor, I loathe improvisation because there's no structure and no one knows what's going on.
- Colored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together,' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.
- Difficult Task
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father gave me formal education in raagdari. He died in Lahore in 1964 when I was 13. I was in the tenth year of school, and my father's brother took me into the qawwali ensemble and started giving me formal education in qawwali.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York.
- Family Member
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- Nov 07, 2020