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My mother was a housewife. Both from - well, my father was from a farming family, agricultural family in the north of England. And my mother came from a very working class  (My Father Quotes) I found my father’s Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that’s really where my filmmaking began  (My Father Quotes) My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father’s side  (My Father Quotes) My parents were extremely reluctant. When my father was clearly dying, my mother refused to acknowledge it  (My Father Quotes) I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life  (My Father Quotes) The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs  (My Father Quotes) It was my father who could do no wrong. So I didn’t think of it as, oh, look, my father’s a violent man  (My Father Quotes) I don’t think I knew any of my father’s friends - male friends - by their real names. I remember them only by their nicknames  (My Father Quotes) There are a lot of things my mother taught me and helped me and disciplined me and made sure I stayed on the right track. And there are a ton of things that only my father could have taught me  (My Father Quotes) I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going  (My Father Quotes) At one point I took a copy of Berkeley’s Principles from my father’s library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy  (My Father Quotes) I am my father’s daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I’ve been shooting my whole life  (My Father Quotes) When my father died, it sounds kind of simple but I just had the desire to step up and pastor the church. It was what I was supposed to do. I just took that step of faith  (My Father Quotes) I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there’s no let up  (My Father Quotes) I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don’t know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it  (My Father Quotes) I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English  (My Father Quotes) The dotted line my father’s ashplant made On Sandymount Strand Is something else the tide won’t wash away  (My Father Quotes) My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that’s when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt  (My Father Quotes) When my father was arrested, we didn’t know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste  (My Father Quotes) I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities  (My Father Quotes) I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker’s family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizens  (My Father Quotes)
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