"My father told me if I succeeded, he'd walk around the world on his hands, " Oshima recounts.
"I wanted to be in fashion, but my father told me I'd never make any money at it, " says McQueen.
The father told me that a competitive agency had a sophisticated training program and my lack of one caused them to choose the other agent.
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Then, one day, my father told me to watch it again: "Right, now listen to this song and tell me what you think Alice in Wonderland means".
The day I came home from school and my father told me we would soon take a trip across the Atlantic is one of my most vivid childhood memories.
During Talk Time, before bed, my father sometimes told me stories of his own childhood adventures.
Their apprehension deepened when Kennedy famously said, "My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it til now!"
My father has always told me to get somewhere in life, but when he fell ill there was nobody else pushing me.
The father whose son told me he started working when he was a teenager, and recently found himself out of a job for the very first time in his life.
He's also concerned that boys and men "see the bumbling dad ... and think that's what's expected of them, " the stay-at-home father of two told me by phone while baking chips for his kids out of kale from his garden.
My father had once told me that some blind men could sense nearby objects, especially if they posed a danger, through a sort of acoustic radar situated on the tip of the nose, on the cheeks, and on the forehead: capable, as it were, of seeing with the whole face instead of just the eyes.
"There is definitely an art to the roll, " Freeman's father, Mike Freeman, told me.
In moments of rage, Watson told me, his father was abusive toward him.
She told me how she and Father had gone to Cairo expressly to employ a maid.
"He was a father figure for me, " the younger brother told The Times of India.
It is something my parents have always told me to do, especially my father, and that is my priority.
During the last day of the conference, he told me he was pleased that his father, the founder of the business, would be there and was receiving an award.
My father, who is a successful serial entrepreneur, always told me to have substantial conversations in person whenever possible.
He told me, for example, that his father drilled it into his head to save his money and not fool around with women.
She told me that she became a teacher because her father wanted her to have a career.
Her father was not a big believer in psychiatry, and Amy told me that she had not wanted to confront what had happened.
My mother told me that as a young bride, she wakened frequently to find my father pacing the kitchen floor.
Over dinner the other night, my friend told me about the talk she had recently with her 89-year-old father.
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Probably my mother told me this in a moment of adult boredom or whimsy, and then my father came home from work and joined in, also in a whimsical way.
General Schwarzkopf told me he learned a lot about respect and dealing calmly and appropriately with people from his father, who was a U.S. Army major and the lead investigator in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case.
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"I don't speak to my father very often but he has been telling me what he has read in the papers as well, " Barrett told BBC Radio Manchester.
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