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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"
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"I go off into Dublin and two days later I'm spotted walking by the Liffey with a whole bunch of new friends."
Friendship
"My dad lived till he was 78, my mum was in her 80s, and I've got two uncles who are in their 90s now."
Father
"Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back."
Months
"They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again."
Coffee
"I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band."
Home
"My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state."
Self
"Mick has expressed an interest in coming to the gallery tonight because he's seen me behaving myself lately. He is being much more supportive, which is nice."
Being
"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."
Enemy
"I'm terrible with money, absolutely awful. I'm always losing it."
Money
"In my family, they were all big boozers."
Family
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