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"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"My father started me singing in church."
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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."
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"My father loved people, children and pets."
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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
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"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
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"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."
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"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."
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"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."
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"I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension."
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"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
World
"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."
Father
"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
People
"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."
People
"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."
Fiction
"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."
Heart
"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
Thought
"Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now."
Now
"It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print."
Belief
"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
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