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"I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer."
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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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"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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"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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"My father was often angry when I was most like him."
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"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
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"I also like Western classical music and jazz."
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"I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer."
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"In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat."
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"On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time."
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"I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good."
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"He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard."
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"Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart."
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"When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it."
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"I have a daughter, she's twenty years old."
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"I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand."
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