Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that.
I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.
My father worked real hard. I admired him. My father taught me you needed to work with your brain and not your back. I've made that a passion.
My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was.
I had a very hard father. I had two sisters. He was soft on them and hard on me.
My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.
My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.
If I manage to get seven hours' sleep, I'm a pretty good parent.
My dad was a workaholic. I saw him work seven days a week.
On any given day, my father wasn't likely to return from work before I was asleep for the night. I saw that a man's work was important, that he must pursue it tirelessly, and that it might require certain sacrifices, like being away from the warmth and comfort of home.
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