Dad Quotes
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I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I've said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you're spending money.
Geoff Dyer
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I do half the cooking, and by 'half' I mean three quarters," Dad pointed out. "And if you're going to turn up your nose at all my carnivorous delights, ingrate child, you can sit under the table and gnaw sadly on a raw Brussels sprout at mealtimes.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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Sometimes being a dad is like watching a ping-pong match.
Steve Schirripa
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When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.
Jenna Ushkowitz
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I thought I could never be the actor Dad was, so I avoided it for a while.
Michael Douglas
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I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
David Mitchell
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I love what I'm doing here but I hate being away from home. I hate it. I look forward to one day raising a family myself, and I really look forward to children but when that day comes, I don't want to be an absent dad. I'm already an absent husband.
Chuck Ragan
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This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or more capable, and he stands there beside him with a sense of pride - he's my dad - and he also, of course, stands beside him because he has nowhere else to go.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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I'm a homebody. If I'm not working I'm with my family being a dad.
John C. McGinley
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My dad's a filmmaker, and my mom's an actress. She was the original understudy, actually, for Harper in 'Angels in America' and did the show for about several months while she was pregnant with my older brother. And so I grew up obsessed with film and filmmaking.
Lucas Hedges
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From the start. As early as - I felt I was in the wrong sex; I really did. I would go into my dad's room and put on his clothes.
Jane Lynch
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Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.
Eliza Doolittle
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When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that's hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year.
Peter Uihlein
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People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.
Bob Newhart
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My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.
Johnny Mathis
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Dad was a very, very principled man, and he hated any kind of story where the baddies get away with it.
John Lanchester
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I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.
Glen Campbell
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I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.
Joel Osteen
