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		My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bella Thorne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I used to be really nervous when I sang. Like, when I was a kid starting young, 18 and 19, and my dad really had to sort of push me to start singing in front of people. Ever since I got out there and really started doing it, the only thing I've ever tried to do is just sort of is be myself, you know, never put on a voice. Sing naturally.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dan Auerbach
			
			
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		My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gary Locke
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dakota Fanning
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Sitting around our kitchen table from a very early age on, we talked politics, and we talked policy. Never once can I ever remember my dad saying, 'Go away, this is an adult conversation.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cheri Bustos
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kevin Hart
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My dad was my hero. And I got my personality from my mother.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Magic Johnson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Omar Dorsey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad did every single accent under the sun, and he would read bedtime stories.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lily James
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up in an environment where it was permittable to use violence to solve a problem. But it was not permittable ever to call the police under any circumstances. That was the kind of doctrine of my household. My dad was a career-long criminal, and you weren't calling the police for any reason.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charlie Hunnam
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was young, my dad, a veteran who attended college on the GI Bill, lost his job at age 55 when the company he worked for was sold. My entire family pitched in - my mom took in sewing, and I got a minimum wage job after school.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tammy Duckworth
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up with an extremely funny dad, and my mom is super funny.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paula Pell
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Gary Sheffield
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I don't let a lot of people know about my dad dying on 9/11. It's not a way to introduce yourself. So I never told anybody, and then I would do jokes about it... and I think people thought I was lying about it. Which would be crazy!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pete Davidson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad was a big runner. Growing up, I watched him do half marathons, and he was always running six or seven miles.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Natalie Morales
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yancy Butler
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know how to do this; you don't have to come with me anymore.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nathan Outteridge
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Karan Johar
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I started when I was really young. I was playing with my dad when I was 8 or 9, and I started playing shows then. I had a short stint in a DIY all-girl punk cover band.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Verite
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I never ran with my dad. He was old-school. He had a whole different idea of training. He ran in steel-toed boots! But, of course, he's proud of me and proud of the boxer that I became.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laila Ali
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Mamet
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel Tucker