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		I know people who have literally quit their jobs to spend more time with their children, and I go, 'Wow,' my dad used to go to work at 7 o'clock in the morning and he'd come back at 7:30 and we'd kind of see him walk in and then he'd go upstairs and suddenly he'd be in a T-shirt and grumpy. There wasn't much in the way of conversation that went on.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jimmy Kimmel
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jacob Latimore
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Liam Neeson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My parents are from the South - they were both born in Birmingham - so my dad saw R.E.M. really early on when they were playing college stuff in Athens. He had a bunch of their cassettes from the '80s, and when I was 8, 9, or 10, those were the sort of things that were around the cassette player in the living room.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Haley Joel Osment
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aaron Levie
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Dad would come home from doing odd jobs, and sometimes he'd come home late at night with lumber, and he'd rumble around with all this wood in our small place. We'd finish putting it away, and then we'd play that piano. I'll be eternally grateful to him.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Johnny Mathis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dolly Wells
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad told remarkable stories about how kindness helped him through, and he lived his life afterward always trying to make people's lives better.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Daniel Lubetzky
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Paxton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I play golf with my dad all the time.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kathryn Newton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was 7, my dad asked his friend to teach me. I played my first tournament competition when I was 8. I remember I shot around 125.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yani Tseng
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Craig Thompson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sam Brownback
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' - that's the last little piece of Dad I've got.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kendall Jenner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad has this beautiful spirit of being able to create no matter where he is. He's always been so selfless with our family. It's hard to put words to it. He's an incredible man.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Matt Lauria
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I used to work at my dad's peanut mill, and worked 15 hours a day, 6 days a week. So, now, riding around on a nice tour bus and doing shows, you'd have to get picky to have a downside.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Luke Bryan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Eddie Redmayne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Cassidy