Dad Quotes
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My dad's life story was a string of kindness. He treated everyone as an equal, whether it was the bank teller or the bank president. He even attributed his survival to the courage of kindness.
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I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx.
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I think 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' have definitely staked out their own style and territory, and now the accusations are coming that 'The Simpsons' is taking jokes from 'Family Guy.' And I can tell you, that ain't the case.
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My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.
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I have a lot of great racing memories growing up in Europe as a young boy - playing with car parts on my dad's desk, watching the races on Sunday afternoons to try and spot him on TV, even having the chance to go to Formula 1 races where he was working.
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My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar.
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I was lucky to have a great dad.
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One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.
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I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad.
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I was born Gaynor Hopkins, one of seven children. My mum, Elsie, and dad, Glyndwr, always said they had seven children, although my sister Paulene was stillborn.
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Industrialization created the 'Father’s Catch-22': a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children.
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There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.
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Some characters think more like me than others; some think more like my dad or someone else. It certainly is made up of my experiences, things I've heard, things I think are funny, things I think are sad. There's sort of a strange, blurry version of yourself in there.
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My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.
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Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
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I always wanted to be a writer, from being a little kid onwards. My dad and my mum both had phases when that was what they did.
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My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
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My dad had a company, and there were various films that hadn't gone into production that I'm trying to nurture.
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I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.
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My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
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My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?
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My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.
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When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.
