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		I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lori Wilde
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've wanted to follow my dad into acting for as long as I can remember. 'I've had a very serious round of dramatic training, and I like action films that take their characters seriously, so I figure I'm making it the best of both worlds if I try to bring some serious acting to a shoot-'em-up picture.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brandon Lee
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I fight the same way as my dad! I've picked that up from him. We both get angry really fast and very intensely, and then get over it very quickly. You need to be good at apologising if you fight like that.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tove Lo
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		In 'The Goods,' I'm Ed Helms' dad, and I was known all those years as Kirk Cameron's father, and now I'm known as Robin Thicke's father, so I find myself playing myself a lot and, frankly, living up to expectations of what the public's image of me is.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alan Thicke
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With my own videos, I definitely have more control over what I want to put out there and what I want to say. With the TV show, I'm not the editor. There's always things that I wanted to put in there. My dad has the final say in everything on YouTube, but I can be more expressive.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jazz Jennings
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Failing and laughing at your own shortcomings are the hallmarks of a sane parent.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Gaffigan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Hello, my sister, Libby, also your daughter, is snogging a potato in my bed. What are you going to do about it?' Dad started yelling uncontrollably. I wonder if he is having the male menopause? If he starts growing breasts, I will definitely be running away with the Circus.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Louise Rennison
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Kreutzmann
			
			
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		Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paul McCartney
			
			
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		'I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God.' And I say no, it's not, Dad. 'Well, I believe that it is.' Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bill Hicks
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When you're a kid all you know is that your dad puts on his suit or overalls and vanishes from your life until nightfall. Sometimes my pops came back exhausted and scarlet-eyed, as if he'd been engaged in a low wattage war someplace.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Craig Davidson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm little. I'm pale. I'm not strong. But bad things are scared of me. I think it's because my dad was a preacher growing up, and I was raised in the Church of Christ.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ashley McBryde