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		I grew up thinking that it's okay to be sad, angry, and express your emotions. I have also banged doors and fought, as I have seen my mom do that when she would fight with my dad. Everything that I've learnt is from them, so I've never struggled to express myself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Alia Bhatt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place. But I consider myself a southerner from Louisiana. I've lived in Texas for most of my adult life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kimberly Willis Holt
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Johnny Mathis
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chuck Pagano
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		We were always around my dad, so he wasn't absentee at all. I don't think it was normal, but it was exciting. You always had lots of creative people around, and my parents took us everywhere.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Sofia Coppola
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		My dad, coming from a very traditional family, always wanted me to be a doctor. So he would always ask me, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' And I'd have to say 'Dr. Chen.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jane Chen
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Portia Doubleday
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Dad was certainly a free spirit and had his own ways. He was very proud of my golf achievements but more proud of the person I've turned into. He brought me up to lead a very balanced life.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Luke Donald
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a child, as far as I was concerned, my dad had an amazing job, and we had all the money we needed. My life was so fun and carefree that I didn't realize at all that we weren't rich - until I met someone rich. Still, I've never met a rich kid who grew up as happy as I did.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Artie Lange
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The hero of the beloved Star Wars trilogy is Luke. The principle dynamic is the complicated relationship between Luke and his father. Not coincidentally, George Lucas' last name sounds a lot like Luke. That's the one he identified with. George Lucas had a tumultuous relationship with his own father, and people who know him say that you can't understand the backstory of the movies without knowing that his dad was occasionally difficult but also very loving. They had a big break between them. In those movies, he's very focused on sons and fathers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Cass Sunstein
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dustin Diamond
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I don't really have any childhood memories of my dad, unfortunately, .. I was 10 years old when he passed, so my memories are kind of skewed. I don't have many memories of my childhood, period.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lalah Hathaway
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Derrick Rose
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was a kid at four years old, that's when I started amateur wrestling with my dad and family. And when that's instilled in you, it never goes away.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dwayne Johnson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Pramila Jayapal