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		In my day, the only people who achieved real independence were my father, Mary Pickford and Charles Chaplin, who, with D. W. Griffith, formed United Artists. Other than that, everybody belonged to the big studios. They had no say in their own careers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was in college, I was madly in love with a girl. But unfortunately, her father didn't approve of the match. He didn't like me because I was on the verge of joining the film industry.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Varun Dhawan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I didn't have the drive; I never wanted to be in show business. I went into my father's business because of osmosis.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Burrows
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Boy George
			
			
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		I acknowledge myself a unitarian - Believing that the Father alone, is the supreme God, and that Jesus Christ derived his Being, and all his powers and honors from the Father. … There is not any reasoning which can convince me, contrary to my senses, that three is one, and one three.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Abigail Adams
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me- I was a father.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nat King Cole
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Clyde Edgerton
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Billie Joe Armstrong
			
			
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		He hardest obstacle for me has been to find a father. I am the product of three fathers, and my connection to each of them has left me wanting. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, but I've always been in competition with them in some way.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Damon Runyon
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Meghan Trainor
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dwayne Johnson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Frederick Douglass