If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.
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Next it'll be 'I hear you d... PETER ACKROYD The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of goo... STEVE-O Mike has just been so good from the beginning. When I first started with Schumacher, that's who I wa... GARY SCELZI It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm... DANIEL BALDWIN Yes, Howard Hughes invented a bra for me. Or, he tried to. And one of the seamless ones like they ha... JANE RUSSELL I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kiss... NICHOLAS SPARKS I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years... IAN HISLOP One day, I went to buy something for my dad at the shops, and I heard a song by Nat King Cole called... DESMOND DEKKER I have a very strong bond with my dad, and if something was terribly wrong, I would feel it. And I f... AMBER HELMS Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and wha... NINA GARCIA At first, when he was talking to me, I was trying to act like I was weighing my options. Then he off... EDGAR SOSA The kid I played against was a complete head case. He was questioning all my calls, trying to get in... BARRETT WOLF Lew Grade told my dad, ‘I'll make your TV show. I know it's going to be... BRIAN HENSON When I get the ball with my back to goal, I like to be in touching contact. I need to feel the guy. ... EDEN HAZARD I told his dad when Chris was a freshman that he was going to break my record. BILLY WILLIAMS I have a four year old and I'm telling you we did Nickelodeon last night and he embarrassed me. ... NIA LONG I couldn't help but feel a little smug at the prospect of finding my phone this way. I was going to ... K.J. MCPIKE I like to take my hat off to Kelly Whitney. He shared he ball, passed out (of the post) all game lon... 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CAROL LEE I realized it was either get sober or keep going down the road I was on and die. ANGIE RIDINGS Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal fa... PARIS JACKSON There are some things I have to get done that would affect the way I do my job. My father's got to g... BOBBY CARPENTER When I start a movie, the first day, I feel like a duck. PENELOPE CRUZ Even then I watched him, ... I knew he was a game champion and that he wasn't going to go out like a... MIKE TYSON My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and... BILL PAXTON I was born in September. I hated the name when I was a kid, but I've grown with it. My dad wanted to... FROSTEE RUCKER Dad's Jewish and Irish, Mom's German and Scotch. I couldn't say I was anything. My last ... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. He's a hell of a back. We just tried to get him to fight through this because it always comes around... DAVE ROBERTS He was going great and he wasn't tired but when he saw the rail he tried to go over it. After I got ... MARTIN GARCIA I dated a guy and he liked me but I didn't like him. I went through his wardrobe and cleaned out... PATTI STANGER I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age. JANICE DICKINSON My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger p... B. B. KING I tried to get head-and-head with Hip Hop before that fence, but he left me a little bit and my hors... JODY PETTY When we lost Bobby, I would wake up in the morning and think, 'He's OK. He's in Heaven, ... ETHEL KENNEDY What if I accidentally hit somebody? Because my dad took one of his friends golfing, and it was, lik... JESSICA SIMPSON I never made it to the school choir because the music teacher didn't like my voice. I was pretty... SHAKIRA I get facials. 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JACK WELCH Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma... JACK KEROUAC If I have a weakness, it's probably ice cream. That's where I get lax, sloppy. I'll snea... JACK NICKLAUS It was only after the Grimms published two editions primarily for adults that they changed their att... JACK ZIPES Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal. JACK ZIPES In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration ... JACK ZIPES I have a daughter, Hanna, and I never read fairy tales to her. But I did tell her bedtime tales and ... JACK ZIPES 'Once Upon a Time', 'Mirror Mirror' - those shows and films focus on women and their... JACK ZIPES Fairy tales are with us day in and day out, not just in commercials, but references in the theater, ... JACK ZIPES The Grimm collections were never intended for children. 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JACK WHITEHALL If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes ... JACK WHITEHALL Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll ... JACK WHITE A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th... JACK WHITE I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so ... JACK WHITE I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my fri... JACK WHITE There's Catholic guilt about things, then there's the guilt of being the youngest of 10, so ... JACK WHITE If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and e... JACK WHITE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s... JACK WHITE I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But... JACK WHITE I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want th... JACK WHITE I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into thing... JACK WHITE I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. Ther... JACK WHITE Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get ... JACK WHITE I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my li... JACK WHITE I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bong... JACK WHITE With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ... JACK WHITE When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to h... JACK WHITE I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than ... JACK WHITE I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Ro... JACK WHITE There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I&... JACK WHITE I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to real... JACK WHITE One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when yo... JACK WELCH Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thous... JACK WELCH Strong managers who make tough decisions to cut jobs provide the only true job security in today'... JACK WELCH