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When I lost my dad, there was no one there to be the disciplinarian, and we kind of ran amok. JASON DAY When I met David Green at film school he always used to offer free haircuts - he was kind of an arti...
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My father was strict, but he recognised my ability and got a lot of flak from the church for support... TORI AMOS
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KYLE REILLY
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN
He was the worst kind of wrong. He was so wrong it felt right, and that made me feel complete... BECCA FITZPATRICK
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Tiny little bloke, my dad was. By the time I was six I could lift him up an' put him on top o' the d... J.K. ROWLING When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Ugan...
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ELLAR COLTRANE I went out to shoot with (my dad) and he let me know straight out what I was doing wrong and how to ...
JODI HOWELL
My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life.... APOLO OHNO
When my dad was alive, he would give them to the kids. People didn't have a lot of money, so they di... HOLLY HUNTER Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me.
CHRISTOPHER ATKINS When I came into the picture, Ben and his dad had had a lot of together time and did a lot of grown-...
BRENDA ROETHLISBERGER
I used to work on a survey crew, because my dad was an engineer, but he was also a surveyor. MICHAEL KEATON My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea.
ERIC BRISTOW
Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish ... JOHN C. REILLY He played at the highest level and he taught me the way the game was supposed to be played. The game...
RYAN NEILL Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I...
TATUM O'NEAL
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge... KURT RUSSELL
The first time I met Garry Shandling was my audition for 'The Larry Sanders Show,' with Garr... JEFFREY TAMBOR I was scouted by this talent scout back home. She found me because I used to make my dad these CDs o...
BRIANNA HILDEBRAND I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha...
CHRIS ISAAK Especially when I was young, my dad taught me a lot of Latin.
CALEB MITCHUM
My brother told me I was going to be a poet. I had a good brother. He did a lot of good brotherly wo... MARILYNNE ROBINSON
My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days ... XAVIER RUDD
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that h... NORMAN LEAR My dad and I have watched a lot of game tape together. He has helped me out a lot.
DEREK HOELLEIN
I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life. ADAM SANDLER My parents raised me with a never-give-up attitude, telling me I could be anything I wanted to be. I...
GRETCHEN CARLSON
I think my dad was happy. I phrase it like this because he seldom showed much emotion. Hugs and kiss... NICHOLAS SPARKS It's still kind of hard on me at times. I sit down and think about it a lot. They tell me don't worr...
ANTHONY WATERS I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I...
DHANI HARRISON He actually took a couple on me. I kind of get defensive when a person scores on me, so I was saying...
TRENT STRICKLAND My dad really started to love football during my sophomore season, which meant a lot to me because h...
JULIAN DALANHESE I was just four when a hired teenage field hand attempted to molest me. Miraculously, I got away, an...
CAROLYN BYERS RUCH My grandpa was the one; he started taking up golf when I was about two and introduced me to the game...
RICKIE FOWLER
My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a...
MORDECAI BROWN
He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of floggin... ANTHONY TROLLOPE
When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd real... DOLPH LUNDGREN My dad was a good man, he had standards, principles, and a code of honor.I always wanted to say the ...
GARY F EVANS... My dad was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was raised as a Cowboy fan, and I was forced to be a Cowboy fan.
DAK PRESCOTT
My dad was in the Navy, and I was raised with a strong commitment to service. DAVID ROBINSON It was after he bit me that, and was kind of, the water had calm down a little bit, that I was reall...
ELIZABETH DUNN He was fine over the weekend. He was fine when he left on Monday morning to go to the office. He wen...
JANE POWER My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
MADI DIAZ We kind of knew he did them, but I don't know he did them. He didn't tell me. I never saw him using ...
JOE BLANDINO My dad was a longshoreman in the Port of Miami. Tough job. I worked down there in the summer once. O...
NICK FERGUSON
A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, b... ROBERT DAVID HALL My mom had struggles. My dad had struggles. He raised me as a single parent. I rebelled and almost q...
ANDRE WARD I think he was a little unlucky. Not to take anything away from the winner, but he was down on the w...
DARRELL VIENNA
When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also. I just really didn't understand... NICOLE RICHIE (Marty) and I were really close. He wasn't just my uncle. He raised me ever since I was a baby. I wa...
ALLISON SHARP He pinned me down and held my hands. He forced my shorts off and pulled down my knickers and used on...
JOANITA KYAKUWA When he was a younger man, Jimmy used to go in for a few beers. He used to tease me because I never ...
JOHN TURNER I tried to give him encouragement. At times he was down because he was used to starting.
DARRENT WILLIAMS It was frustrating because I didn't do anything, ... I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and...
EDDIE GRIFFIN Unfortunately, I never saw Pele play. What I know of him is through my grandfather, my dad's dad...
NEYMAR
My brothers always like to believe that my father pampered me and I am spoilt. While it is not true,... SONAKSHI SINHA
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitima... DAN FOGELBERG I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
CESAR ROMERO My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he wa...
MIKE ROWE Everybody got spankings but he probably got more spankings. He was always more challenging, more exp...
KATHLEEN SPILLERS
My mother's husband died when I was 4, and I thought he was my dad until I was 15 and found out that... ORLANDO BLOOM I felt a bump from the left rear of my car. Ryan was up over me. He was upside down and there was a ...
ALEX BARRON
I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my d... ROBERT DAVID HALL
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because h... STEVEN SPIELBERG My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go place...
FELICIA DAY
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there. MUDDY WATERS I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, a... JOHN CUSACK I started kite boarding when I was 13. My dad was a kite boarder, and I begged him to teach me until...
MAIKA MONROE I think it's important to realize that the union did not want this individual to become chief of pol...
DAVID KALISH My dad died when he was 60. I was only 17 and I think, psychologically, that had a huge impact on me...
PAM FERRIS He was excited. He put a lot of work into me, too. I was like his little project. It was kind of lik...
JOSH BARFIELD
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a har... DOLPH LUNDGREN
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II... AL PACINO I think my dad was most proud of Dick because he never got a big head. And he didn't do a lot of sho...
DOROTHY ATKINS I think my dad was most proud of Dick because he never got a big head. And he didn't do a lot of sho...
DOROTHY BASS ATKINS I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life....
RANDY HOUSER Yes. It's all his fault. I was nice, very pure, never did anything wrong, and then he started in and...
CYNDI LAUPER I was definitely incredibly close to my dad, in a way that was all-encompassing. I am close to my mu...
NATASHA RICHARDSON
When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in part... MARIO VARGAS LLOSA He was like my big brother, ... He really took care of me -- made sure I met everybody, and played p...
BILLY ANDRADE
I don't want to live -- I want to love first, and live incidentally. 
Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because h... 
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that... 
Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. 
It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop ... 
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I d... 
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. 
Did I do all right? 
I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns. 
If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips. 