My Dad Quotes - Page 21

• I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Lonely, Dad, Nice

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I'm not a typical Republican. I am a Republican, I wear the Republican jersey, I've been a Republican my whole life. My dad was a Republican, which is interesting because he was in a union early on. The Republican party was very strong in the area that I grew up in. So I'm a loyalist.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Strong, Dad, Party

  Source: gawker.com

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• My dad has always just had a lot of faith in me as an artist and as a person, and he doesn't really dispense with a lot of advice when it comes to the music. He's taught me a lot over the years, but when I was taking on this project he's really hands-off about that. He just appreciates what I've done and is very supportive, and of course really proud.

  Molly Ringwald

  Dad, Artist, Hands

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

  Kevin James

  Dad, Entertainment, Nintendo

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• My dad was all about music. He was a musician, leading a band when I was born. His band was active all through the 40s. He'd started it in the late 20s and 30s. According to the scrapbook, his band was doing quite well around the Boston area. During the Depression they were on radio. It was a jazz-oriented band. He was a trumpet player, and he wrote and arranged for the band. He taught me how to play the piano and read music, and taught me what he knew of standard tunes and so forth. It was a fantastic way to come up in music.

  Chick Corea

  Dad, Player, Piano

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• I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

  Alvin Lee

  Dad, Listening, Records

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• My dad was a cotton buyer and cotton buyers always considered themselves superior to the rest of the world.

  Joseph Mitchell

  Dad, World, Cotton

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• My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

  Hugh Grant

  Dad, Wine, Bottles

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• My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick.

  Mickey Spillane

  Mother, Dad, Father

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• My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.

  Jim Evans

  Summer, Dad, Night

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• One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

  Andre Dubus

  Dad, Father, Writing

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• My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

  Andre Dubus

  Mom, Dad, Reading

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• My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

  Mike Mills

  Dad, Writing, Gay

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• My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist.

  Ben Barnes

  Dad, Doctors, Professors

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• OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.

  Mike Mills

  Mom, Dad, Crazy

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• I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.

  Tony Parsons

  Stars, Dad, Found

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• You know, when my dad was a racing fan in Australia he would follow Jack Brabham and sometimes only hear if he won two days after a race - when the result finally appeared in his newspaper. These days I can tweet something and it's all over the world in seconds.

  Mark Webber

  Dad, Race, Two

  "Mark Webber: I'm ready to have another bloody good crack at it". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2011.

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• I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

  Max Walker

  Football, Dad, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It might be tough, but my dad used to say, tough times don't last — tough people do.

  James Robertson

  Dad, People, Tough Times

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• When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

  Fred Wilson

  Dad, Years, Parent

  "A Veterans Day Story" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2011.

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• I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Dad, Play, Interesting

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• When I look in the mirror, I don't see my Dad, I see my grandmother. For a while it was my mother looking back at me. If only it was my Dad.

  Colin Firth

  Mother, Dad, Mirrors

  "And When Did You Last See Your Father? - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good with actors and he knows acting well. It's great to see him do that and be really good at it and he's been doing it for a while and he certainly knows how to make movies, and little movies I guess for a television show, and he's going to come back in November to direct a second episode, which I'm really excited about.

  Emily Deschanel

  Dad, Acting, Actors

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's a funny thing. It's an odd thing to have your dad just come and work with you. But I think they all enjoyed working with him. It was a lot of fun. David loved teasing my dad, but I know respects him very much and when he gave him direction, David was always trying to do what he asked and we had a lot of fun.

  Emily Deschanel

  Dad, Fun, Thinking

  "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.

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• I think he gets a lot of respect just because he's my dad, too. Even if he hadn't had any experience. But I think he comes with a lot of experience and all of that as well, so I think people enjoyed working with him and had fun and also respected him, which was nice.

  Emily Deschanel

  Fun, Dad, Nice

  "Emily Deschanel Talks Bones: Season 2". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 26, 2007.

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