My Dad Quotes - Page 32

• Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.

  Betty Dodson

  Brother, Dad, School

  "Betty Dodson’s Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• There was a lot of drama in school because, well, people have problems at home and they take it out on their friends in school. Trying to impress people, they became bullies. I hated it because I know what it's like to be picked on, and I never liked not fitting in, especially moving around so much as a kid because I was an Army brat. My dad was in the Army.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Dad, Drama, Moving

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Dad, Stupid, Book

  Interview with Milla Jovovich, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I grew up in a sailing family. My dad lived for sailing, and when we moved to Canada when I was a child, he really wanted us to learn.

  Daria Werbowy

  Children, Dad, Sailing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.

  M.I.A.

  Mom, Dad, Creative

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 17, 2013.

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• My mom is a Twilight fan as well and she's just as excited because she's read all the books so I think she wants to see it come alive just like anybody else. My parents supported me from the get-go, they are very supportive which a lot of people don't get. I told my dad I got the part before I told anyone else and he cried and he's so proud and he's so excited. I mean he's amazing and I'm so glad that he's going to sit beside me and go through all of that with me.

  Ashley Greene

  Mom, Dad, Book

  "Interview With Twilight Actress Ashley Greene". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. November 24, 2008.

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• I first got into acting when I was about 12. I started doing speech and drama lessons. All my friends were doing it at the time and my dad encouraged it. He encouraged any extracurricular activity.

  Bella Heathcote

  Dad, Drama, Acting

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I really became a hardcore Batman fan when I was eight years old. What was clear to me, the reason I liked him better than Superman or Spider-Man or the Hulk or whoever, was the fact that he was human, and I could identify with him, and I really believed in that character strongly. In my heart of hearts, when I was eight years old, I believed that if I studied real hard, and worked out real hard, and if my dad bought me a cool car, I could be this guy.

  Michael Uslan

  Dad, Real, Heart

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Everyone thinks that because my dad was really well known for his body that I would have that pressure too, but the truth is that I don't look at those pictures of him being really muscley and say, "yep that's really what I want to look like!"

  Coco Rocha

  Dad, Thinking, Being Real

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I am a girl, so I never looked at my dad's body and thought that's what I need to look like.

  Coco Rocha

  Girl, Dad, Needs

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• My mom is a singer and my Dad introduced me to bands such as Zeppelin and the Stones so music has always played a huge part in my life.

  Kelly Blatz

  Mom, Dad, Band

  "Crush of the Week: Kelly Blatz". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 9, 2010.

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• When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions. After all that I pretty much knew playing guitar was something I was going to do because I just had to do it. And I did.

  Billy Gibbons

  Kings, Dad, Guitar

  "BYT Interviews: Billy Gibbons". Interview with Jonny Grave, nyc.brightestyoungthings.com. January 18, 2016.

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• It feels like people talk a lot, in their relationships and in therapy. But my family wasn't like that. My dad wasn't and I wasn't. Things were said, but via the language of action.

  Leigh Newman

  Dad, People, Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My dad felt pretty strongly that I know about the basic workings of a plane and so he taught me how to read and set the instruments, as well as the basics of taking off and landing.

  Leigh Newman

  Dad, Taught, Basics

  Source: therumpus.net

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• After the age of seven, I began living between my dad in Alaska and my mother in Baltimore. Every three or four months, I would fly the 5,000 miles between the two. And having grown up in Alaska, Baltimore was astonishing.

  Leigh Newman

  Mother, Dad, Alaska

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Even as my family fell apart and things were at their most hopeless, my dad and I found a lot of happiness in the wilderness - sleeping on the cold gravel and killing as many things as we could get our hands on. Even as my mom got progressively more crazy, we found a happiness, in flashes.

  Leigh Newman

  Mom, Dad, Crazy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When I was 16, I used to drive huge loads of laundry in a three ton truck. I would turn round at night to drive back and see the band in a place north of Toronto called Dunn's Pavilion. I would drive that truck all day and they drive back and all the way until one day I wrecked the truck. I fell asleep and wrecked it. I was OK and so was my helper. I called my dad and the first words out of his mouth were, "are you OK?" I was really lucky I had a kind father.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Dad, Father, Night

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• I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.

  Wyclef Jean

  Dad, Kids, Church

  "We Played Two Truths And A Lie With Wyclef Jean And The Knocks". Interview with Ezra Marcus, livenation.vice.com. January 22, 2016.

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• My parents brought me up on all different styles of music, like my Mum would listen to Motown R&B and my Dad was quite 80's driven, so I was always surrounded by music growing up.

  Ella Henderson

  Growing Up, Dad, Parent

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• I remember reading a book that was on songwriting at some point that I found in my dad's store, and just... I did not relate at all. I've always hated structure of all kinds, it just doesn't work for me. I can never fit into the schedules of other people. It's like putting a schedule on your song, and it doesn't allow you to be moved by your own music.

  Larkin Grimm

  Song, Dad, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I got to sing with the Boss, Sting, Pink and John Legend and all of those people. It felt like the pinnacle, and then I got the call. I cried, actually and I called my dad, it was really cool.

  Nick Jonas

  Dad, People, Boss

  Source: collider.com

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• My dad [...] sent me a text saying, 'You know who you should play? Columbo. That's your Academy Award.'

  Mark Ruffalo

  Dad, Play, Awards

  "Mark Ruffalo talks Spotlight, Thor: Ragnarok and Columbo". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I just love Wisconsin. I'm a fourth-generation Wisconsinite,and my great grandparents were farmers. My grandfather delivered the mail. My mom was the first in her family to go to college. My dad started this business that becomes an international success. And I just believe very strongly in Wisconsin and who we are and the potential that this state has. And I'm really concerned about the direction that we're headed.

  Mary Burke

  Mom, Dad, Believe

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.

  Patricia Arquette

  Mom, Dad, School

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• You need to not be able to do anything else, to be in this business. If you have other options, in those unemployed moments, those other options will take precedent. From a directorial standpoint, I think it's really Freudian, the amount of trust I have in filmmakers because I have such a trusting relationship with my dad.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Dad, Thinking, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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