My Dad Quotes - Page 35

• And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also, he said, "No, it would be impossible for me to imagine the way it will come out." He said, "Yes, I story-boarded it, I had a plan, but then I work with an army of great artists and I want all of them to create inside that creation."

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Army, Artist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.

  Andy Samberg

  Dad, Remember, Scene

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dad, Thinking, Naked

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

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• I think the main thing that affected my comedy was that my dad slept in a nightgown for most of my childhood. And it was just very funny every single night and made me realize that laughter is fun and nightgowns are cool.

  Jenny Slate

  Laughter, Fun, Dad

  "Not My Job: Comedian Jenny Slate Gets Quizzed On Jennifer Lopez". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 20, 2014.

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• I've seen a lot in my life. My dad was pretty gnarly but I loved him and I wouldn't change it for the world. My mom's a survivor.

  Taryn Manning

  Mom, Dad, Gnarly

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.

  Taryn Manning

  Mom, Dad, Grandma

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the pool baking; he was practically George Hamilton.

  C. J. Wilson

  Beach, Dad, California

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.

  Scott Raab

  Tattoo, Dad, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Mom, Strong, Dad

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dad, Pain, Singing

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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• My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.

  Rosanne Cash

  Art, Dad, Children

  Interview with Antonino D’Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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• My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dad, Compassion, Judging

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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• My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, War

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• My dad noticed some kind of talent on piano when he asked me to play a couple random songs on piano when I was 6 and I just did it. I attempted lessons but I was just so bad at reading notes. I would read "Three Blind Mice" by ear, so learning notes was almost impossible.

  Christina Grimmie

  Song, Couple, Dad

  Source: joonbug.com

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• American pop group N'SYNC's. I listened to it endlessly in my dad's car. This also made me wanna be a singer.

  Seungri

  Dad, Car, Groups

  Source: fyeahseungri.com

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• The old footage of my dad, I always knew we were cut from the same cloth, because my dad was such a renegade and always marched to the beat of his own drum. To see where we were both dancing and being silly together, it's too beautiful for words. I was really happy to have that.

  Juliette Lewis

  Beautiful, Dad, Silly

  "The Hard Lovin' Ways of Juliette Lewis". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• As a kid growing up, the most simple things would make me so, so excited. I remember the first time my dad got a let-out couch; you could sleep in it like a bed and my sister and I just thought that was so magical.

  Keke Palmer

  Dad, Growing Up, Sleep

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [I did impressions] of relatives because I heard so many different sounds. My dad was in the music business and of course my uncle was a giant [music producer], but my dad in particular had the house filled with these Dixieland jazz stars.

  Billy Crystal

  Stars, Uncles, Dad

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. October 17, 2013.

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• Undoubtedly, the biggest influence on my life is my mom, followed pretty closely by my dad.

  Melissa Harris-Perry

  Mom, Dad, Life Is

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.

  Anthony Evans

  Dad, Careers, Building

  "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.

  Michael Gove

  Dad, Fishing, Scotland

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• My dad and some teachers were constantly pushing me to do better than I was doing because they all knew that I could. I was not interested in what they wanted me to do well in at the time, but still, the concept that there's a great land of opportunity out there, and all you have to do is go attack it, was not something foreign to me. It's why I'm one of the few members of my family that left home.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Teacher, Dad, Home

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I was doing 100 pushups by 8 years old. My dad was the type like he'd have friends over and be like, "My son can do that, Ryan drop and give me 100 pushups!" and would have me do it for his friends. It was that type of household.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Son, Years

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• My dad struggled with cocaine addiction, and we actually went to rehab with him too. I remember having extensive talks with him about how I was wired a certain way, how I wouldn't be able to drink and do drugs the same way my friends got to.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Dad, Addiction, Drug

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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