My Dad Quotes - Page 37

• My dad read The Hobbit to me originally when I was young. So, it was the first imaginary landscape I ever had in my head from the written word. It gave me a passion for reading, thanks to my dad's performance of the book.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Dad, Book, Reading

  'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Interview with Kam Williams, pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• My dad will get a kick out of [Scary Movie 4]. I don't know if he'll love it but by now my family know what to expect from me. So it's no surprise.

  Carmen Electra

  Dad, Scary, Surprise

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My grandmother was German. She didn't teach any of her children German. She really wanted them to be American. And now, she's since passed away, I get so frustrated sometimes. I'm like, "Oh, Oma, why didn't you teach your kids German?" My dad would have spoken German to me from birth, and I would have spoken German.

  Dakota Fanning

  Children, Dad, Kids

  "Dakota Fanning on Why It's Good to Be a "Weird Person"". Interview with Alexandra Schwartz, www.glamour.com. August 9, 2016.

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• My dad's from there, and I have relatives there, but I don't think I've been to Chicago since I was like 9.

  Bill Hader

  Dad, Thinking, Chicago

  Source: avclub.com

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• My dad was a good competitor. I know he'd think I was a little off the charts.

  Pete Carroll

  Dad, Thinking, Littles

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

  Pete Carroll

  Dad, Winning, Tails

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• There was a lot of tension between my dad and his mother and brothers. Sometimes when I was over there, I remember thinking, "I don't want to get shot."

  Scott McClanahan

  Mother, Brother, Dad

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

  Martina McBride

  Growing Up, Dad, School

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Even the mood of a lot of people, my dad gets on me a lot because he's like people love answers but I'm more for questions, ask the right questions.

  Asher Roth

  Dad, People, Answers

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• When I was young I wanted to make films and then I got into folk music when I was about 12, and started going to this folk club in Auckland. My dad [Barry Andrews] was in punk and post-punk bands, so I guess it was a side of music I hadn't really listened to before - the really narrative form of songwriting.

  Finn Andrews

  Dad, Band, Clubs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.

  Adam Richman

  Mom, Dad, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love martial-arts movies. I grew up with my dad watching kung-fu theater every Sunday. So it was kind of my thing.

  Milla Jovovich

  Art, Dad, Sunday

  Interview with AVC, www.avclub.com. October 8, 2010.

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• I really didn't know what I wanted to do. I went to art school and tried a bunch of different things, but I knew I wanted to do something in the visual arts. And I'd always been around my dad's film sets, so the interest was there. But I didn't have the guts to say, "I want to be a director," especially coming from that family.

  Sofia Coppola

  Art, Dad, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It came time to go to college. My dad said, go wherever you want. Take whatever you want. He just really believed in getting out and being exposed to different things.

  Ray Liotta

  Dad, College, Different

  "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

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• Humans have real superpowers and when I see my dad, and saw my dad, work with communities and help people change viewpoints, and lead people in healing and guide them through troubled waters in their lives, that represents to me a real world wizard - if you want to look at it with prismatic eyes. That's what they're talking about you read about a magician.

  Guillermo E. Brown

  Dad, Real, Healing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ironically, I come from a family of lawyers - my dad, my grandfather, and now my oldest son. And some of my very best friends are lawyers, though they don't resemble the ones that appear in my novels.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Dad, Son, Grandfather

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• I grew up going to church. My dad was a pastor. I knew that God had a plan for my life. I knew that Jesus was the only way to Heaven. But I loved sin. The Bible says that sin is pleasurable for a season and I loved it.

  Dominic Balli

  Jesus, Dad, Heaven

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I got into music because my Dad used to tell everyone I had the voice of an angel when I was two-years-old.

  Janine and The Mixtape

  Dad, Angel, Years

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• My Dad played the trombone and I think my Mom played the piano for about two years. It is very self-driven. They pushed me to do piano lessons, but they were never forceful about anything. They never pushed me to sing or anything, it was something that I did myself.

  Thomston

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

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• My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.

  Meera Menon

  Country, Growing Up, Dad

  "Meera Menon and the Women of Wall Street". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• We called my dad MacGyver when I was a kid, and I learned a lot from him. He just enjoys problem solving in that way. I do, too, which is something I inherited.

  Lucas Till

  Dad, Kids, Way

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I feel like my dad was the more artistic one, creating his own thing, loving to be around people, and all this stuff, doing exciting things, and my mom was more of the performer.

  Jillian Hervey

  Mom, Dad, Creating

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• As we're growing and stuff, it's been amazing to feel so embraced and have them be so excited. I definitely leaned into my dad a little more starting out because once we actually started to get those people knocking on our doors and emailing.

  Jillian Hervey

  Dad, Doors, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Children, Dad, Games

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• I think people couldn't really put me in [one race]. I wasn't Mexican, I wasn't white, I wasn't black, I wasn't Asian... I wasn't anything, and I didn't really fit into anybody's group. My dad is Mexican, and my mom is French and Danish.

  Jessica Alba

  Mom, Dad, Thinking

  "Hollywood Honey". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 26, 2005.

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