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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
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"The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins."
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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"
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"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day."
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"My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons."
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
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"I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me."
Family
"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."
Father
"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
Mother
"I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't."
Age
"I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life."
Life
"I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne."
Life
"I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden."
Gardening
"I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad."
Funny
"My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated."
Mother
"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."
Accident
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