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"I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery."
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"My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down."
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"My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning."
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"I had just lost my dad and I remembered all the songs we used to go and hear at concerts, and the records around the house and sometimes we'd play together."
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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"Peter Boyle on Everybody Loves Raymond is more of an insane Dad."
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"I just found out last week - my sister told me - that my father had some Beatles records. So I must have heard them quite a bit, but it never registered, really. Now I listen to them with new ears."
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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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"My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine."
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"My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that."
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"Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad."
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"I used to believe there were people on Mars, and of course now we know there aren't. Mars held particular interest. I was curious what kind of beings they would look like."
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"A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things."
Life
"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
Geography
"By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory."
Time
"How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature."
Nature
"I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education."
Education
"Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science."
Science
"That's the way I got along in life. I don't ever remember being particularly jealous of anybody, because I figured if I can't do it myself, I don't deserve to get it."
Life
"You wonder about it and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem."
Will
"We were suddenly faced with the necessity of training a lot of young men in the art of navigation."
Art
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