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Gloria Swanson

"There was no place at all for me in my father's military world."

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"There was no place at all for me in my father's military world."

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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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"My father started me singing in church."

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"My dad is a really honest, hardworking, straight guy."

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"My father loved people, children and pets."

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"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

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"My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves."

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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps."

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"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."

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