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Desi Arnaz

"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

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"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

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"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."

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"Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children."

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"In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father's voice. But isn't that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy's shoes on? Hey, my kids do it."

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"I am sorry I could not see my father."

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"I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records."

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"My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician."

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"My husband is from Hawaii and his father who was also born in Hawaii was a teenager when Pearl Harbor happened, right before church and he ran up and got on the roof of his grandfather's house and watched the planes go over."

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"Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie."

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"My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give."

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Amber Hurdle

"The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music."

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"Lucy and I would love furiously and fight furiously."
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