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Father Quotes
"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me."
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"We did an episode on Good Times which came out of a newspaper article about the incidence of hypertension in black males being higher than whites, and increasing. So we did a show in which James, the father on Good Times, had hypertension."
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"Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors."
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"My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire."
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"I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney."
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"I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis."
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"My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that."
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"I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver."
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"Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful."
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"The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was."
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"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."
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"My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic."
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"The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled."
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"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said "Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is"."
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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 father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this."
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"I could never have a better teacher in those days than my father."
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"The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role."
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"He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies."
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"My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet."
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"Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father."
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"I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."
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"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."
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"My dad was an Arsenal supporter and he used to take me there, but I've always been Chelsea."
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"My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey."
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"My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends."
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