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Father Quotes
"I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17."
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"I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle."
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"I was just studying with my father, a very difficult task for me since he was a great, great Qawwali singer."
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"But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met."
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"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
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"My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone."
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"My Mom and Dad did it pretty good, so I know it can work. The foremost thing I would say about working with Robin and Sean is that they were devoted to this project and devoted to their characters. You can't ask for any more from talented actors like that."
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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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"When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part."
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"I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled."
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"I have a lot of memories, but I don't go into capitalizing on that. Something's got to be my own. I'm not doing the record to sit here and broadcast my memories of my father."
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"David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends."
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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 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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"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
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"That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller."
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"Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father."
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"What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener."
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"He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing."
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