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Father Quotes
"I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats."
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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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"It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father."
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"My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest."
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"The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled."
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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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"He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around."
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"I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me."
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"My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him."
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"My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand."
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"I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension."
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"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along."
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"My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist."
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"You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now."
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"I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!'"
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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it."
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"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."
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"Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they're fun, they do things together, they're best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they're going to respect Mom."
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"My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took."
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"But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997."
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"My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel."
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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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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband."
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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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"For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad."
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"The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music."
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"I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle."
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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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