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  • Allison Williams on dad

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    “My dad keeps joking about sneaking into my grandparents’ house and switching out their HBO for PBS so they think I’m on ‘Downton Abbey.’” -Allison Williams

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  • Marcy Kaptur on dad

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    “We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.” -Marcy Kaptur

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  • Connie Britton on dad

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    “For my birthday this year, my girlfriends – who knew I’d just inherited my dad’s turntable – gave me a carton of albums like ‘Blue Kentucky Girl,’ by Emmylou Harris, and ‘Off the Wall,’ by Michael Jackson. It’s all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can’t have a music collection without Prince’s ‘Purple

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  • Robert Moog on dad

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    “To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off.” -Robert Moog

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  • Peter Agre on dad

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    “Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.” -Peter Agre

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  • Mary Cheney on dad

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    “I’m probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.” -Mary Cheney

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  • Jeff Koons on dad

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    “I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times… that he can look and see my dad’s thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.” -Jeff

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  • Steve Zahn on dad

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    “I’m a good dad I spend a lot of time with my kids.” -Steve Zahn

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  • Jonathan Krohn on dad

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    “My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.” -Jonathan Krohn

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  • Mel Torme on dad

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    “Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.” -Mel Torme

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  • Chely Wright on dad

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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.” -Chely Wright

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  • Evangeline Lilly on dad

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    “The people on my mum’s side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad’s side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.” -Evangeline Lilly

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  • Thomas Jane on dad

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    “My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.” -Thomas Jane

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  • Max Irons on dad

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    “I’ve got my dad’s height and smoking habit. But I think I’ve got my mum’s looks and sensibilities.” -Max Irons

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  • Richie Sambora on dad

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    “I love being a dad. I’d have more kids if I could. I’d take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.” -Richie Sambora

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  • Scott Stapp on dad

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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.” -Scott Stapp

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  • Jamie Moyer on dad

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    “Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she’s in her mid- to late 70s.” -Jamie Moyer

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  • Daniel Baldwin on dad

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    “My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven’t been there for him… and that’s sad.” -Daniel Baldwin

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  • Christina Hendricks on dad

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    “I’m an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he’s going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we’re going to have a really fun night and it’s going to be really exciting. I’m really

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  • Fantasia Barrino on dad

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    “When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn’t focused on school – I was into the music and trying to please my dad.” -Fantasia Barrino

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  • Eric San on dad

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    “If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they’re based in the U.K. I’m a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.” -Eric San

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  • Patrick Rothfuss on dad

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    “I’ve got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don’t have the time to work on it right now. I’m way too busy with the ‘Kingkiller Chronicles’ and being a new dad.” -Patrick Rothfuss

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  • Samuel West on dad

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    “I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.” -Samuel West

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  • Alvin Lee on dad

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    “I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad’s Benny Goodman records.” -Alvin Lee

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  • Brendan Coyle on dad

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    “My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I didn’t enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.” -Brendan Coyle

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