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  • Rosanne Cash on dad

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    “Because I was starting out in my 20’s. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn’t want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.” -Rosanne Cash

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  • Sam Brownback on dad

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    “My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.” -Sam Brownback

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  • Billy Sherwood on dad

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    “So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.” -Billy Sherwood

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  • Chris Robinson on dad

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    “If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would’ve said, ‘That’s not how it works.’ But nothing can be more gratifying. I’m a very hands-on dad.” -Chris Robinson

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  • Jessica Pare on dad

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    “I didn’t want to have braces when I was a kid and I’m pretty sure my dad didn’t want to pay for them.” -Jessica Pare

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  • Greg Louganis on dad

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    “Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I’d always felt there was something to live up to – expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.” -Greg Louganis

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  • Sofia Coppola on dad

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    “A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He’d be a good film professor.” -Sofia Coppola

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  • Ashlee Simpson on dad

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    “I’m an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I’ll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn’t, like, step on my toes or

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  • Sam Rockwell on dad

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    “My parents were both actors my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she’s a painter.” -Sam Rockwell

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  • Robbie Coltraine on dad

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    “My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but ‘Harry Potter’, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don’t you?” -Robbie Coltraine

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  • Iggy Pop on dad

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    “I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.” -Iggy Pop

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  • Nancy Kerrigan on dad

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    “My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.” -Nancy Kerrigan

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  • Richard Marx on dad

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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.” -Richard Marx

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  • Monica Seles on dad

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    “I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day.” -Monica Seles

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  • Josh Duhamel on dad

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    “I’ve always wanted to be a dad. I just can’t wait to have a little rug rat running around. I used to want five or six kids, but maybe I’ve become too self-absorbed over the years. I think two would be perfect.” -Josh Duhamel

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  • George Best on dad

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    “The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.” -George Best

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  • Paul Westerberg on dad

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    “Right now, it hasn’t affected my music other than the fact that I don’t have time to write any of it. That’s no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I’d have

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  • Rodney Atkins on dad

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    “I was a sickly baby, and after two sets of adoptive parents took me home, they returned me to the orphanage because of a serious respiratory infection. But as they say, the third time’s a charm, because my mom and dad adopted me and took me into their home where I was raised in a

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  • Eric McCormack on dad

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    “Growing up, my father was a financial analyst for an oil company. He was just a regular dad. And when I would say, ‘Hey, come see my play,’ he’d say, ‘Sure.’ He’d see one, ‘Oh, good play’ – you know, very typical dad reaction.” -Eric McCormack

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  • Gavin DeGraw on dad

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    “My dad didn’t want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.” -Gavin DeGraw

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  • Eva Green on dad

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    “I’m worried because of my mother, she’s going to see my performance and she’s quite hard. She’s going to see me naked. And my Dad, woah. Yeah, they’re going to see me like a woman, you know?” -Eva Green

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  • Beau Bridges on dad

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    “We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.” -Beau Bridges

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  • Chad Smith on dad

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    “I’m being a dad and a good husband.” -Chad Smith

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  • Vince Gill on dad

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    “The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.” -Vince Gill

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  • Dweezil Zappa on dad

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    “I didn’t really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, ‘Where’s the rest of it?’ It didn’t have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination

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