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  • Shailene Woodley on dad

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    “There’s been times when I’ve had heartbreaking moments and I’m like, ‘I can’t believe you said that,’ or ‘I can’t believe you did that’. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it’ll always hurt, but I’ve never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or

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  • Denise Mina on dad

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    “In the ‘Garnethill’ trilogy, people always forget that Maureen O’Donnell’s dad was a journalist and she did art history at uni and her brother did law, but no-one ever thinks they’re middle-class – they’re just working class because they speak with accents.” -Denise Mina

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  • Jenna Bush on dad

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    “I’m sure there were times when I wish I had thought, ‘Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,’ but our parents didn’t raise us to think about them. They’re very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn’t think of any repercussions.” -Jenna

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  • Ann Richards on dad

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    “I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.” -Ann Richards

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  • Giancarlo Esposito on dad

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    “People who have not done their research on me do not know that I am European, born in Copenhagen, Denmark to an Italian father from Napoli and a mother from Alabama who was singing opera and went to Europe, met my dad, fell in love, and then moved back to Rome, where I was raised,

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  • Steve Sabol on dad

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    “My Dad hated his job. He sold overcoats, but he wanted to make movies. He had a failed career working with the Ritz Brothers – they were like the Marx Brothers, only a tier below. I always had a picture in my mind of him in a straw hat.” -Steve Sabol

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  • O. J. Simpson on dad

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    “I could not tell you the date of my mother’s death. I could not tell you the date of my dad’s death. These are not dates that I find significant.” -O. J. Simpson

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  • Olivia Thirlby on dad

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    “I love to cook. My dad’s a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.” -Olivia Thirlby

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  • Wiz Khalifa on dad

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    “My dad has been a big influence on me, because he’s always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.” -Wiz Khalifa

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  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor on dad

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    “I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids splurges. I like to think I’ve inherited both sides.” -Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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  • Tim McGraw on dad

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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

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  • Chris Isaak on dad

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    “My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they’re the best songs ever.” -Chris Isaak

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  • Marlon Wayans on dad

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    “I’m the most inappropriate dad. I curse in front of my kids and their friends. I let my kids watch R-rated movies. I’ll walk by the movie theater and say, ‘Let’s go see that,’ and my kids will say, ‘No, it’s rated R. It’s not appropriate for kids.’ I’m like Uncle Dad. We have fun.

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  • Matthew Morrison on dad

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    “My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.” -Matthew Morrison

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  • Hilary Duff on dad

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    “I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.” -Hilary Duff

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  • Benicio Del Toro on dad

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    “My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who’s a lawyer, I got cousins that are lawyers.” -Benicio Del Toro

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  • Mark Hoppus on dad

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    “Parents don’t understand kids and kids don’t understand parents. My parents were divorced when I was really young and I went to live with my dad.” -Mark Hoppus

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  • Eric Stoltz on dad

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    “My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.” -Eric Stoltz

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  • Robbie Coltrane on dad

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    “My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there’s an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you’ve been a difficult teenager.” -Robbie Coltrane

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  • Larry Elder on dad

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    “If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it’s my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.” -Larry Elder

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  • Ben Barnes on dad

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    “I often talk with other actors about that time when you’ve just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it’s a bit haunting because you’re not quite sure how to leave it on set.

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  • Nicholas Hoult on dad

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    “I’ve got a really great family round me, two sisters and an older brother and my mum and dad. Everybody’s equal.” -Nicholas Hoult

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  • Joe Frazier on dad

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    “When I was a boy, I used to pull a big cross saw with my dad. He’d use his right hand, so I’d have to use my left.” -Joe Frazier

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  • Criss Angel on dad

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    “I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning and going off at 5, 6 o’clock, yet he always had time to spend with his kids and his wife.” -Criss Angel

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  • James Levine on dad

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    “More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion, but I’m still amazed at the number who aren’t and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom’s got to be the one who stays home, not dad.” -James Levine

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