Dad Quotes - Page 21

• I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

  Dhani Harrison

  Rebel, My Family, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

  Dhani Harrison

  Play, Age, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

  Dhani Harrison

  Stars, Want, Able

  "A family affair" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2003.

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• I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

  Dhani Harrison

  Couple, Japan, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.

  Dhani Harrison

  Trying, Playing Music, Lessons

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I feel like if I'm going to give you a book about my dad, then I really want to give you my dad, because he is interesting and he is funny and if you're buying a book about him, I don't want you to have to sit through stuff that's not him.

  Justin Halpern

  Book, Giving, Interesting

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• My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

  Lianne La Havas

  Grandparent, Childhood, Greek

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• Whenever I'm in theatre situations I will go out of my way not to talk about my father, but in the film world I can be really proud of my family and say, 'You know what: my dad's a really, really famous theatre director,' because nobody has any idea.

  Rebecca Hall

  Father, Ideas, Theatre

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My family was very supportive of whatever I wanted because my grandfather was an opera singer. My dad's dad. So my dad has an appreciation for the arts, and he let me choose my own path.

  Tony Hale

  Appreciation, Art, Grandfather

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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.

  Amy Irving

  Children, Home, Differences

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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

  Mom, Song, Growing Up

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• In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

  Gillian Anderson

  Jobs, Children, School

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• Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

  Shooter Jennings

  Kids, Important, Good Dad

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• My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

  Thomas Jane

  Entrepreneurial, Ability, Businessman

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• I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

  Nicole Krauss

  Notebook, Writing, Green

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• Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.

  Patsy Kensit

  Mother, Men, East

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Dad's going steady with a pig in the barn.

  Mojo Nixon

  Pigs, Social Taboos, Barns

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• My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

  Rob James-Collier

  Mom, Brother, Giving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.

  Gary Kemp

  Thinking, Important, Dying

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• From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

  Hoda Kotb

  Cancer, Divorce, Looks

  Hoda Kotb, Jane Lorenzini (2014). “Ten Years Later: Six People Who Faced Adversity and Transformed Their Lives”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.

  Miranda Kerr

  Past, Koalas, Tree

  "'I believe in celebrating the female figure' says a very hot, very naked Miranda Kerr" by Caroline Corcoran, www.mirror.co.uk. October 30, 2012.

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• When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Art, Teenager, Successful

  "MH Grill: Dolph Lundgren". Interview with Brittany Kennedy, www.menshealth.co.uk. February 19, 2013.

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• My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

  Isabel Lucas

  Thinking, Pilots, Bugs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

  Dean Norris

  College, Parent, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad's era believed that there was something noble in being a good guy - the kind of guy that lived straight and narrow, told the truth, and stood up for what he believed was right.

  Dean Norris

  Guy, Eras, Noble

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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