Father Quotes - Page 25

• I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

  Amber Heard

  Daughter, Growing Up, Hunting

  "20Q: Amber Heard". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.playboy.com. August 10, 2011.

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• My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff. He was really a hugely encouraging force to me when I was little.

  Kate Bush

  Piano, Littles, Stuff

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 23, 2011.

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• It's like with Smallville, I'm sure those creators didn't know I had done a ton of Star Trek work. I was just the right guy for the job. Do I gravitate towards it? You do what you are best suited to do, so in me being a comic book fan and a fan of genre from my father being in Mission: Impossible and the spy genre and all that, when I go to audition, perhaps I have a leg up because I understand the universe better.

  Phil Morris

  Stars, Jobs, Book

  Source: 411mania.com

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• In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.

  Hugh Panaro

  Growing Up, Dad, Taken

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• Well, being a working mommy is something I've always wanted to be. My mother is my biggest role model and she showed me how to do it right. She was very present in our lives and has a great career of her own. Same with my father. So I knew it was possible going in to stay closely connected to my children while also chasing big dreams.

  Kerri Walsh

  Mother, Dream, Children

  "37-year-old Olympian explains how she stays so dominant at an age when most athletes retire". Interview with Emmett Knowlton, www.businessinsider.com. March 1, 2016.

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• My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.

  Jason Graae

  Mom, Mother, Brother

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I feel like that's a way people can change the way music is - to be guided by someone they believe in and trust. Larson and I really believed in each other. It was like brother/sister, father/daughter, we were laughing and yelling, that's how it is when you make an album! Essentially the trust was there and I got something great.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Daughter, Brother, Believe

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.

  Salman Rushdie

  Religious, Growth, Islam

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• As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, College, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it ended up - the experience and, I believe, the film - better than I could ever have hoped for.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Grateful, Believe, Opportunity

  "Kiefer Sutherland on finally playing Donald's son and destroying the first '24' action figure". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. March 7, 2016.

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• I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that.

  Yoshi Wada

  Mom, School, Self

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• My mother and my father taught me to look at the actual problem, not the face of it, not the veneer of it. So for me, I was never - I was impressed that it - racially, I was impressed, right, but now in America it's about economics, and it's been about economics, and honestly, everything's been about economics since I don't want to say the beginning of time, but it's been about economics for a long while.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Mother, America, Long

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. March 9, 2011.

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• You get to a certain age and it really occurs to you: "My mother and my father will not always be here. My spouse or my girlfriend or boyfriend are here right now, but someday they won't be." You realize that you need to like yourself.

  Angel Olsen

  Mother, Girlfriend, Age

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The family that raised me are awesome people and they are my mother and my father and my brother and my sister. I've never viewed them as these "strangers" that took over. It's never been this crazy, dramatic, Lifetime-movie situation. It's been chill.

  Angel Olsen

  Mother, Brother, Crazy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I love Aretha [Franklin] and I've loved her all my life. I think she's an incredible songstress, obviously. She consistently has had this incredible voice. I remember when she was singing gospel in her father's church.

  Stevie Wonder

  Thinking, Voice, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing. Most of all however, I think it was the love that was given to me unconditionally and I felt that my whole life. It certainly wasn't that my parents always liked what I was doing, even my becoming a doctor, my father preferred I went into business so he could help me, but I wanted to be a doctor.

  Bernie Siegel

  Kids, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I grew up with sentiments such as, "Do what will make you happy, troubles are God's redirections that something good will come from, and that material things are to make the world a better place" and the latter came from my father because his father died of tuberculosis when he was twelve. They had no insurance, six kids and a hell of a time surviving.

  Bernie Siegel

  Kids, World, Six

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Money, financial matters were to help people, to help them survive, not to have a bigger house or a bigger car and that sort of thing, because I hear that from so many kids, they often don't know why their father won't spend more time with them.

  Bernie Siegel

  Kids, Car, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Coming from a working-class background, where my father did manual labor, was a good grounding; I was obsessed with getting a job or getting out of the house at 15.

  Johnny Marr

  Jobs, Class, House

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Todd's mother had several children by different fathers, and Todd [Willingham] had been abandoned in California. ... He's a good-looking man. He was a witty man, you know? Funny, caring. He wasn't arrogant, but he was kind of set in his ways. If he thought something, it was one way. You could show him an alternative, but he was still going to stick by his particular view. But I could see how to women he could be a very charming, good-looking guy, especially when he was younger.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, Witty, Children

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• Mainstream rabbis essentially closed the book on dreams by the sixth century, and Church fathers established that only certain saints have the discernment to determine which dreams are from God. The dream is exiled.

  Rodger Kamenetz

  Dream, Book, Church

  Source: content.time.com

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• I love being alone. I learned that from my father, I think, who loved his own company.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Love Is, Thinking, Company

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I felt that people would criticize everything. I was so scared about playing Paris. I was very much aware that the greatest concerts my father and mother had done were there. I was sure people would be very tough.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Mother, Paris, People

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• My father loved me and he wanted to work with me and he didn't care what people would say.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  People, Care, Wanted

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• It's difficult for me to write in English as it's not my first language, but French is even worse because of my father's influence and because the comparisons that I - not even other people - would make.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Writing, People, Firsts

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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