My Dad Quotes - Page 37

• My dad is obsessed with music, so I was raised around this guitar player that really wanted me to be a guitar player.

  Zach Condon

  Dad, Player, Guitar

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• My mother's Cubana/Irish and my dad's Catalan. And that blows my mind.

  Prefuse 73

  Mother, Dad, Blow

  Interview with Jamin Warren, pitchfork.com. February 20, 2005.

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• Yes, a lot of European cinema and a lot of independent films and art-house stuff. She is a photographer. She is a visual artist and photographer and my dad is, too. My mum, I must credit for showing me good films. With my career, my parents were great and though they were a little wary, maybe, of the acting ambitions they have always been supportive.

  Mia Wasikowska

  Art, Dad, Independent

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My dad brought me Michael Jackson and Madonna and said, "This is ALL you need to know!"

  Neon Hitch

  Dad, Needs, Said

  Source: www.elle.com

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• So yeah, when I was a kid, when I was 16, 17, I'd come home from high school, and my dad collected all of Barbra Streisand's records. And she was very young then. I think she probably had three records out, and she was 21, and we had them all. And I knew every single song, every breath, every elision, every swell. And I sang along to it.

  Meryl Streep

  Song, Dad, Home

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.

  Brian Henson

  Mom, Dad, Night

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It was actually what my dad did and with the Muppets, the years with the Muppets, it was really all targeted to adults. It was in a time when everything had to be safe for the whole family. But he was targeting adults.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Years, Adults

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Really, initially what I very quickly realized that I was loving about the show was, because it reminded me of when I was a kid and I would visit the sets where my dad was shooting with the other puppeteers.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Kids, Shooting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And it was a whole lot of fun, and in many ways, what we've done with the show is just taken that part of my early memories of visiting my dad, shooting with the Muppets, and taking that and making a show that's really an expansion of that and presenting a show that's all that.

  Brian Henson

  Fun, Memories, Dad

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And that was always my father's favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Father, Shooting

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In the show, we have recreated two sketches that my dad had, or pieces that my dad had developed. One that he had developed with my mother, one that Frank Oz had developed with my dad. And these are old pieces from the '50's and '60's, and we're going to develop more, too.

  Brian Henson

  Mother, Dad, Two

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I always very much enjoyed arts and it was so central in my family, my mother was also an art teacher, as well as founding the Henson Company with my dad, there was a lot of art going on in our household.

  Brian Henson

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  Source: bigthink.com

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• At that point, I thought probably special effects, something like that, and indeed, the early days when I was working with my dad, after I left school, I only went to less than one year of college, and then I was transferring, and then I delayed my transfer, and I did a movie, and then another movie, and then I never finished college.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, School, College

  Source: bigthink.com

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• But initially when I was working with my dad, it was in special effects puppets with radio control and motors and puppet effects.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Special, Puppets

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Riding, London

  Source: bigthink.com

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• And my dad's answer would be usually something to the affect of, A, it came out better than he imagined, but also, he said, "No, it would be impossible for me to imagine the way it will come out." He said, "Yes, I story-boarded it, I had a plan, but then I work with an army of great artists and I want all of them to create inside that creation."

  Brian Henson

  Dad, Army, Artist

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I remember my dad turning to me - my dad loves to turn to me and explain why things are funny. He used to do that with Seinfeld all the time. He did it with Colombo, too, set the scene.

  Andy Samberg

  Dad, Remember, Scene

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dad, Thinking, Naked

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• For my parents it was all about getting a deal, my dad came to America and he heard of this concept of brunch. He didn't quite know what it was. And he thought it was this other meal that existed between breakfast and lunch. He was kind of like - I remember he sort of was like America has so much food that between breakfast and lunch they have to stop and eat again. They have brunch. It was completely legal it was, like, a legal meal that you could have. I mean, clearly it wasn't the only reason he came to America, but I think it certainly sweetened the pot for him.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Dad, Mean, Thinking

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• I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.

  Taryn Manning

  Mom, Dad, Grandma

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I grew up in Southern California so I was always at the beach and outdoors. I remember my dad laying around the pool baking; he was practically George Hamilton.

  C. J. Wilson

  Beach, Dad, California

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My dad is a little Scottish guy with tattoos all over his arms.

  Scott Raab

  Tattoo, Dad, Guy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• My parents both worked - my mom was an accountant, and my dad is a builder - and that taught me about having a really strong work ethic, and I respected them a lot for that.

  Miranda Kerr

  Mom, Strong, Dad

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• My dad and I had a real meeting of the minds. We loved to talk about music, politics, and art. He loved children. The thing I missed most about my dad when he died was that this person who really gets who I am at the core was gone.

  Rosanne Cash

  Art, Dad, Children

  Interview with Antonino D’Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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• My dad had more compassion than me. He was nonjudgmental. He didn't care where you stood politically. He just took you as a person on face value. He could love all stripes, and that's why all stripes claim him. He didn't judge.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dad, Compassion, Judging

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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