My Dad Quotes - Page 9

• My dad served in the Air Force as ground crew for several years, and doesn't really talk about it. I know that it's there. I think my main thing about direct or indirect experiences as near to home as it were is the idea of self-sacrifice really.

  Jeremy Northam

  Dad, Home, Sacrifice

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• My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.

  Haley Joel Osment

  Disappointment, Dad, Waiting

  "Haley Joel Osment: What I've Learned" by Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

  Jack Osbourne

  Dad, Believe, Stuff

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• My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

  Peter R. Orszag

  Mom, Mother, Dad

  "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

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• My mum and my dad are the sweetest couple.

  Rita Ora

  Couple, Dad, Mum

  "Riotous Rita Ora talks wardrobe malfunctions, Jay-Z, Eurovision and getting smashed on whiskey" by Gavin Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. August 24, 2012.

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• My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Sports, Football, Dad

  "Ronnie O'Sullivan shies away from the limelight ahead of World Championship". Interview with Jeremy Wilson, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 16, 2010.

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• It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I kind of hung out in the summer and had nothing to do, so I sort of got into acting. And then I was going to Grand Blanc High, doing the acting thing and hoping it would pan out.

  Evan Peters

  Summer, Jobs, Dad

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

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• When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.

  Vanessa Lengies

  Dad, Thinking, Video

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• My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

  Aaron Levie

  Mom, Teacher, Dad

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• My favorite place in the world is my dad's house in Montauk.

  Dylan Lauren

  Dad, House, Favorite Places

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• Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

  Dylan Lauren

  Dad, Clothes, Design

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• My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

  David Oyelowo

  Dog, Brother, Children

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• I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.

  Jake Owen

  Country, Song, Dad

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• I went to the Hall of Fame with my dad. I can't say I really remember too much about it.

  Adam Oates

  Dad, Too Much, Remember

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• My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

  Mitch Pileggi

  Dad, Successful, Unions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

  Sally Pearson

  Dad, Want, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

  Tyler Posey

  Mom, Dad, White

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dad was a great dad.

  Bijou Phillips

  Dad, Great Dad

  "Teenage flicks" by William Shaw, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2002.

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• From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.

  Candace Parker

  Dad, Years, Intense Training

  "Thanks, Dad, for Believing in Me Before I Did" by Candace Parker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  Candace Parker

  Dad, School, Reality

  "Thanks, Dad, for Believing in Me Before I Did" by Candace Parker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.

  Chris Pine

  Dad, Crazy, Grandmother

  "Pine Was Destined To Act" by wenn.com, November 12, 2010.

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• When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?

  Chuck Pagano

  Football, Growing Up, Dad

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• My mom grew up in Kansas, my dad in Indiana. They had boring childhoods.

  Hunter Parrish

  Mom, Dad, Kansas

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

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• I had the best of both worlds when I was a kid. I'd spend a quiet week with my mum, then I'd go to my dad's property in the Adelaide Hills, where there were all these kids and animals running around.

  Teresa Palmer

  Running, Dad, Kids

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• My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.

  Zara Phillips

  Dad, Sometimes, Critical

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