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" I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night. "
Lady Gaga
Had
Girl
Skinny
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" My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes. "
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" My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail. "
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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" I come from an artistic family. My dad's an actor, my mother's an actress, my sister's an actress. So I kind of grew up in that kind of environment. Oddly enough, I never really knew about my parents' work. I've seen small clips of it, but we never actually spoke about the business. "
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" I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way. "
Lady Gaga
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Life
Effort
" My dad's a Pentecostal minister, meaning that he's full of charisma. If he's telling a story about Noah's ark, you best know each tiger is going to be having their own little conversation and narrative. "
John Boyega
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" My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. "
Jim Carrey
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" I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me. "
Ricky Ponting
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Family
Life
" My dad is and was very funny and had a really dry sense of humor, which, as a kid, seemed un-fun. But in retrospect, it's kind of hilarious. "
John Mulaney
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Kid
" I'm perpetually lonely. "
Lady Gaga
Perpetually
Lonely
" I wanted to be something and prove to girls in high school, and to my mum and dad, that I could be really... spectacular. "
Charlotte McKinney
High
High School
Prove
" My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective. "
Lady Gaga
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Protective
" My dad was Jewish. My mom is not. So I was not raised anything. "
Matt Lauer
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Mom
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" If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all. "
Lady Gaga
You
Really
Call
" I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15. My dad got sick, and we couldn't afford the lessons, so I stopped and became a cheerleader and wrecked my voice. "
Meryl Streep
Career
Smoking
Voice
" My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves. "
Moon Unit Zappa
Open
Black
Long
" It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. "
Dawn French
Myself
Life
Father
" It was tough times in Ohio when we lived there. My dad was between unemployed and just selling random knickknacks at a flea market. My mom was a cashier at a Chinese food restaurant. They both had awesome careers back in Taiwan, and they came here for my sister and I. "
Chieh Huang
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" One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't. "
Justin Trudeau
Family
People
Citizen
" Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void. "
Justin Trudeau
Solar
Person
Deep
" My father loved people, children and pets. "
Tony Visconti
Pets
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Loved
" Mum doesn't like it when I mention that Dad's a better cook than her. He was born in Spain and spent eight years in Portugal and is exceptional at lots of cuisines. "
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" I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day. "
Monica Seles
Lost
Early
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" I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind. "
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Mind
Creative
Think
" The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. "
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Hollywood
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Hot
" Dad's cancer experience included periods of relatively good health as well as bouts of hospitalisation as he coursed his way through a variety of different chemotherapy treatments. "
Amy Hoggart
Good Health
Experience
Health
" My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there. "
Lady Gaga
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Amazing
Time
" I find it interesting where grunge originated from and then where it was taken, which was high fashion. My dad was so poor that they kept going to Goodwill to get donated ripped jeans. It wasn't a fashion decision; it was an 'I don't have any money, I have no other choice' type of decision. "
Frances Bean Cobain
Money
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Decision
" My parents divorced when I was eight; I never really knew my dad, and my mom raised my older sister and brother and me alone. It was challenging. "
Chrissy Metz
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Sister
Parents
" I'm always sad when Dad doesn't like my columns. He waits for them every week and usually likes them, in which case he doesn't say a word - it's only if he's critical that he bothers to call. "
Sayed Kashua
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Like
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" Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. "
John Ciardi
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