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" I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it. "
Maika Monroe
Independence
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Day
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" I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. "
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" I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him. "
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" I do my work and do the best I can. I'm quite happy with my anonymity. All I can ever hope for is that I continue to do great work that will be remembered, and I leave my imprint so that my son can say proudly, 'That's my dad!' "
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" Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to. "
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" My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' "
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" My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and I'd see footage from the war zone, and I would hear the word 'Vietnam,' and I would know my dad was over there, and it was a very frightening experience for me. "
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" The really hard moment was when my dad said, 'Honey, if an agent is telling you to lose weight, then maybe you should lose weight.' I was 15, standing in our living room, having a moment I will never forget. I never had a parent tell me to lose weight, and it hurt. "
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" You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your dad, not your friend. You have to take it if you feel it instinctively. "
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" When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea. "
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" Now I see other kids and their parents, and I compare them to my dad. Our dad was a really normal father when he was with us. We would get grounded if we did something bad. He would ground us. He wouldn't call it grounding; he'd just say, 'You're on punishment.' Sometimes we'd be on punishment a lot. "
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" When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit. "
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" My dad was a very strong man, very stubborn as well. "
Paul Pogba
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" My dad is too cute. Every morning, he sends me one motivational quote. I have a folder full of all his quotes. "
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" I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes. "
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Whenever
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" When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!' "
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Feet
Me
You
" My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music. "
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" My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning. "
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" Most of my memories are of softball games in Falls Church with my sister, yard sales across town on the weekends with my grandma, grocery-shopping and errand-running with my mom, learning to drive an old Volkswagen bug down Old Keene Mill Road with my dad. "
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" My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument. "
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" I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser. "
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" I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them. "
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Up
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" Ultimately, my connection to my Indian-ness comes back to my mom and dad. They would all tell me and my siblings stories about their life in India, so it was very close to my two brothers and my sister and I. "
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" I'm compared to my dad all the time, and I've learned to take it positively by working hard. "
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" Dad always said, 'Get a degree and do something on your own before you start movies.' He always kept me grounded, telling me the realities of the business and the struggles even the legends had to go through. "
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" I'm into being a dad, that's where my focus is most of the time. I'm an actor that's my job, but it's not my life. I have a lot of other interests too. "
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" I was raised by my mom. My dad was always traveling, but she allowed me and encouraged me to be close to my dad. So I grew up with three parents: my mom, my dad and my stepmom. Ninety percent of the time I was with my mom, and 10 percent was with my dad. "
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" I was born in West Plains, and we lived here till I was one. Then my dad needed to get a job, so we moved to the St. Louis area. I lived in St. Charles, on the Missouri River, till I was 15. "
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" There's not a single day when I walk the streets of New York City when someone doesn't come up to me to say: 'Please, please, ask your dad to run for president.' We really need a businessman as leader of our country, not a politician. "
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" My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was what my dad had done. "
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