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" My dad said, 'If you want to go out with girls and go out with your friends, get a job.' I found one at the local country club as a pot washer in the kitchen. "
Johnny Iuzzini
Job
Friends
Country
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" My mom has accepted my style. My dad is a little suspect with all the bright colors and loud stuff. He's a khakis and polo kind of guy. He's OK with it, but the loud stuff, he says I'm his little daughter. "
Chandler Parsons
Style
Loud
Mom
" I have to remind my dad, 'Journalists - no matter how many cigars they smoke with you - are not your friends, so don't talk to them.' "
Cameron Diaz
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" I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl crush on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started coming to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother died. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started. "
Gary Numan
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Mother
" I don't think it ever occurred to me that I wouldn't be an entrepreneur. My dad became a real estate developer, and that work is usually project-based. You attract investors for a project with a certain life cycle, and then you move on to the next thing. It's almost like being a serial entrepreneur, so I had that as an example. "
Stewart Butterfield
Real Estate
Think
Work
" My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone. "
Damon Wayans
Said
Hi
Father
" My father's father died when he was a teenager, and dad went to work to support his mother and two siblings as a carpenter and as a builder's mule, hauling carts of lumber to construction sites when it was too icy for the mules to climb the hills. "
Maryanne Trump Barry
Climb
Work
Support
" I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room. "
Robert Webb
Tea
School
Dinner
" And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. "
David Bowie
Thought
Band
Grow
" My dad was a holistic doctor, so putting good things into my body has always been something I've strived for. "
Callie Hernandez
Always
Good Things
Good
" I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it. "
Bear Grylls
Space
Remember
Freedom
" I remember opening my dad's closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just... he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways. "
Jon Hamm
Color
Jewelry
Life
" I was often looked at as a leper by kids at school because I was a Jehovah's Witness. They didn't like it - you were 'weird'. And on Saturday mornings, you'd be knocking at their doors. I remember standing there with my mum and dad, thinking, 'Oh my God, I know whose door this is, and I'll have to see them on Monday.' It was terrible. "
Luke Evans
Door
School
Thinking
" The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life. "
Evangeline Lilly
Life
My Life
People
" My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. "
Victor Borge
Caught
Cure
Disease
" Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong. "
Jennifer Grant
Blame
Men
Prove
" Because my dad was often gone, I never wanted to do anything that would make him stay away even longer. I became extra careful about what I said and how I said it, afraid he'd think I was angry or didn't love him. And the truth is, I was angry. I missed him and wanted him there. "
Lily Collins
Think
Truth
Truth Is
" My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily. "
Ram Charan
Mom
Look
Home
" My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.' "
Lee Westwood
Congratulations
Say
Said
" I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. "
Robert Mapplethorpe
" My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious. "
Bill Nighy
Style
Personal
Attractive
" My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage. "
Bruno Mars
See
You
Sharp
" I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married. "
Bonnie Hunt
Think
Dog
Home
" My dad was such a great story-teller, a good teacher. "
Grace Poe
Good
Good Teacher
Teacher
" People often ask me when I realised that I was different. Some people seem surprised that it's a question that I cannot answer. I was never told that I was different. I was always just Sinead; I was just like my dad. "
Sinead Burke
Never
People
Me
" One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. "
Camryn Manheim
Father
Me
Memories
" My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me. "
K. Flay
Me
Serious
Look
" Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real exposure to a sustained religious community - that I first saw people of different races and classes worshiping together. "
J. D. Vance
Community
Fish
Help
" I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working. "
Steven Spielberg
Together
Family
Growing
" My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that's something that's carried over throughout my life. It's how I deal with certain situations. "
Colin Kaepernick
Me
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" My role model is my dad. "
Seann William Scott
Father's Day
Model
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