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" My dad told me, 'It takes fifteen years to be an overnight success', and it took me seventeen and a half years. "
Adrien Brody
Success
Me
Overnight Success
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" When I was little, we lived on 8 acres and my mom had a horse. But when I was 7, my mom kicked my dad out, and then in order to feed us five kids, she got critters cheap or for free and raised them for food. We milked a cow, raised chickens, pigs and beef cattle. We heated our one-story house with wood and stayed cold all winter. "
Bonnie Jo Campbell
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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. "
Suzanne Collins
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" Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer. "
Lisa Frank
Me
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" My dad is so unique in what he does. It's not like I'm taking a torch from him and doing his thing. I hope I've carried from him a little bit of a sense of irony, a little bit of a wink. "
Willie Geist
Doing
Him
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" My dad, for the first 15 years of my career, on every visit he made to a play or a film set, would find the oldest person on set and say, 'Do you think my son has a future?' "
Kenneth Branagh
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You
Son
" My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him. "
Eminem
Even
Seen
Picture
" My dad was a Muslim and would pray five times a day. I would pray with him as much as I could, in the morning before school. Sometimes he would tell us moralistic tales about genies, magic carpets and wondrous lands. My mother is not religious - she's just English. "
Bat for Lashes
School
Mother
She
" If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way. "
Derrick Rose
Hurt
Past
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" I was very thankful that my mother was a very strong mom. She was mom and dad. She is mom and dad. She is my hero. "
Ryan Frazier
She
Mom
Hero
" My dad always supported me. Sometimes we didn't have anything to eat for breakfast, but if we could eat lunch and dinner, we weren't poor. "
Albert Pujols
Breakfast
Sometimes
Dinner
" The most important lesson my dad taught me was how to manage fear. Early on, he taught me that in a time of emergency, you've got to become deliberately calm. "
Rudy Giuliani
Calm
Early
You
" That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. "
August Strindberg
Position
Family
Enemy
" I never met a person as determined as my mother. From working hard for six kids to just trying to keep the household down or maintain my father's discipline, my dad, I'm so much like my father too. My father was so introverted, quiet, shy, nice. I got attributes from my father and mother. "
Sugar Ray Leonard
Discipline
Father
Mother
" My father was something of a rainbow-chaser. "
Marc Davis
Something
Father
Dad
" I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun. "
Max Lucado
Simple
Mom
Man
" 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
" My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine. "
Danny Meyer
Good Food
Me
Wine
" We had our first earthquake over here recently. That was a bizarre feeling. I just became disoriented and I remember my dad freaking out. Nothing broke or anything. "
Ashley Scott
Nothing
Remember
Over
" 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
" The military infrastructure grew me. My faith in God is important, my belief in my country is important, my relationship to my family is important, the things that Mom and Dad tell you growing up are important. "
Tommy Franks
God
Faith
Mom
" A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. "
Enid Bagnold
Baby
Always
Woman
" Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly. "
Stephen Karam
Pine
Raised
Game
" I'd watch the news with my dad, and he'd quietly mock the anchors. An anchorman might say, 'Police are searching for...' and my dad would say in the anchorman's voice, 'the man who gave me this haircut.' This was in the real Ron Burgundy '70s. And I would laugh and start doing it myself. "
Steve Rushin
Me
Myself
Voice
" Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In 1977, when I was 7, it was 'Star Wars.' That was a life-changer. "
David Benioff
Childhood
Memories
Movies
" I used to see my dad and his brothers rhyming, and I knew I wanted to do that one day. I'm like any other boy, always wanting to follow in his father's footsteps. "
Romeo Miller
Always
Follow
Father
" 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 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
Brother
Sister
Parents
" My father loved people, children and pets. "
Tony Visconti
Pets
Children
Loved
" 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
Kind
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Kid
" I love all my fam. I have quite possibly the best dad, mom, and sister in the world. "
Ryan Eggold
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Sister
Mom