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" My dad used to say, 'Just be yourself and you'll be fine,' but it's really, really true. "
Bellamy Young
Yourself
Be Yourself
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" Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up. "
Eleanor Tomlinson
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Growing
" My mom worked for Apple, and my dad owned his own business. "
Travis Scott
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" Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. "
Michael Reagan
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" My worldview comes from a collection of the books I have read, the people I have met, and my conversations with my dad. "
Brian Kilmeade
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Worldview
People
" It was the late '70s when my parents met. My dad was a lighting director for a soap opera, and my mom was a temp at the studio. They moved into a house in The Valley in L.A., to a neighborhood that was leafy and affordable. "
Meghan Markle
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" One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. "
Camryn Manheim
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" People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that. "
Bob Newhart
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" 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
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Life
Father
" My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose my jobs carefully so I wouldn't have to take too much time off. It got harder toward the end with my A-levels; there were sleepless nights, and I was doing my homework on the plane coming home, but I pulled through. "
Georgia May Jagger
Home
Doing
Time
" 'Rust' really started with the passing of my dad, and me really looking back inward to my self about where I stand with all things on a faith/religious/spiritual level. And it's really put me on this interesting road and very educational, I might add, road back to understanding the role of faith in God and Christ in my life. "
Corbin Bernsen
Life
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" I want to find a man and have a family. "
Bellamy Young
Man
Find
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" My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough. "
Katee Sackhoff
Said
Work Hard
Work
" Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right. "
Wade Boggs
Game
Father
Play
" I was with All Pro Dad, and I was coaching. People recognized me as a coach. They might see my face and say, 'What's going on there, is that something with the Colts or the Buccaneers?' Then they realize, 'This is something with my kids; let me explore.' So I think that helped, that name recognition. "
Tony Dungy
People
Think
Face
" I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy. "
Martha MacIsaac
Together
Maturity
Mom
" My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children. "
Laila Ali
Great
Children
Walk
" I called up and said, 'Dad, I won a MacArthur.' My father goes: 'I always thought your sister would win that,' and I said, 'Dad, just say congratulations and keep your private thoughts private.' At that point he laughed, then burst into tears, and it was obvious that he was so happy and proud. "
Bonnie Bassler
Father
Happy
Proud
" My dad was born in Haiti, and my mom was born in Tunisia. She is the daughter of a white French woman and a black, half-Guadeloupian, half-American man. My mom traveled the world a lot. She went through Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. She just got to experience a lot of different cultures, and that came through my childhood. "
Cecile McLorin Salvant
Daughter
Experience
Man
" A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad. "
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You
Time
Stand
" My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves. "
Ted Cruz
Up
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Generation
" 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. "
Claire Danes
Say
Face
Got
" People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to. "
Bill Gates
Great
Saying
Place
" I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings. "
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Who
Born
Buildings
" My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan. "
Karan Johar
Father
Graduation
Me
" My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years. "
Larry Elder
Fight
Him
Years
" I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics. "
Cullen Bunn
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" I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid. "
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Mom
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" In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan - he told me that I might die if I didn't go through with it. "
Eliot Sumner
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Me
" My parents were reasonably affluent in Kabul. In the States, we were on welfare. My mom became a waitress, and my dad became a driving instructor. That part of the American immigrant experience applies to people of any nationality. "
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" One of my insecurities was my looks. I was short, cute and chubby, and Dad used to call me his 'little fat sausage.' But I always knew I had musical talent. "
Suzi Quatro
Always
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