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  • My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesnt work hard enough.

    Dad   Hard Work   Talent  
  • One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.

    Sports   Fun   Dad  
  • [My dad] didn't do much apart from the traditional winning of bread. He didn't take me to get my hair cut or my teeth cleaned; he didn't make the appointments. He didn't shop for my clothes. He didn't make my breakfast, lunch, or dinner. My mom did all of those things, and nobody ever told her when she did them that it made her a good mother.

    Mom   Mother   Dad  
    Michael Chabon (2012). “Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son”, p.17, Harper Collins
  • I definitely want to go and do some more research. My dad used to make me sit outside on the steps all night long, looking for a UFO flying by and I had to do that for years.

    Dad   Night   Years  
    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.

    Dad   Hero   Kids  
  • The first show that my dad and my mom did together was for, was a comedy series, a short form that went in the middle of late-night news, and then through all of their career, it was always the "Ed Sullivan Show," it was a variety act, my dad was on the "Jimmy Dean Show" for a few years.

    Mom   Dad   Night  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

    Mom   Teacher   Dad  
  • Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.

    Uncles   Dad   Smart  
  • I like poor materials. I couldn't see myself making a bronze sculpture - it's not me. I like neon, because it's moving constantly and like drawing. The chemicals going through the neon turns me on really - it's sexy. I like fabrics, but one of the main things with objects is that I really have to love them before I can use them. I have to have the object around me a long time. The little chairs I used in my last White Cube show are ones that my dad bought for me. A sort of a psychometry with objects and things. It's like the pieces I've made are my things.

    Sexy   Dad   Moving  
    Source: www.artdesigncafe.com
  • When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in my life yet. I didn't have enough sense of myself and self-esteem and confidence: this is when I started looking to get my master's in something.

    Source: www.psychologyart.com
  • Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high school - so right around the time he's going through his big renaissance is right when I'm starting to do my high school revolting.

    Dad   Father   School  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

    Brother   Dad   Musical  
  • Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

  • From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

    Brother   Dad   Years  
  • My mother is very emotional as well, but my dad is more of the guts of the family. He was the main preacher, so he kind of had this little Pentecostal flair, but they are born-again.

    Mother   Dad   Emotional  
  • During the Depression, my dad made radios to sell to make extra money. Nobody had any money to buy the radios, so he would trade them for dogs. He built kennels in the backyard, and he cared for the dogs.

    Dog   Dad   Backyards  
    Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.121, Penguin
  • My dad is a good dad.

    Dad   Good Dad   My Dad  
    "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. November 11, 2005.
  • My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

    Growing Up   Dad   Player  
    "Knowing Lindi Ortega By Her 'Little Red Boots'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 4, 2011.
  • The only way to tell my Dad something is to write it on a note, and tie it to a brick, and throw it through a window. Of course, now Dad's armed with a brick.

    Dad   Writing   Ties  
    "Titus" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.
  • Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.

    Growing Up   Dad   Rain  
  • I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

    Girl   Summer   Mom  
    "Lauren London Exclusive Interview: ‘Under My Skin” (Part 2)". Interview with Kathleen Cross, kathleencross.com. June 2, 2011.
  • My dad was dead, so these streets had to raise me.

    Death   Dad   Raises  
    Song: Growing Pains
  • I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on me - that perfectionist pressure. And that can work in two ways: It can make you a perfectionist yourself, or it can eventually break you in the long run.

    Running   Dad   Son  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The truth is, my dad was a great driver. I mean, he could handle an automobile. He loved speed. He used to joke that his one regret was he didn't join the volunteer fire service so he could drive the ambulance.

    Dad   Regret   Mean  
    "Things My Father Taught Me: An Interview with Joe and Hunter Biden". Interview with Ryan D'Agostino, www.popularmechanics.com. May 18, 2016.
  • I just wanted to be like my dad, Jesus. He was a good shortstop.

    Jesus   Dad   Wanted  
  • And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.

    Funny   Art   Dad  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

    Mother   Dad   Stage  
  • My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

    Brother   Dad   Nice  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I guess I learnt to appreciate old Hindi-movie music from my dad and somewhere down the line picked up jazz as well.

    Dad   Appreciate   Lines  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Poseidon held out his arms and gave me a hug. I realized, a little embarrassed, that I'd never actually hugged my dad before. He was warm—like a regular human—and he smelled of a salty beach and fresh sea air.

    Beach   Dad   Sea  
    Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.246, Penguin UK
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