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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad Quotes
The small stuff you inherit.
These dad quotes lean into small, specific memories — watching Monty Python over dinner, catching yourself sounding just like him mid-sentence, or joking that most of your audience is really just your father. For humor along the same lines, see our Jokes page.
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- Doubling
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- Nov 07, 2020
After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a Republican. My mom - my mom was mostly a Republican, although she voted for McGovern over Nixon. She was really proud of that. She also did, however, work for Trent Lott.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
- Glowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the myths about Dad was that he was mean. That simply wasn't true. I always found him generous to a fault but he wasn't reckless with his money, which was rather rare in Hollywood. He'd grown up with nothing and he wasn't about to fritter it all away.
- Grace
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.
- Clever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad, Bob Blum, used to dash across Grand Central's main terminal catwalk several times daily as a young CBS correspondent, running copy from newsroom to studio and back - because CBS' first broadcasts were from Grand Central Terminal. The pictures on people's television sets used to shake when the trains came in!
- Lucky
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- Nov 07, 2020
My novella, 'The Lucky One,' is inspired in part by my dad and also by a Holocaust survivor I interviewed for the Steven Spielberg Survivors of the Shoah Foundation.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and my parents are really right wingers. My dad watches, like, five or six hours of 'Fox News' every day and stuff like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020