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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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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well my dad forced me into playing the violin when I was about three and it all started from there. I went to Suzuki for violin lessons, and you learn to play by ear instead of reading music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Literally, over a weekend, Friday to Monday, I went from a C.I.A. officer to changing diapers and putting the kid in a Bjorn and going to the playground and hanging out with all the nannies. I was the only dad - everyone kind of gave me strange looks because of our sexist society.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was growing up my mother would say, 'Your dad may have to learn about being a father because he lost his own and that would have affected him'.
- Mom And Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.
- Epidemic
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad and his brothers were involved in amateur dramatics. From an early age, I was dragged along to rehearsals when they couldn't get childcare. I was watching pensioners dance around in sweatpants, which was very traumatic for a young child.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad read, I think, the Perry Mason mysteries and Zane Grey and some humor compendiums... And then at one point, the bookmobile started coming to town. That was really cool. I mean, that was when I read my first Raymond Carver story. I think that was probably 1969 or so. I must have been 13.
- Nov 07, 2020
My mum is a primary school teacher and my dad is a music teacher and I've got loads of brothers and sisters.
- Drank
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, my dad drank a lot of wine, so I got a taste for, and learned how to enjoy it. He spoke a lot about flavors and differences in tastes of wine. Also, our manager, Rick Sales, is a big wine drinker; he goes to a lot of wine-tasting classes, and he's taught me about the qualities of wine.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a dad and that's pretty important.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was a theater actor, so he had an agent, and he brought me into his agency when I was maybe four years old. That was how I started. I started modeling, and it progressed from there.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020