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- Nov 07, 2020
Father Quotes
On fathers, faith, and what gets passed down.
This collection includes a personal account of learning Catholic prayer practice during a conversion, and a decision two parents made together about which faith tradition their child would follow. For devotional reading, see Prayers.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020
But as my brother was doing his research for a book about my father, it became his opinion that the most influential anti-semitism my father encountered when he was growing up was from Jews, because his relatives were German Jews, and doctors.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father has played at Celtic before. He has told me it is really intense, and it is good to grow as a footballer by playing for this club.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the youngest of nine siblings... I lost my father when I was just 13. For me, the elders have been my gods.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music's always been a big part of my life. Because of my father, I was always surrounded by music and musicians, and in school, I was in the chorus, and I played various instruments.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born and raised in L.A. My father was born and raised in L.A. So we're old hands here.
- Far
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in 1943 at Neston in the Wirral, not far from Liverpool where my father, Richard William Hunt was a lecturer in paleography, the study of mediaeval manuscripts.
- Losing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
After working for a couple of years, I have realised how much hard work it takes to become an actor, and my father has gone through it all these years. It's draining, both physically and mentally, but he makes it look so effortless.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every son's first superhero is his father, and it was the same for me. For me, he was Superman and Batman combined.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a child, I would get film offers, and all my friends would tease me saying, 'You will also be an actor like your father,' or 'Don't forget us.' I always took it as a joke, but subconsciously, I felt maybe this was my true calling.
- Be Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I had decided to become an actor, I did a lot of soul-searching to figure out how I could be different. What could I bring to the table that others or my father couldn't have? That's when I worked on my strong points, namely action and dancing.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had a flat rule. He believed that every man's house was his castle. He had a flat rule: no man could come in his house without his permission.
- Patriotism
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
From my father's point of view, without a thought for self, a true patriot stands up against the stones of condemnation and speaks for those who are given no real voice in the halls of justice or the halls of government.
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- Nov 07, 2020