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My dad is a builder, and my mum's a nurse. They're just very normal people.
When I was 17, my dad was teaching in the States. He hired an A-Team-style van, and we drove all over. My resounding memory of it was that we saw all these wonderful places but that my sister and I were being horrible, sulky teenagers.
I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming.
Anything my dad says about what I say about him, I can remind him of ten examples where he publicly humiliated me. We're really close. The culture of mickey-taking is well established in my family.
My dad, who had spent his life as a lecturer, said, 'That's all very well, but you need to earn a living, so why don't you teach?' I did, and 13 years later, I woke up.
One of the most revealing details about my parents is that they only got together three months before my dad's arrest.
I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.
I've traveled all over. I've been to all 50 states. With my dad in the Navy, I lived in the Philippines from nine to 12, and I had dog, monkey, lizard, everything. Then I was in Hawaii, and I'm spear-fishing, catching octopus with my hands.
My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.
All the records I've put out have had either artwork that I did while I was young or something that my Dad painted.
My dad's great. He's an amazing artist. A sculptor. He's wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything.
I want my kids to see me as Dad, for God's sake, not a television personality.
Dad lived such a hectic, hard life on the road, and I didn't get to spend as much time with him as I would have liked.
As far as children out there that hate their moms and dads, just get over it, because you get one dad and one mom. You know, suck it up. Learn something.
I'm not going to retire until I win the NWA World Heavyweight Title, the same belt my dad had. I'm going to win that title before I hang it up.
Before Dad passed, we talked so much about the Goldust character, what it grew into, and how much he was proud of it.
Eventually, and thanks to my dad, I started working for Total Nonstop Action for $1,000 a show. He was the boss, right under Dixie Carter. TNA wasn't doing too well at that point, but I had a job making okay money.
My dad is to professional wrestling what Babe Ruth was to baseball - he's an icon. Working with him and having him around as I try to get this new character over with the fans has been a major help.
I wish I could have wrestled back in that era of the NWA with my dad. Real old-school style.
My dad got me the same mic I use on everything now - this $200 mic from Guitar Center.
My parents split up when I was 16, and, while Mum came to a few Tests, Dad didn't make many. So I was glad he was at Lord's.
After a young adulthood trying to get him to see the world for how it really is, my brother Wes and I have come back to the way our dad is, realizing that it's sometimes our job to see the world as it could be, as we want it to be.
My mom and dad sang in the church choir. They also had a local group. They loved music, especially my dad.
We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.
I just love the fact that Sylvester Stallone is a multi-hyphenate. He acts, he writes, he produces, he directs. I always respected that guy, especially with 'The Expendables' franchise, which is very much the type of movie that my dad and I loved when I was a kid.
My dad was my manager when I was young, but as a professional, Frank Rijkaard.
People who knew Dad used to say at times I was brought up as the son Dad never had.
My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies.
Since I was small, my dad and I have always been friends. He was never really hard on me. He never really pushed me to basketball.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
I think my dad's rebellion is that he's super accepting - I mean, he, like, encouraged me to drop out of university. And to do acting.
My overwhelming memory of being a child is the huge amount of love I felt for my mum. She was my everything, because she was both my mum and my dad.
Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.
When I was about 12 and first started wearing lipstick, my dad would ask, 'Are you wearing makeup?' I would say back, 'You're wearing more makeup there than I am!'
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama believe that the problems that exist in our country can be solved by Washington, D.C. My dad believes that the problems in the country are Washington, D.C.
My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.
We'd just go to church and sing. My dad would get me and my sister Doris, and we would sing together. I sung the harmony, and my sister Doris took the lead.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.
Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?
The contribution of my dad towards women's wrestling in Haryana is immense and his vision and determination have shaped several young careers.
I will be even more strict than my dad, because look at me, I turned out fine.
I try to be a friend to my boys just the way my dad was with me. Subconsciously that reflects in my writing.
My mom and dad have always, always, and continue to be the most incredible citizens of the world and most generous in quiet ways, that I strive to do even a fraction of what they do.
My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
My dad worked nights. When I got home from school I was able to go hang out with my dad and play some golf.
My dad had me on the golf course. It was just something I could do with my dad.
My dad never let me win. I didn't beat him at golf until I was 13. I didn't beat him at basketball until I was 15. When we played each other, he was big and mean.
'Nil By Mouth' was a bit autobiographical, but as I always pointed out at the time, that's not my dad.
Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.
I had one of the most outdoorsy childhoods you could imagine. I basically lived in the woods until I was 13. My dad and I built a huge treehouse in our backyard in Chesterfield, about 30 feet in the air. And we'd vacation on an island in Michigan, where I hunted a deer that we ate.
I was brought up in a bohemian household where my dad plays guitar and my mom plays piano just because they love it.
I love the acoustic sets. Growing up, me and my dad would always watch those because we loved seeing the songs stripped back.
I never think I'm old enough to play someone's dad, even though I have a daughter of my own and a grandson.
My dad did a wonderful feat of memory and storytelling by taking T S Eliot's 'Four Quartets' on the road in a one-man show.
My dad has never had a mobile phone or computer. And that was the way when I grew up, so I still take tech with a pinch of salt.
I'm blessed and fortunate I met many people, like agents, who'd take a meeting with me because my mum or dad would ask if they'd see me.
I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping, 'cause my dad sang: I saw him deal with the ills of the music industry, just on the outside looking in.
I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.
My mom marched into the reservation tent and reserved a Model X for herself. She drives a Jeep; she has four grandchildren. She didn't ask my dad. She just went ahead and did it.
My dad is a big Outlaw country guy - Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Waylon, Willie. He loves Elvis and turned me onto Elvis. He was always playing me stuff. He and I would sing and entertain the family. We'd have a little skit on Thanksgiving or whatever.
My dad was very religious growing up and a little bit closed minded, and I think me being in the theater, two of my three sisters are dancers, so being in the arts world has changed and opened him up in a lot of ways.
I come from good stock. Both of my parents are big - my dad is a big guy; my mom is a big lady.
When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.
My dad was very influential with the music he exposed me to. He was really into blues and folk, so he'd play me guys like Muddy Waters and T-Bone Walker and Richie Havens - a lot of very emotional players.
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
I remember 'Battlestar Galactica' shot at the college that my dad taught at. I remember trying on a Cylon helmet. I think I was 6 or 7 years old.
Without my dad doing what he did, and without me putting in the hours, there wouldn't be any travelling the world or playing with the pros. He's a huge part of it.
When I told people that I wanted to grow up to be a tennis player, they laughed at me. My dad has always been supportive, but he was laughing, too.
My dad was teaching in Kenya, and my grandparents came to visit me there. They brought me to England, and my dad continued to teach for a bit after, so I just continued to live with my grandparents, because that became home, really.
I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'
Especially in front of my dad, I don't like being weak. I don't like crying in front of my dad because I don't want to make him cry.
I was nine, and I was shopping in a supermarket with my dad. There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.
Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
Being a dad and being in the Red Hot Chili Peppers and all the stuff I have to do... The trumpet requires a lot of diligence, and I haven't had the time.
My mum is from Ghana, and she used to play highlife music in the house, and my dad used to listen to music.
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