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I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices. – Dhani Harrison

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches. – Amy Klobuchar

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew. – Taryn Manning

I owe a lot to my dad, just for having provided the wrestling business for us to get into. – Owen Hart

There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did. – Owen Hart

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else. – T-Pain

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church. – Lynn Johnston

I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey. – Parker Stevenson

My dad has a really great record collection that basically went up to the year I was born: 1984. – Ezra Koenig

My dad was a musician. He was a singer and he played the guitar, so music was always around. – Kris Allen

I knew that I needed to do something that I desperately loved. There was a period where I did question if it was acting because I knew that I would be making things hard on myself. I knew that there was going to be a little bit of a hullabaloo because of my dad being who he is and all that. – Colin Hanks

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate. – Dusty Baker

My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry. – Albert Finney

A lot of times I would go into a room and audition for whatever sitcom it was and they would expect me to do sort of what my dad was doing and I am not him so they would be disappointed and I would feel nervous and not know exactly how to do it. – Jason Ritter

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version. – Jason Ritter

I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. – Yancy Butler

My dad was a football player – a soccer player – for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable. – Ian McShane

And, you know, my dad would show me some things sometimes, but the best things that I got to do were to actually see really good players play up close. That gives you an idea of fingering and technique and what not. – Dweezil Zappa

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years. – Beau Bridges

I lost my dad way too early and it was agonisingly awful. I missed him so much and I hated knowing that I could never again pick up the phone to tell him about my day. – Monica Seles