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My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, an

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger. – Ben Barnes

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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war. – Ben Barnes

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I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling. – Ben Barnes

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My dad is a doctor, a professor of psychiatry, and my mum is a psychotherapist. – Ben Barnes

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My dad had this rock hard body and would work 12- to 13-hour days. The guys he worked with were scrap-iron guys. Nobody on that road crew had read a book in 10 years, but there was something about the way they lived I really admired. – Richard Russo

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My first outdoor cooking memories are full of erratic British summers, Dad swearing at a barbecue that he couldnt put together, and eventually eating charred sausages, feeling brilliant. – Jamie Oliver

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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

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I would never have done what Id done if Id considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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