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I can't tell you how many letters I've gotten where someone showed 'Sordid Lives' to their mom, dad, or family and used it as a tool to come out.
Del Shores
Mom
Family
You
Tool
Out
Tell
Someone
Come
Sordid
How
Gotten
Where
Used
Many
Dad
Letters
Lives
My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.
Denis Leary
Great
Game
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Think
Wayne
Kind
Great Guy
John
Guy
John Wayne
He
Great Sense
Missed
Also
Real
Very
Hockey
Much
Dedicated
Dad
Ever
I took one thing to heart that I heard from Sidney Poitier in 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.' And it resonated so much with me. He says: 'Dad, you always looked at yourself as a black man. I look at myself as a man.'
Dennis Haysbert
Myself
Me
You
Man
Heart
Yourself
Black
Dinner
Took
Guess
Says
One Thing
He
Look
Looked
Always
Coming
Heard
Much
Dad
Thing
Dad worked as a security guard for United Airlines, and Mom was a housewife who cleaned houses to make ends meet.
Dennis Haysbert
Mom
Guard
Meet
Airlines
Security
Cleaned
Make
Houses
Housewife
Ends
Worked
Who
Dad
United
A middle child, I was born in the depths of the Great Depression. My dad and mom were factory workers, struggling to make ends meet.
Dennis L. McKiernan
Depression
Mom
Great
Meet
Great Depression
Born
Struggling
Factory
Make
Were
Child
Middle
Ends
Depths
Workers
Dad
I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.
Dennis Miller
Life
Politics
Mom
Thought
Made
My Life
Sense
Think
Out
Kind
About
Both
He
Know
She
Democrats
Were
Been
Moved
Republicans
Who
Dad
Early
I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.
Dennis Quaid
Life
Love
Good
You
Yourself
Focus
Kids
About
Like
How
Being
Much
Teach
Dad
There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.
Derek Cianfrance
Life
Love
Time
Character
People
Wife
My Life
About
Never
Likable
Most
Because
Always
Understood
Human
Human Beings
Hollywood
Certainly
Beings
Dad
Thing
Sympathetic
My dad worked on ambulances for a while; my mother had a lot of different jobs with the city.
Desiigner
Mother
Jobs
City
Had
Lot
Different
While
Worked
Dad
I remember how my dad was so into herbal solutions and health food well before that stuff became popular.
Deval Patrick
Health
Food
Remember
Before
Solutions
Stuff
Well
Became
How
Popular
Dad
Just knowing your dad is a professional basketball player, it just makes you feel like you're destined for.
Devin Booker
You
Destined
Feel
Like
Knowing
Makes
Just
Your
Professional
Dad
Player
Basketball
Basketball Player
I think people like to think I'm in some way financially dependent on my family - on my dad - but the fact of the matter is I've been emancipated from my father since I was 14 years old. That's something people don't know or understand.
Devon Aoki
Family
People
Matter
Old
Father
Think
Way
Financially
Some
Something
Something People
Fact
Since
Like
Know
Understand
Been
Years
Dependent
Dad
I guess I figured out my dad was a fight coordinator pretty early, because I always saw him running into walls and stuff and nobody got mad at him, but it took me a lot longer to figure out what Mom did, because it was usually stuff on the telephone.
Devon Bostick
Mom
Me
Fight
Walls
Took
Guess
Saw
Telephone
Mad
Out
Running
Pretty
Nobody
Stuff
Longer
Him
Because
Always
Got
Lot
Did
Figure
Figured
Dad
Coordinator
Early
I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.
Dhani Harrison
Music
Me
Everyone
Able
Through
Over
Make
Without
Goes
Hanging
Just
Want
Which
Plan
Really
Pop
Pop Star
Whole
Dad
Star
Thing
Position
'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
Dhani Harrison
Me
Words
School
Down
Those
Head
Check
Sage
Years
Your
Dad
Keep
Kept
My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
Dhani Harrison
Me
You
Say
More
Like
Look
Than
Used
Dad
Playing music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.
Dhani Harrison
Music
Family
You
Business
Natural
Try
Become
Other
Way
Plumber
Taking
Over
Like
Know
Well
Learn
Felt
Always
Very
Family Business
Your
Lessons
Dad
Eventually
Things
Playing
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
Music
Me
Own
Saw
Kind
My Own
Maiden
Never
He
Absorb
Knew
Devices
Around
Doing
Were
Left
Iron
Iron Maiden
Just
Just Kind
Really
Dad
Playing
I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'
Dhani Harrison
Life
Music
My Life
Finished
Band
Our
Our Music
Kind
He
Stuff
Over
Like
Prince
Until
Hall
Got
Fame
Get
Did
Died
Done
After
Then
Ages
Working
Dad
Now
Play
Phase
Albert
Album
I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.
Dhani Harrison
Old
Recording
Gone
Gigs
Some
Tour
Stuff
Like
Couple
Him
Hall
Years
Five
Did
Six
Japan
Shows
Dad
Played
Albert
We started watching 'Doctor Who' as a family because our first daughter was a cranky baby, and she would get up during the night - and it was her dad's job to stay up because I worked at night.
Diana Gabaldon
Family
Doctor
Job
Daughter
First
Baby
Our
Would
Stay
Doctor Who
She
Because
Up
Get
Cranky
Worked
Who
Dad
Her
Started
Watching
Night
When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.
Diana Lopez
College
Become
Architect
He
Off
Eighteen
Dad
My dad put me in a theater group camp at Santa Monica Playhouse when I was, like, six, and then I started to realize I really liked it when I was 11 or 12; it was nice to just escape.
Diana Silvers
Me
Nice
Group
Put
Like
Liked
Camp
Escape
Six
Just
Theater
Realize
Then
Really
Santa
Santa Monica
Dad
Monica
Started
Before I cook, I always have to put on music that parents listened to while cooking. I remember waking up in the morning and seeing my dad making breakfast with music and cutting up the tomato and singing to it and just handling food with such care. So when I cook, I put on salsa, vallenato, cumbia, or anything that reminds me of Colombia.
Diane Guerrero
Music
Food
Morning
Me
Cooking
Remember
Care
Parents
Singing
Before
Breakfast
Seeing
Colombia
Put
Reminds
Always
Making
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Handling
Listened
Just
Anything
While
Cutting
Cook
Dad
Tomato
Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was a kid, and I watched him not go down... I think him just taking a lot of blows and not going down, it was so moving.
Diane Lane
Fight
Down
Think
Ali
Kid
Taking
Him
Because
Go
His
Lot
Model
Blows
Going
Essentially
Just
Moving
Muhammad
Muhammad Ali
Dad
Watched
As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school because I had learning difficulties or whatever. I would wish that they could just plant a chip in my brain so that I would know everything and not have to study.
Dichen Lachman
Me
Learning
School
Try
Plant
Wish
Whatever
Difficulties
Seven
Everything
Would
Could
Through
Had
Study
Know
Because
Brain
Very
Person
Just
Eight
Chip
Hard
Tutor
Dad
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