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All three of my parents - I also had a stepmother - were teachers, and my dad taught high school, and as he always reminded me when I was going to spend some money on something, 'Your mother and I, in the Depression, had to decide whether to spend a dime on a loaf of bread or if we could go to a movie with it.'
Dick Cavett
Depression
Me
Money
School
Mother
Three
Parents
Spend
Dime
High
Some
High School
Something
Could
Had
He
Stepmother
Reminded
Also
Always
Go
Were
Going
Taught
Movie
Bread
Decide
Whether
Your
Teachers
Dad
Loaf
Gene Krupa was my big hero, and I used to play on my mother's flour cans and sugar cans with the kitchen knives, listening to the big bands on my dad's records. Gene Krupa and Harry James.
Dick Dale
Mother
Listening
Hero
Big
Sugar
Harry
Gene
Kitchen
Records
Knives
Bands
James
Cans
Used
Dad
Play
Flour
I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.
Dick Gephardt
Education
Good
Me
School
Mother
Opportunities
Important
Gave
Secretary
High
Neither
High School
Through
Driver
Truck
Truck Driver
Household
Got
Go
Up
Very
Labor
Get
Grew
Them
Worked
Hard
Dad
Good Education
Milk
My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.
Diego Corrales
Great
Me
Trouble
Out
Find
Something
Boxing
Escape
Just
Wanted
Dad
Keep
In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.
Diego Costa
You
Son
Gift
First
Brazil
Give
Football
Him
First Thing
The First Thing
Different
Dad
Thing
My dad was a theater designer, and I spent a lot of time hanging around the dressing room listening to whatever the actors were listening to, which is where I heard Pink Floyd for the first time.
Diego Luna
Time
Listening
First
Whatever
Spent
Dressing
Dressing Room
Around
First Time
Were
Heard
Pink
Lot
Pink Floyd
Hanging
Where
Which
Theater
Room
Dad
Actor
Designer
Floyd
My mother died when I was two years old; that's why I have so many daddy issues. And that's why my relationship with my dad is so strong.
Diego Luna
Relationship
Strong
Mother
Old
Issues
Years
Died
Many
Dad
Daddy
Why
Two
My heroes always are mostly my parents - my father especially, and my mom, who's passed on already. My dad is a very strong man, and by him being educated, and a principal and school superintendent over 37 years, he plays such a big role in my life.
Dikembe Mutombo
Life
Mom
Man
Strong
School
Father
Heroes
Strong Man
My Life
Parents
Big
He
Over
Principal
Him
Mostly
Always
Passed
Educated
Years
Very
Role
Being
Dad
Plays
My dad was raised hard. His own dad's mentality was, 'If you're not dead, you can work. If you're not dead, you're all right.'
Dillian Whyte
Work
You
Own
Mentality
Dead
His
Hard
Dad
Right
Raised
My dad was trying to prepare me for what he went through as a kid.
Dillian Whyte
Me
Kid
Through
He
Trying
Prepare
Dad
On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, I want more 'cut' on my guitar - I want more treble.' And he'd say, 'Now, son, you don't want that. It'll hurt your ears.' But my dad just didn't understand.
Dimebag Darrell
You
Hurt
Son
Guitar
Our
Ears
Say
Tell
Recorded
More
He
Understand
Sound
Dude
Demos
Just
Want
Frustrated
Cut
Really
Your
Dad
Now
Early
When Dad died in 1998, it really hit my confidence - he'd helped me write and he thought I was really funny, but since he'd died I didn't feel right. And it felt like no one but me even remembered him.
Dolly Wells
Funny
Me
Confidence
Thought
Write
No-One
He
Remembered
Feel
Since
Like
Him
Felt
Hit
Died
Really
Helped
Even
Dad
Right
My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.
Dolph Lundgren
Me
Relationship
Champion
Father
Father Figure
Mentor
Had
He
Named
Became
Because
Karate
Hard
Brian
Figure
Dad
British
I started wrestling when I was five. I lost my first match and cried in front of my dad, and I never wanted to do that again.
Dolph Ziggler
First
Lost
Cried
Wrestling
Never
Match
Five
Front
Wanted
Again
Dad
Started
My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.
Domenico Dolce
Life
Fashion
Winter
Light
My Life
Same Thing
Summer
Wear
Born
About
Cotton
Weights
Although
Always
Tradition
Been
Very
Same
Just
Different
Heavy
Really
Dad
Now
Mum
Conscious
Thing
My mum was very conscious about fashion, and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer. And jeans.
Domenico Dolce
Life
Fashion
Winter
Light
My Life
Same Thing
Summer
Wear
Born
About
Cotton
Weights
Although
Always
Tradition
Been
Very
Same
Just
Different
Heavy
Really
Jeans
Dad
Now
Mum
Conscious
Thing
Everyone talks about how we're on our phones all the time, but the fact remains that when I'm away on a film set for two months, I can Skype my family. I remember the phone calls my parents had to make when my dad was away for a while when I was younger - that once-a-week expensive phone call! The time pressure on talking to your father!
Domhnall Gleeson
Time
Family
Phones
Phone
Remember
Father
Pressure
Parents
Everyone
Our
Our Father
Months
Phone Call
Phone Calls
About
Fact
Remains
Had
Make
Call
Talking
Calls
Talks
How
Expensive
While
Younger
Your
Skype
Dad
Film
Away
Film Set
Two
Set
I'd seen my dad on stage, and that was fine, but the real excitement was - that was my dad. Even now, when I see his films, he's always my favourite person in the movie.
Domhnall Gleeson
Seen
Stage
Films
Favourite
Fine
See
He
Excitement
Always
Real
His
Person
Movie
Even
Even Now
Dad
Now
I got to work with Cillian Murphy and my dad, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker on 'Perrier's Bounty.' It was a small part, but it was really special.
Domhnall Gleeson
Work
Jim
Small
Small Part
Part
Bounty
Got
Really
Special
Dad
Murphy
My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'
Domhnall Gleeson
Work
Myself
Me
Giving
Be Prepared
No-One
Said
Create
Acting
Prepared
Dad
When I was a little boy, I was fascinated by the way my dad used to laugh at the telly, and from a very early age, I had an idea of what was funny and why people laughed.
Dominic Holland
Funny
Age
People
Way
Laugh
Laughed
Telly
Had
Idea
Boy
Very
Very Early Age
Little
Used
Fascinated
Dad
Why
Early
Early Age
My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They'd always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.
Dominic Monaghan
Mom
Made
Enjoy
Laugh
Kind
Embraced
Fact
Fooled
Liked
Around
Always
Just
Loved
Them
Mom And Dad
Dad
I'm a hands-on dad. I love my kids more than anything. It's very important to me. I'd give myself a 10 out of 10 for being a dad.
Dominic Purcell
Love
Myself
Me
Important
Kids
Out
Give
More
More Than Anything
Very
Than
Hands-On
Being
Anything
Dad
I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.
Dominic West
Me
Mind
Single
Think
Hung
Out
Bored
All-Around
Disapprove
Look
Looks
Comfort
Around
Mothers
Get
Suspicious
Being
Either
Even
Dad
Dozens
Playground
I was very protected growing up. My dad was very strict with me. I was the oldest of four kids, and there are three girls. So I kind of paved the way of what it was like to raise a teenage daughter.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
Me
Strict
Girl
Three
Daughter
Teenage
Way
Kids
Kind
Like
Protected
Up
Very
Paved
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
Oldest
Four
Raise
My dad always produces, and I would always sit in producers' meetings with him. I like the whole thing of putting a movie together. I think that's very exciting.
Dominik Garcia-Lorido
Together
Sit
Think
Meetings
Would
Exciting
Putting
Like
Him
Always
Very
Movie
Producers
Produces
Whole
Dad
Thing
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