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“My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.”

Firsts Persons Parent Happened College Dad Band My Family My Dad Singers Harvard First Person

Author:Dean Norris

“My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.”

Firsts Might Wanted Waiting Roles Dad My Dad Disappointment Auditions

Author:Haley Joel Osment

“If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Believe Problem I Believe Stuff Dad Decided My Dad Sober

Author:Jack Osbourne

“From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my intense training with my dad was always to credit.”

Years Firsts Dad Training University My Dad Credit Intense Championship Tennessee Ncaa Intense Training

Author:Candace Parker

“My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal.”

Firsts Film Crazy Stage Dad Shots Universal My Dad Studios Credit Actresses Grandmother Forty Contracts My Grandmother Universal Studios

Author:Chris Pine

“I want to be a dad, first and foremost. I want to be a good father. I've spent so much of my life on the move and travelling around the world that just to set up a home for my family and be a good dad is something that motivates me.”

World Want Firsts Home Moving Father Dad My Family Around The World Good Father Good Dad

Author:Ricky Ponting

“I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.”

Firsts Said I Can Ideas Home Reading Novel Audience Written Crime Dad My Dad Wide Bus Conductor Scots

Author:Ian Rankin

“My dad said: 'It looks like you'll be world No.1 in a few hours and I wanted to be the first to say congratulations.”

World Firsts Looks Said Wanted Hours Like You Dad My Dad Congratulations

Author:Lee Westwood

“When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.”

Firsts Wanted Rooms Nice Mom Dad My Dad My Mom Shirts Pairs Emergencies Flu Ambulance Emergency Room

Author:Rich Lowry

“One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.”

Ifs Want Firsts I Can Play Helping Wanted Parent Goal Brother Mom Dad One Day Beats Ultimate My Dad My Mom My Brother Tennis Ultimate Goal

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.”

Mind Firsts Mean Heard Dad First Time Red My Dad Albums Grades Tape Fifth Fifth Grade Compilation

Author:Andrew Dost

“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!”

Firsts Asks Dad My Dad Makeup Lipstick Wearing Makeup

Author:Georgia May Jagger

“I have 52 first cousins. My mom and dad were the only two to move to North America, so I've got deep family there, but I'm a California kid.”

Firsts Two Kids America Moving Mom Dad My Mom California Cousin North America Mom And Dad

Author:Donal Logue

“I really want to do well at this upcoming match! I'm going to try really really hard! Because it may be my dad's first memory of a match. I really want to win.”

Want Trying Firsts Wells May Hard Winning Memories Dad Drama My Dad

Author:Kim Su-mi

“Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad.”

Firsts Father Brother Dad Humorous My Brother

Book:King John

Source: King John

“Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.”

Ifs Firsts Kids Wanted School Dad Band Guitar Being Cool

Author:Julian Lennon

“The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.”

Firsts Real Night Three Voice Powerful Dog Dad My Dad Sexy Concerts Fifteen Garbage Fourteen Pumpkin Annie Smashing Manson Three Dog Smashing Pumpkins

Author:Amy Lee

“I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.”

“Kazim-Richards - there's only one. You type it into Google and nothing else comes up. My first names were meant to be Colin Kazim but the registry office got it wrong. There is no-one with that name - not even my mum and dad - just me - I love it!”

Firsts Names Type Dad Office Come Up Meant To Be Mum Google Were Meant To Be Mum And Dad

Author:Colin Kazim-Richards

“Why does a dad matter so much to a daughter, in particular? A dad is the one who teaches a daughter what a male is all about. It's the first man in her life--the first man she loves, the first male she tries to please, the first man who says no to her, the first man to discipline her. In effect, he sets her up for success or failure with the opposite sex. Not only that, but she takes cues from how Dad treats Mom as she grows up about what to expect as a woman who is in a relationship with a man. So Dad sets up his daughter's marriage relationship too.”

Source: Be the Dad She Needs You to Be: The Indelible Imprint a Father Leaves on His Daughter's Life

“My first car was a Chevy Cavalier. My dad somehow convinced me that it was a hot sports car because it was red.”

Firsts Sports Car Dad Red Hot My Dad Convinced Chevy Sports Cars

Author:Katheryn Winnick

“My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.”

Firsts Language Dad Workers My Dad Fortunate Ministers Mum Disabled Less Fortunate

Author:John Boyega

“One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but he couldn't make a living that way so he had to support his family as an auto mechanic which he also loved doing. He was also such a great dad because when I first told him I thought I wanted to go into show business, his response was okay, that's interesting.”

Way Firsts Shows Wanted America Interesting Support Dad Musician Okay Response My Dad Mechanic Show Business Always Believe Great Dad Auto Mechanic Talented Musicians

Author:Denis Leary

“The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.”

Firsts Company Dad My Dad Scripts Good Company

Author:Topher Grace

“I'm Italian. I love to cook Italian food, so I learned from my dad how to make sauce and meatballs and all that stuff. With my wife and kids, I started making homemade pasta. The very first time, I didn't have a pasta maker, so I had to cut it with a knife, the old-school way! The noodles were all jacked up, but it was fun.”

Way Firsts Kids School Fun Stuff Cutting Wife Dad First Time My Dad My Wife Cooks Makers Italian Knives Sauce Old School Pasta Homemade Noodles Italian Food Meatballs My Wife And Kids

Author:Joey Fatone

“I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'”

Thinking Firsts Song Jesus Church Dad My Dad Fence Baptists

Author:Aretha Franklin

“I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, "I wanted my first son to be named Dallas."”

Thinking Firsts I Can Wanted Feet Son Grew Dad Grew Up Seven Thirty Texas Airports Port Arthur Dallas Houston

Author:Dallas Roberts

“My first publication was a haiku in a children's magazine when I was 9 years old. I received one dollar for it! I gave the check to my dad for Christmas, and he framed it and hung it over his desk.”

Years Firsts Children Dad Dollars My Dad Checks Magazines Hung Desks Publication Haiku Framed

Author:Linda Sue Park

“My mom is very good at being passive-aggressive, and my Dad is a total wiseass, so I think the mixture of the two of them is my comedy. But, I am definitely the first comedian in my family.”

Thinking Firsts Two Comedy Mom Dad My Family My Dad Very Good My Mom Comedian Aggressive Passive Mixtures Passive Aggressive

Author:Amy Schumer

“I've always taken my love of children from my father. He was a children magnet. Suddenly, having my first child hit home what my dad went through.”

Firsts Children Home Father Taken Dad My Dad Magnet Children Love

Author:Robert Carlyle

“Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.”

Firsts Seems Might Belief Given Dad Reputation Glowing

Book:Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

Source: Good Stuff: A Reminiscence of My Father, Cary Grant

“I was late to the Knicks. My dad was a big fan. But I first started watching baseball; I became a Red Sox fan. My dad was a Mets fan. I wanted to have my own team and league.”

Firsts Bigs Wanted My Own Team Fans Dad Mets Late Red Baseball My Dad League Knicks Red Sox Fans Mets Fans

Author:Noah Baumbach

“I worked at this place called Water World; it was a waterslide park. My brother and my dad framed my first paycheck from this place - which was for $0.00 dollars - because I didn't even make enough to cover the cost of my uniform!”

World Firsts Enough Water Brother Dad Cost Dollars My Dad My Brother Parks Uniforms Paychecks Framed

Author:Summer Sanders

“An actor said recently that, unless you're a parent, you shouldn't play a parent in a film. I don't know who said it, but I disagree. I understand that maybe there are aspects that you don't understand, or maybe this actor or actress had a really strong recent experience with having their first or second or third born child. I don't know. As a dad, I get that. I get that there is no love like it. But, at the same time, love is love.”

Knows Firsts Children Said Play Film Actors Strong Parent Born Love Is Dad Aspect Thirds Actresses Disagree No Love Time Love

Author:Colin Farrell

“Baseball is the president tossing out the first ball of the season. And a scrubby schoolboy playing catch with his dad on a Mississippi farm.”

Firsts President Dad Baseball Seasons Balls Farms Mississippi

Book:Tuned to Baseball

Source: Tuned to Baseball

“Thankfully, in my youth I had the best financial advisor a son could ask for: my dad Walter. When I got that first signing bonus in 1978, Dad took my cheque, announced, 'This is what we're going to do,' and bought an annuity with it.”

Firsts Asks Youth Son Dad My Dad Financial Signing Bonus Advisors Cheques Financial Advisor

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.”

People Men Giving Firsts Kind Important Book Play Shows Pleasure Produce Dad Give Me Theater My Dad Producers Solo Pioneers Shakespeare Play

Author:John Lithgow

“I started taking piano lessons when I was 8 and I wrote my first song shortly after. Music was really important in my family. My grandma was a professional violin player and my parents first met when my dad was giving my mom guitar lessons.”

Giving Firsts Important Song Parent Player Mom Dad Lessons Mets My Family Guitar My Dad My Mom Piano Violin Grandma My Grandma Piano Lesson

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist.”

Firsts Persons States School Born United United States Grew Mom Dad Mets Grew Up My Family My Dad My Mom Iran First Person Pianist Belgium Croatia

Author:Ottessa Moshfegh

“Each of the films, whether it’s Magic Mike or Dallas Buyers Club, was a challenge for me. I had to dig deeper. Also, my decision to shake things up came after my first child was born. I had taken nearly two years off and I thought that I would enjoy my time as a dad and wait until something interesting came along.”

“I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's "Perfect Day" on tv.”

Firsts Wanted Perfect Tvs Dad Six Seven My Dad Comedian Hardy Laurels Perfect Days Laurel And Hardy

Author:Will Smith

“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”

Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway

“I was never pushed into the business. I wanted to play the guitar. When my dad found out I could play pretty good he took me into the studio one day. I did my first session for his label. We did quite a few sessions up there.”

Firsts Play Wanted Found Dad One Day Guitar My Dad Studios Labels Session

Author:Shuggie Otis

“My dad taught me at a very young age that I should work harder than everyone else: Be the first one in and the last one out.”

Should Firsts Age Lasts Young Taught Hard Work Dad Harder My Dad Young Age Work Harder

Author:Mandana Dayani

“I had old bunk beds that my dad got from Seabrook Farms. They were first used by German prisoners during World War II, who were sent to work the farms during the war. The metal beds with their thin mattresses could easily be used as a jungle gym and I loved them.”

World Firsts War Used Dad Bed My Dad War Of The Worlds Gym Prisoner Farms World War Ii Metals World War I Jungle Mattresses Bunk Bunk Beds

Author:David Mixner

“I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, 'If they don't buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.' Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers' story about how you become a successful fish monger.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Stories House Acting Successful Advice Dad My Dad Fishes Toss Best Advice Wagons

Author:Lin Shaye

“I have three older brothers, and we all have different combinations of parents. My father was the best man at my mom's first wedding! And my brother's mother - my dad's first wife - is the sister to my mom's first husband's second wife. So my brothers are both stepcousins and stepbrothers. It's very '70s rock.”

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Author:Inara George

“Lemurs are good parents but they do it in different ways. I originally studied father care. I was very interested in that and we saw that a lot of these animals that lived in pairs and the father wasn't doing anything at all for the first month. But then suddenly, when the baby got to be a certain weight then the dads chipped in and started carrying the babies which was very nice. And then if there was twins or triplets then they helped.”

Ifs Way Firsts Different Care Certain Father Parent Animal Saws Nice Baby Months Dad Weight Different Ways Pairs Twins Very Nice Good Parent Triplet Lemurs

Author:Patricia Wright

“It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen [Stefani], I was amazed at what she went through.”

Feels Firsts Self Helping Stuff Challenges Race Dad Lucky Conscious Amazed Ignored Self Conscious Relays Being Ignored Relay Races

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“My dad was the first one who said, 'You're going to end up behind the plate because you've got a very good arm and you're very smart when it comes to calling a game.'”

Firsts Said Ends Games Behinds Arms Dad Calling Smart My Dad Very Good Plates Very Smart

Author:Jorge Posada

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