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My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.

~Dorothy Hamill

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My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid.

~Dorothy Malone

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My father's a police officer, and he's told me numerous times about his training and how they've gone through what they call verbal judo, which is essentially them trying to de-escalate the situation.

~Doug Baldwin

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Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

~Doug Davidson

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If you're old enough to father a child, then you're old enough to accept financial responsibility for that child. If you don't want your embarrassing, unlawful, and irresponsible behavior going viral, man up and pay up.

~Doug Ducey

Topics: Accept Behavior Child Embarrassing Enough Father Financial Going Irresponsible Man Old Old Enough Pay Responsibility Then Up Viral Want You Your

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I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.

~Doug E. Fresh

Topics: Age Around Between Family Father Give He Information Kid Old Parent Powerful Relationship Right Smoking Stop Stopped Three Two Useful Very Years You

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I'm in an age bracket now where I can play the father of an adult daughter whose going through her life issues, and she'll come to me for advice while I'm wearing my Christmas sweater and swirling a cup of hot cocoa.

~Doug Jones

Topics: Adult Advice Age Bracket Christmas Come Cup Daughter Father Going Her Hot Issues Life Me Now Play She Sweater Through Wearing Where While Whose I Can

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I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

~Doug Liman

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More of 'The Bourne Identity's script was taken from the events of the Iran Contra, which my father investigated for the Senate, than what was taken from Robert Ludlum's novel.

~Doug Liman

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When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.

~Doug Liman

Topics: About Absurdity Always Because Come Could Deadly Father He His Home Laugh Lot Me Secret Senate Serious Stories Talk Tell Things Top Work Would

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