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If the role is challenging enough, I don't see why I shouldn't play an older man or a father figure. It is not about playing what you are in real life. We are called actors for a reason!

~Aamir Khan

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Basically, a manager is a father figure to 20 or 25 blokes. It's about trying to get the best out of them and creating team spirit.

~Alan Shearer

Topics: About Basically Best Creating Father Father Figure Figure Get Manager Out Spirit Team Team Spirit Them Trying

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Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.

~Alia Shawkat

Topics: Father Father Figure Figure He Just Like Me Smart Sweet

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All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

~Andris Nelsons

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The father figure is something I love, but also suffocate from and want to work against.

~Ang Lee

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With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

~Anthony Horowitz

Topics: Audience Away Been Distressed Every Father Father Figure Figure Further Get Grandfather Happy Kids Little Myself Passes Target Think Thought While Year

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My life has always been with my dad. Since I can remember, I was raised by my father my entire life. So he's kind of been that mom and father figure - always.

~Apolo Ohno

Topics: Always Been Dad Entire Entire Life Father Father Figure Figure He Kind Life Mom My Life Raised Remember Since I Can I Was Raised

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I'm very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don't really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It's about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.

~Bharati Mukherjee

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Mubarak would meet with me when I was at Central Command. He would lean and put his hand on my knee, as if a father figure, and say, 'General, don't ever forget the Arab Street. Listen to the Arab Street.' I'd like to go to him now and say, 'Mr. President, what about that Arab Street, what's that all about?'

~David Petraeus

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I know a lot of people feel like they get eaten alive by New York, but I feel it more as a father figure or something - this huge presence watching over me. I definitely feel better and work freer here.

~Dev Hynes

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