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I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he did not believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it is Hannah Dakota Fanning.

My dad was a master butcher and I trained to be a butcher when I left school. I did not enjoy it at the time but I love cooking now, so perhaps I would have been a chef.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

I have got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just do not have the time to work on it right now. I am way too busy with the Kingkiller Chronicles and being a new dad.

If you met my dad, I think a lot of things would be put to rest. Because my pops is a pretty silly guy. But, Coldcut, they are based in the U.K. I am a big fan of jazz music, so American music has had a big influence on what I listen to.

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just was not focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

I am an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he is going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we are going to have a really fun night and it is going to be really exciting. I am really excited for him to experience that.

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I have not been there for him... and that is sad.

Work ethic has always been stressed in my family. My dad is going to be 80 years old and he still works part time. My mom just retired a couple years ago and she is in her mid- to late 70s.

My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I did not have anything left to give.

You know, no matter what I am or what I do for a living, I am still, you know, the husband and the dad and the protector of the house, and I have to be conscientious about that.

Going through the grief period of my dad and losing him - that was the worst thing because you know when you get that call. When you are seven, eight years old, you have that almost vision in your mind of what that is going to be like and what your going to feel like and it Does not prepare you.

I love being a dad. I do have more kids if I could. I do take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.

I have got my dad's height and smoking habit. But I think I have got my mum's looks and sensibilities.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.