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You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it was not exactly what I wanted to do.

My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they are beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

It is a complex relationship when your dad happened to be president and you are president and then you have all the amateur psychology that goes on when people try to speculate about motivations.

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

I am lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that is important because I want to know that I do not have to take an acting job for two or three years if I do not want to and that I will still be able to make my house and car payments and buy food for my dogs.

My mom and dad just loved the fact that I fooled around. They just embraced it. They had always kind of enjoy it, and they liked it when I made them laugh.

Often as a child you see someone with a learning disability or Down's Syndrome and my mum and dad were always very quick to explain exactly what was going on and to be in their own way inclusive and welcoming.

When I started writing, I did have some idealised notion of my dad as a writer. But I have less and less of a literary rivalry with him as I have gone on. I certainly do not feel I need his approval, although maybe that is because I am confident that I have got it.

It was, you know, probably 80 degrees out in L.A., and my dad took me outside and there was snow. At the time, I thought, Every kid Does not have snow in their backyard on Christmas?'

I do like to play Matt Damon's daddy. He is a wonderful actor, I really admire him, and I do like to play his dad one day.

The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music.

I am the granddaughter of a Welsh coal miner who was determined that his kids get out of the mines. My dad got his first job when he was six years old, in a little village in Wales called Nantyffyllon, cleaning bottles at the Colliers Arms.

It is just really making sure I am doing the best job I can do as a dad. I do think that is my No. 1 job.

My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it is definitely tough getting through.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it.