"I never felt like something, or even more the father figure, was missing, " he said.
Downs became a father figure to Robinson and brought him back into the church.
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"He was a father figure for me, " the younger brother told The Times of India.
When you grow up in the inner cities, most young men don't have a father figure around.
Former Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable said Tom was like a father figure to the rest of the artists.
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He has helped build everything we have got at the club and will miss him like a father figure.
With his newly svelte figure, Cheney would be the perfect father figure for Dakota Fanning's vampire character in the Twilight Series.
Speaking at a reception in London, Mrs Ward said too many children did not know who the latest father figure was.
For Romney, Cloud says it would be possible for a strong father figure to push his child down a lesser path.
In Iron Man, Tony trusts Obadiah Stane and sees him as sort of a father figure while still idolizing his real father.
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"He's like a brother, a coach and a father figure to me, " Stevens said of Lukas, who now claims six Preakness winners.
Instead the smooth-tongued Harold turns the tables by hiring the brothers as his bodyguard-assistants and setting himself up as their father figure.
And with their father in Russia, the older brother may have become a father figure to the 19-year-old these past few months.
Schmidt has served as a sort of father figure in business to the pair of younger visionaries who developed the search engine.
Our founder and chief executive played the father figure in our family.
After his eight-year run as Taylor, the actor tried to break out of his mold as a genial father figure with mixed success.
He was co-owned by America's favorite black father figure, Bill Cosby.
His single and disabled mom did what she could to provide, but with no father figure and a stepfather behind bars, Bailey lacked guidance and stability.
"He freely gave of his time and expertise and became a father figure for me, " recalled Schwarzenegger, who became a top-grossing movie star and governor of California.
"Here's this heavy metaphysical painting with a father figure whose head could be bobbed up and down like a yo-yo, played with, or dropped, " Ms. Fort says.
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Woody goes one way, but Shaun gravitates towards the impassioned rhetoric and strength he sees in Combo, a father figure who flatters his sense of injustice and betrayal.
Queen guitarist Brian May, who published a book on astronomy written with Sir Patrick, described him as a "dear friend, and a kind of father figure to me".
Bronfman's personal journey began in 1981, when Nahum Goldmann, a Zionist leader whom Bronfman saw as a benign father figure, asked him to rescue the debt-ridden World Jewish Congress.
Before my dad passed on he told Janey that she would have to be my father figure, and though she isn't my dad, she is the next best thing.
And if he can't pitch this year, he plans to be a unifying force, a father figure, a clubhouse mascot, a deity on crutches giving the team something to rally around.
Chip Zien warmly enacts Nat Danziger, a sincere, longtime father figure to Charlie and Marion, while Reg Rogers wears a smarmy air as ironically-named Smiley Coy, who executes Hoff's every controlling whim.
One was Johan Cruyff, Guardiola's footballing father figure.
The lawyer described his client as a hard-working young man who had served as a father figure to his teenage sister and is himself the father of a baby son born to his late girlfriend.
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