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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"Yeah, I read Judy Blume. My mother didn't like that, but I read it anyhow."
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"I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher."
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"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"Terry's mother worked in the film industry for many years. She always wanted him to marry an actress."
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"I am no mother, and I won't be one."
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"I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me."
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"China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S."
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"In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin."
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"My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer."
Dance

"It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group."
Dance

"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
Mother

"I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult."
Film

"Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure."
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