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"Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical."
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"Do not forget you mother, when she is old."
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"Children see beauty in everything."
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"You can become a model of a perfect man or a devoted husband and a father in order to show the role of the a man's responsibility for the family."
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"Do not refuse to help your own relatives."
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"A man's work is from sun to sun but a mother's work is never done."
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"Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom."
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"Children are great observers."
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"Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home."
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"I'm a liberal where children are concerned, a libertarian where adults are concerned - and thinking very seriously about running for the House of Representatives, for whatever that's worth."
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"I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen."
Change
"There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies."
Movies
"The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not."
God
"Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help."
People
"I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it."
Nation
"From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing."
Power
"My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings."
Family
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
Past
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."
Thought
"From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better."
Movies
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