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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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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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"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"
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"I didn't want to become an actress because the competition with my mother would have been to much to live up to."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
Mother
"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."
Anthropology
"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
Writer
"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
Time
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
Soul
"I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world."
American
"I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity."
Diversity
"Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed."
Meaning
"Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance."
History
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