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"Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand."
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"There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in."
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"Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church."
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"America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us."
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"I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12."
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"My father was never anti-anything in our house."
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"The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role."
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"My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends."
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"The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter."
Love
"Paper Moon didn't bring me love."
Love
"I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me."
Acting
"Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth."
Father
"I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens."
Sex
"My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself."
Time
"I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me."
Money
"I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema."
American
"I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle."
Father
"I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time."
Time
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