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Tatum O'Neal

"Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me."

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"Things with my dad were pretty good until I won an Academy Award. He was really loving to me until I got more attention than he did. Then he hated me."

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Donna Grant

"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."

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Donna Grant

"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."

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Donna Grant

"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."

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Donna Grant

"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."

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Donna Grant

"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."

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Donna Grant

"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

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Donna Grant

"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."

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Donna Grant

"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."

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Donna Grant

"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."

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Donna Grant

"My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house."

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Tatum O'Neal
"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

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Tatum O'Neal
"I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema."

American

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Tatum O'Neal
"I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me."

Money

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Tatum O'Neal
"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

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Tatum O'Neal
"Certain struggles never end."

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Tatum O'Neal
"I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers."

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Tatum O'Neal
"I've overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse."

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Tatum O'Neal
"I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive."

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Tatum O'Neal
"Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond."

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Tatum O'Neal
"Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth."

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