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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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"I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too."
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"Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son."
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"'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing."
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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
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"My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel."
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"I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old."
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"How can my son not be straight after all I've said and done for him?"
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"My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk."
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"I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime."
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"Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would have said so. That's the way he was brought up."
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"It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments."
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"The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old."
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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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"I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics."
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"Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis."
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"By the time I reached high school my father's grocery store had made our life adequately comfortable and I was able to choose, without any practical encumbrances, the subjects that I wanted to pursue in college."
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"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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"For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity."
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"About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power."
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"We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy."
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