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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"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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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"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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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"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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"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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"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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"My dad and my uncles used to always be in the studio at my house."
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"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
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"Our children were trained to look after each other."
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"I learned more about acting from George Stevens in a few months than I had in my entire life up until then."
Life

"Strangers still leave me self-conscious."
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"Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth."
Being

"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day."
Father

"I'm working myself to death."
Death

"I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me."
Business

"I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else."
Want

"I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me."
Death

"I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve."
Hell
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