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Shirley Knight

"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about."

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"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about."

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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."

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"My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!"

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"One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red."

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"I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother."

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"Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother."

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"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them."

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"My mother's suicide attempts were a way to release anxiety and get attention. Some of the attempts were drug reactions she didn't even remember later on."

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"I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college."

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