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

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

"The eyebrow pencil and false eyelashes were essential; my mother didn't feel dressed without them."
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"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"


"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."


"When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts."


"This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me."
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