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"You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going."

"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."

"The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me."

"Look Beyond Motherhood and Parenting, Focus on the uniqueness of every Child."

"Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself."

"Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven."

"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."
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"I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret."

"I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and it's in the public arena, but that doesn't entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here."

"The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it."

"I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology."

"I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is."

"Thank God we're not like America: everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women. I think men revere older women."

"However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them."

"I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour."

"I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious."
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