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"I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it."
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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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"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."
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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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"The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it."
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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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"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."
Friendship
"I don't have many easy songs."
Music
"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
Reality
"A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made."
Baby
"Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food."
Food
"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."
Being
"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."
Time
"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."
Hope
"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
People
"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."
War
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