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"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."
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"It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'"
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"President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all."
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"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
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"The most important influence in my childhood was my father."
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"When my career first began, I didn't have children - so there's a whole lot of difference in the way I choose roles now. Not just films for my children, but how long I'm going to be away, and is Dad going to be home while I'm gone. That sort-of factor plays a part."
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"My father was a writer and an acting teacher."
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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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"We busted a lot of family secrets with this. But to make a long story short, my parents relationship was built heavily on security issues for my Mom, and when my Dad couldn't provide security, the relationship unraveled."
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"The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too."
Woman
"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."
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"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
People
"The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people."
People
"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."
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"Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world."
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"I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now."
Men
"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."
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"I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here."
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"Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls."
Woman
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