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"I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."
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"I wanted to play a mother again. I thought it would be interesting to play the mother of an older child. And it was also the kind of part I've been looking for my whole career, actually, in film. You know, just to play a femme fatale who's very smart, and wicked."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other."
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"A woman today is good, or she is bad, according to the way she does a thing - and not because of the thing itself."
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"Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy."
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"Never let them see you in public after you've turned thirty-five. You're finished if you do!"
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"I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."
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"It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer."
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"The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man."
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