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"If you've got a lot of children, I think you let the other children bring them up more and you just sort of step in and do stuff like every now and again."
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"About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia."
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"More than Captain America your kids need Amelia Earhart " more than Ant Man, they need Abraham Lincoln - more than Green Arrow they need Gandhi " more than Iron Man they need Isaac Newton."
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"I'm a married man and I've got two children, and you have to do sacrifices."
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"You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much."
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"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
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"Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child."
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"We want better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them."
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"Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity."
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"There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own."
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"There are those who want to believe but can't, and there are those who believe as children and it's no problem for them at all."
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"You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round."
Home

"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
Mother

"Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money."
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"Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once."
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"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
Skill

"I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers."
People

"The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than them by the time I was about 18. They thought I was going to be the ne'er do well, who they'd have to keep worrying about."
Money

"I didn't know what to do with myself. I wasn't excited by the teaching of the school. If they'd been intent on really teaching you things, I would have been a little more attentive."
School

"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
Father

"Blank House was exactly a nice empty sheet where nothing was accountable because you were so naughty that you were in Blank House."
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