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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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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 buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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"Both my parents were doctors, and my mother had her surgery in the house. There were six children."
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"That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in."
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"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."
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"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
Jazz
"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
Advice
"People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch."
People
"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend."
Life
"Acting is everybody's favorite second job."
Acting
"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
Ability
"Just let the wardrobe do the acting."
Acting
"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."
School
"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being."
Movies
"Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world."
Beer
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