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"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."
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"My mother loved the Bible."
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"My mother is a singer, still performs today; she's a jazz singer."
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"I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father."
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"My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University."
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"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
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"My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities."
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"If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me."
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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 had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them."
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"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."
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"So I would dance and she would sing, and it was kind of a family thing. Performing was part of our world."
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"I feel like I haven't done my best work yet. I feel like there's a world of possibilities out there."
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"I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again."
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"And what I liked the most about any project was that when it was good, you had a bunch of people trying to accomplish something together who were all acting together as one - that's the most exciting time for me."
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"He was doing - Ray was designing the clothes for my mom's show from California. And one of the first appearances I ever made on television was on my mother's show and Ray and Bob did the clothes for that. It has been a long time."
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"Smoking is one of the leading causes of all statistics."
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"To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face."
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"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went to people who knew more than I did."
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"My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer."
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