"My mother answers all my fan mail."

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"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag."

Being

"I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story."

Life

"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."

Writer

"Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star."

Artist

"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."

Artist

"Artists are traditionally resistant to labels."

Artist

"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife."

Mother

"I never thought I was gonna live to 30."

Thought

"I think I'm constantly in a state of adjustment."

State

"When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep."

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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."

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"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."

Teri Garr, American Actress

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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."

Prince William, British Royalty

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"I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive."

Judy Collins, American Musician

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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

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"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."

Prince William, British Royalty

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"My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength."

Jayne Meadows, American Actress

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