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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."

"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."

"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."

"Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children."

"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
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"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."

"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."

"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."

"My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being."

"So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?"

"I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know."

"I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know."

"I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas."

"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."
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