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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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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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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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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
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"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."
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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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"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."
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"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."
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"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."
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"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"
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"I had a quick ear and could pick up languages."
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"My mother felt it was time that I had some parental control, so I went off to America and went to New York."
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"Suddenly I had a contract and I was earning lots of money."
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"You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round."
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"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
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"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
Father

"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."
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"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."
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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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"Once, the parental bed collapsed because all the children sat on it at once."
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