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"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her."
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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 and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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"I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out."
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"I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
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"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
Dew

"There is a great supply of amateur undertakers in show business."
Business

"Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again."
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"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
Life

"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
Family

"No one in the world can beat Ella Fitzgerald as a riff singer."
World

"All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic."
Life

"There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen."
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"After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded."
Houses
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