"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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"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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"I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father."

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"She was a genius, my mother."

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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."

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"If I were like your mother, I would be a woman."

Ryan Stiles, American Actor

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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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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."

Dom DeLuise, American Actor

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"I think that the old Mothers started that trend of rehearsing long hours. We went as long as the later bands did except we didn't get paid for it like they did."

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"My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles."

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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."

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"There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing."

People

"I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try."

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"I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow."

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"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."

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"We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can."

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"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."

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"Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me."

Business

"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."

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

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