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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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"For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values."

"I'm a mom, a full-time mom when I'm not taping. I do the carpool thing, and bake the cookies, and do the homework."
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"I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere."

"If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay."

"I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls."
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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."

"In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live."

"Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me."

"Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me."

"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."

"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

"Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again."

"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."

"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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