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"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."
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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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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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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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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 buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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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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"It is my fervent wish and my greatest ambition to leave a work with a few useful instructions for the pianists after me."
Work
"Truth is a great flirt."
Truth
"Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless."
Men
"I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood."
Faith
"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words."
Art
"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words."
Inspirational
"Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice."
Faith
"Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with."
Work
"A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense."
Quality
"As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation."
Mother
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