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"If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free."
Elderly
"Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys' author, but he's not at all."
Thought
"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."
Actor
"When I was at school I used to scream in trains, in those concertina things between the carriages. I used to try to be so good that sometimes I couldn't bear it any more."
School
"I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes."
Eye
"I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people - I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having."
Family
"People always like things that seem exotic."
People
"Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing."
Mother
"Keep smiling - it takes 10 years off!"
Years
"My mother was right: When you've got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust."
Mother
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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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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"No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that."
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"I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive."
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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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"It's my mother's engagement ring so I thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all - this was my way of keeping her close to it all."
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"My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength."
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"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."
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