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"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."
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"I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people."
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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
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"The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue."
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"My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material."
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"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."
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"My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences."
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"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."
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"Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."
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"I loved it, it's such fun. I like that people are seeing it and then talking about it. Like when I took my son and his friends to see Napoleon Dynamite last year, we spent the next six weeks trying to explain it."
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"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."
Training
"But no man has a monopoly of conscience."
Conscience
"For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town."
Spring
"It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly."
Rank
"I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child."
Home
"But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term."
Books
"For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures."
Marriage
"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership."
Marriage
"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."
Education
"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."
Life
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