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"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."

"A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept."

"I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe."
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"If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the money will come."

"I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to take when you failed."

"Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last."

"When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh."

"We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument."

"I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion."
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