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"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"
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"My father was often angry when I was most like him."
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"My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say."
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"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone."
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"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills."
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"I'm one of those regular weird people."
People
"I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought."
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"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house."
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"You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things."
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"Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers."
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"Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got."
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"I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."
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"Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous."
People
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