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"I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me."
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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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"She was a genius, my mother."
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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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"Living in America, I became aware of many issues and went through a period of politicization."
America
"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible."
Life
"I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much."
Celebrity
"I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity."
Love
"Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in."
Happiness
"It takes me time to realize things; I'm a speedy person but a slow thinker."
Time
"As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were."
Politics
"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
Film
"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
Attention
"I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting."
Acting
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