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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good."
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"And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett."
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"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."
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"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father."
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"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
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"I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father."
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"When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that, and so I moved out. I was determined to prove her wrong because she was so sure that I was going to go astray. And that's the juice that kept me going."
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"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before."
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"Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see."
Mother
"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."
Society
"No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons."
Brother
"Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?"
Memories
"Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people."
People
"Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground."
Beauty
"A dimple on the chin, the devil within."
Devil
"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal."
Life
"Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."
Anger
"Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters."
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