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"I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers."
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"I think a lot of the Mothers stuff that we recorded was written while we were on the road."
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"I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did."
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"Be kind to your mother-in-law, but pay for her board at some good hotel."
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"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."
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"I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done."
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"I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'"
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"I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day."
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"If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do."
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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."
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"I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people."
People

"I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think."
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"Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense."
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"I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends."
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"I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet."
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"Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest."
Life

"The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work."
Money
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