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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."

"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""

"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."

"I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it."
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"My greatest debt will always be to the movie-going public of yesterday and today, without whose love and devotion I would have had no story to tell."

"Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent."

"I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille."

"Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy."

"I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford."

"After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried."
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