"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."

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"My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college."

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"Big Brother is watching you."

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"Never give up your wife, husband, children and families. Believe that people can change. Give others opportunity to change."

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"Blessed is the womb that born you."

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"Until now, you have always lived your life alone. Every decision you've made has been for you and you alone. Now, and for the rest of your days, your life will be tied to another's. Every decision you make will be for both of you. What one does affects the other. You are a family, a team inseparable and unbreakable."

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"When we sat down on the couch again, you curled up against my side, like you used to when you were a tod."

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"I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex."

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"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."

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"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

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"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."

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"So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school."

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"Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know."

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