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"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
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"To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason."
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"I would ask my dad what he did, and he'd say, 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes."
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"My dad? He died when I was 19, which is a bad time for your dad to die, because there's an awful lot of things you have to resolve with your parents past your teens if you've been a difficult teenager."
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"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover."
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"I'll never forget my father's response when I told him I wanted to be a lawyer. He said, 'If you do this, no man will ever want you.'"
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"I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle."
School
"I never turned down a mother role."
Mother
"Everybody said Peyton Place would be a mistake."
Mistake
"I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton."
Horses
"I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids."
Mother
"I was a bridesmaid at a wedding in one picture."
Wedding
"I acted three times with Fred MacMurray, three times with Martin and Lewis, four times with Rock Hudson. Three times with Glenn Ford."
Martin
"My father was a minister, so I was a P.K., a preacher's kid."
Father
"Sirk was every woman's dream of a director."
Dream
"I had had no art training."
Art
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