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"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street."

"The arrangements that couples make in order to maintain civility in the midst of their journey to divorce are often most elaborate when the professed top priority is to protect a child."

"No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time."

"All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

"A wise woman protects her kids. A wiser woman hangs out with police officers, retired FBI agents and private investigators."

"Fear is the mother of morality."

"He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly."
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"I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being."

"I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back."

"I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them."

"I think you can get the wrong impression about me from my work and think I'm always a bit down. I'm not that way at all. I'm fun-loving."

"Success always necessitates a degree of ruthlessness. Given the choice of friendship or success, I'd probably choose success."

"I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with."
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