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"I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family."
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"Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes."
"A daughter is a rainbow - a curve of light through scattered mist that lifts the spirit with her prismatic presence. Is a shadow - a reminder of something brilliant ducking out of sight, too easily drawn away. She is an aria, swelling within the concern chamber, an echo reverberating across a miniature sea. She is a secret, whispered, a hint of what we cannot know until it finds us. She is a sliver of her father, a shard of her mother. A daughter is a promise, kept."
"Here is the real domino theory - gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you."
"Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us."
"Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel...Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that."
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"The big compliment came from the beer drinkers who didn't know me. They wouldn't drink or move when I sang. If they had their glasses in mid-air, the glasses wouldn't come down."
"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."
"I never accepted the idea that I was all through. I guess no person who has once been a star can do that, ever."
"Nothing can beat the smell of dew and flowers and the odor that comes out of the earth when the sun goes down."
"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."
"Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races."
"You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you."
"Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence."
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