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"My mother insisted that I have a normal upbringing."
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"Madlen came to sit beside her on the bed. "Lady Queen," she said with her own particular brand of rough gentleness. "It is not the job of the child to protect her mother. It's the mother's job to protect the child. By allowing your mother to protect you, you gave her a gift. Do you understand me?"
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"She was a genius, my mother."
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"I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping."
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"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
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"The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis."
People
"I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else."
Waiting
"I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography."
Dance
"I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people."
Life
"I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It's great. If you start somebody's career, it's so exciting."
People
"I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey."
Friendship
"To walk across the street is a risk."
Risk
"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business."
Business
"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying."
Mother
"I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant."
Office
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