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"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her."
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"I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her."

"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."

"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."

"I just cleared the slate and thought of her as a mother and went from there."
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"I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream."

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