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Linda Lavin

"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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"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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Asa Don Brown

"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."

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Asa Don Brown

"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."

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Asa Don Brown

"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."

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Asa Don Brown

"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."

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Asa Don Brown

"I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails. But I have two sisters and a mother, and we're Latin, so we gossip."

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Asa Don Brown

"The third lesson and tip actually comes from two of my favorite political philosophers: Mao Tse-tung and Mother Theresa - not often coupled with each other, but the two people I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point which is 'you're going to make choices; you're going to challenge; you're going to say why not; you're going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before."

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Asa Don Brown

"I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before."

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Asa Don Brown

"Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly."

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Asa Don Brown

"My father and mother - I figured if I could make them laugh, they'd stop fighting. I stole all their material."

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Asa Don Brown

"I recently saw the movie about Ray Charles, and there's a scene where he falls down and the mother doesn't help him. She says, I don't want anyone to treat you like a cripple. I've fallen down before, and Molly will say, get up and just go."

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Linda Lavin
"So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers."

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Linda Lavin
"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her."

Mother

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Linda Lavin
"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."

Mother

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Linda Lavin
"Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking."

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Linda Lavin
"The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America."

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Linda Lavin
"It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved."

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Linda Lavin
"Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment."

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Linda Lavin
"Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was."

Life

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Linda Lavin
"We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about."

People

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Linda Lavin
"The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself."

Power

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