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"I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother."
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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves."
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"My mother had lots and lots of children who didn't survive."
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"My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland."
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"My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store."
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"My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist."
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"But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk."
Artist
"I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity."
Gender
"If you come from a normal family, you immediately start playing the role of a boy, a girl a man or a woman, but I'm sure you'll agree with me that those are only roles, limited roles, at that."
Family
"I'm not involved with the female world."
World
"I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say."
People
"I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over."
People
"I have no prejudice against male or female."
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"I never grew up with a mother's hand - that's why I will forever be insecure, I think, in that primal way."
Mother
"So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company."
Money
"I have not lived so abundantly, full of family, full of continuity and history."
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