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"My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"The longest tenured First LOVE and Greatest TEACHER, in-fact life long, is none the other, but Mother."
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"People who lost their mother should be careful about committing crime, because probably no one else is praying to save you."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife."
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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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"I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school."
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"Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating."
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"I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late."
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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
Growing up
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
Country
"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
Service
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
Acting
"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."
Music
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
Time
"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
Work
"If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it."
Work
"I don't listen to recordings of my songs. I don't avoid it, I just don't go out of my way to do it."
Music
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
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