"On acting to daughter Isabella Rossellini: Keep it simple. Make a blank face and the music and the story will fill it in."
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"You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' said Coraline."
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"Welfare mothers make better lovers."
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"My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory."
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"Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings."
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"The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her."
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"I embrace the criticism, because ultimately (it means) the masses have seen it [my movie]. I embrace it for my father's story, for my mother's story, for my auntie, for my grandmother, who all got their teeth knocked out so I could be [where I am]."
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"A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength."
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"Deprivation is the mother of poetry."
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"Everything my mother and father did was designed to put me where I am."
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"The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."
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"Behold, I have reached the peak of the mountain and my spirit has taken flight in the heavens of freedom and liberation. I have gone far, far away, O children of my mother; the hills beyond the mists are now hidden from my view, the last traces of the valleys have been flooded by the ocean of serenity, and the paths and trails have been erased by the hand of oblivion. The roar of ocean waves has faded. I no longer hear anything but the anthem of eternity, which harmonizes with the spirit."
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"My mother always taught us that if people don't agree with you, the important thing is to listen to them. But if you've listened to them carefully and you still think that you're right, then you must have the courage of your convictions."
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"This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother."
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"I shall never forget what I saw at the Museum of Modern Art: in a spotless schoolroom, fifty little girls painting away at tables covered with brushes, pots, tubes, bowls, staring into space and sticking out their tongues like the clever animals that ring a bell, tongues lolling and eyes vague. Teachers supervise these young creators of abstract art and slap their wrists if what they paint represents something and dangerously inclines toward realism. The mothers - still at the Picasso stage - are not admitted."
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"All Americans believe that they are born fishermen. For a man to admit a distaste for fishing would be like denouncing mother-love or hating moonlight."
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"Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke."
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"He's not responsible for what he's doing, cause his mother made him what he is."
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"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
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"Invention is the mother of necessities."
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