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My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery – which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove. – Poppy Z. Brite

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My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called New Faces of 1937. My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties. – Albert Brooks

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Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. Hes the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that. – Christopher Walken

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Being an only child, I didnt have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London. – Tom Hardy

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