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“Ben Cartwright was patterned after my father, who never saw 'Bonanza.' In that sense, my father will live for a long time.”

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I feel energetic when I'm working.

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The Cartwrights happen to be a family that other families want to be like.

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I think the hearing loss started with 'Bonanza.' Sometimes the director would put us in a box canyon and have us fire our guns.…

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If I were following trends, I would never have done 'Ringo.'

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A diversity of interests keep me very much alive.

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I left Canada in 1953 because I could find nothing very satisfying about delivering commercial pitches on camera. I felt the whole atmosphere of…

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In my youth I wanted to be a concert violinist.

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That's the joy of acting, to bring something to it. That's what makes acting exciting. Just saying lines is not terribly exciting.

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When I was 16, I discovered wildlife. My father took me to a place called Algonquin Park in Northern Ontario - it has some 1,600 lakes.

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I lived with my 'Bonanza' family for 14 years. On 'Battlestar,' we jumped right in and got to know each other later. That's just…

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Getting old doesn't frighten me. But I've got to take care of myself.

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People go to see Shakespeare plays over and over, not because the story is new, but because they want to see how a certain…

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My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives…

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“My father called twice and left a voicemail—who does that?”

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I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world.

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The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out…

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“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did…

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“This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for…

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My father was very encouraging.

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I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had…

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