The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.


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In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ...
ERICH HOEBER
They've got an edit provision on there for the sake of editing when things are not accurate. I presu...
ERICH MISCHE
I'm not sure on the legal side of things, I'm not well versed in that, but I'd like to see something...
ERICH DUMBECK
I wrote 'Yellow Submarine' for the Beatles. I wrote the screenplay for 'The Games,' ...
ERICH SEGAL
There are 83 species of whales and dolphins (and porpoises) we know almost nothing about.
ERICH HOYT
I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Mar...
ERICH BERGEN
But nothing like what GM and Ford are going through. Long-term, I think Chrysler's prospects look in...
ERICH MERKLE
It's a little bit of puffery, to offset the bad news that's been out there the last three or four mo...
ERICH MERKLE
The Escalade is going to be pretty tough to beat. You're competing on performance. The real killer f...
ERICH MERKLE
It certainly is a move in the right direction. (But) I still don't see it as a real competitor with ...
ERICH MERKLE
They've packaged it just slightly different enough so that it's more of a utility vehicle -- a small...
ERICH MERKLE
I'm not sure they can move away from Ford fast enough.
ERICH MERKLE
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
ERICH SEGAL
[They] glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival.
ERICH SEGAL
Someone has to make sure Delphi's parts are not interrupted.
ERICH MERKLE
This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
ERICH SEGAL
When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johns...
ERICH LEINSDORF
It's the 800-pound gorilla. No one seems able to stop them.
ERICH MERKLE
What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died?
ERICH SEGAL
There's a lot of things GM and Ford are still grappling with if they're going to adapt to these nich...
ERICH MERKLE
They understand that there's some shortcomings. It says they're addressing them.
ERICH MERKLE
This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.
ERICH SEGAL
Min­nie Four-Eyes.
ERICH SEGAL
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ERICH SEGAL
Voljeti ne znači vječito ponavljati da ti je žao
ERICH SEGAL
I didn't know you were re­lated to Se­wall Boat House too,' she said.

'Yeah. I come fro...
ERICH SEGAL
I began to think about God. I mean, the notion of a Supreme Being existing somewhere began to creep ...
ERICH SEGAL
Fue entonces cuando la terrorífica verdad empezó a imponèrseme
-¡Jenny, estamos legalmente...
ERICH SEGAL