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— Alfred Lord Tennyson"Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce."
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Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.
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