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		Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brit Marling
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patrick Ness
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kat Dennings
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I see the Calvin Klein girl as strong, fun, and confident.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Hanneli Mustaparta
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aaron Carter
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rani Mukerji
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Olivia Hussey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Victoria Justice
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Rachel Zoe
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				J. K. Simmons
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Patrick Ness
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Paloma Faith
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lana Turner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Maggie Q
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I'm terrified of having a little girl. Girls are more evil than boys.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lara Stone
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				AJ McLean
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Samira Wiley
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Women need opportunity and encouragement. If a girl can climb mountains, she can do anything positive within her field of work.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
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		As a young girl, I plowed the fields of our family farm. I worked construction with my dad. To save for college, I worked the morning biscuit line at Hardees.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joni Ernst
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I still havent got over the fact that I wont be the only person seeing the film. Im used to watching home videos of when I was little, singing Barbie Girl and stuff, and nobody sees them except the family. Now, there will be loads of people going to see The Golden Compass. At least, we hope they will.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Dakota Blue Richards
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Some people think I can only do fancy; I don't know why. I'm a pretty easy person, really. Low maintenance. I get on with things, and I'm comfortable anywhere.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Donna Air
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joan Cusack
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It's been a real struggle for us, ... And the only way you get out of it is to fight our way out of it.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Gibbs
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Is there anything worse than being called the 'It Girl?' By definition, there will be a new one in two weeks.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Brit Marling