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I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
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John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
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I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.
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Originally I considered myself a singer.
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Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.
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I think you can be mature without being grown-up. You can also be grown-up without being mentally mature. One of them is forced, while the other one is your choice.
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When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.
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I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
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The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.
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Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.
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I have a very independent spirit.
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Sometimes when people have kids young, they're not ready.
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I grew up in a home filled with music and had an early appreciation of jazz since my dad was a jazz musician. Beginning at around age three I started singing with his band and jazz music has continued to be one of my three passions along with acting and writing. I like to say jazz music is my musical equivalent of comfort food. It's always where I go back to when I want to feel grounded.
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And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.
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I felt all the things that other teenagers felt. I was insecure in lots of ways, over-confident in others. I was very emotional. Excitable.
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Usually the kids are portrayed as very one-dimensional. Like these mindless animals that just have three things on their minds: getting laid, getting drunk, and driving real fast over Mulholland Drive.
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I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.
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When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
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In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.
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The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.
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People feel like they grew up with me.
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I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
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It's the universal feeling that we all are alone - that we're all different. I think the movie's one resounding theme is that everybody feels the same, and we're all alone together. Some people come up to me on the street and thank me for helping them get through their teen years.
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I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
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