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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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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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If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.
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And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.
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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 just needed to leave Hollywood.
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I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.
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I don't like being alone. I haven't been alone since I got a boyfriend.
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From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.
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I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.
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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've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.
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What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.
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I wish I had been more prepared, both for success and for failure, when I was younger.