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My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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I was an omnivore at reading, so that everything I ever read contributed.
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I'm on Facebook anonymously. I wanted to see how people use it, what's going on there, but I personally didn't want to be on it because everybody in the world tries to get to you with scripts.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
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For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
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I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!
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I clerked for a judge, William Norris, on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals right after law school and then for Justice O'Connor the next year.
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I'm an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they're into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can't put a girl with hot lips and no wrinkles and say: 'That's the mother of a 14-year-old.'
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I am a fan of the Coen brothers. I'm not a fanatic. I'm a big admirer. They create unique worlds, and there is a real atmosphere to their films. Not everyone can get that. That's a massive part of their appeal: you can recognise them. Like all the great directors or artists, you know it when you see it.
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I could never, ever have an abortion.
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Playing a stadium is a big adrenaline boost for me and I dig it. It keeps me on my toes and makes me revamp everything I'm doing and not get stagnant with how I approach every show, which is something I like.
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My mum still wonders when I'll get a real job. These are the questions we discuss at our family dinners.
