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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.
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I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
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I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.
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I am not going to put my daughter under any sort of stresses.
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All I know is that you can chop up all the onions and the whatevers you want and put it on top of caviar, but you still can't disguise the fact that you're eating fish eggs. Ugh!
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The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
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No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
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Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.
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As we all know, there is no underwear in space.
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Good anecdote--bad reality.
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I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.
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A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.
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My mother is an immensely powerful woman.
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There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.
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Meryl [Streep] plays the me-ish character. I love Meryl. She's totally wonderful.
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
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I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know.
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Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.
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I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
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You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.