Tea Leoni Quotes
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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All the energy, all the pain, sweat and tears that go into it, the amount I had to put in to get me to where I had to play, it was more taxing on me physically and mentally than it was good for me.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
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The Internet really offered a space for me to thrive.
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
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My whole family is really close. I'm lucky for that.
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Shopping turns me off.
