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We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.
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All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.
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I've been so lucky to work with some great, great writers: Tony Kushner and Yasmina Reza.
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Doing theater is such a specifically energetic and almost acrobatic work.
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I do pottery.
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My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.
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My work often takes me away from my family for long periods of time, so I've really come to appreciate the time I do spend with them.
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If you think someone committed a crime, you should turn them in to whomever you perceive authority to be.
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Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
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I've had an amazing career and amazing blessings. But I'm an everyday person, and I have lived an everyday life, and I drive an everyday car.
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The important thing is that when you correct your children, they see what they've done wrong and why you're upset.
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It's hard to balance work and family.
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Isn't it nice not to have to compartmentalize yourself?
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As a mother, I love the Leapster handheld because it really delivers on educating children while they play. My daughter enjoys it because it's fun and touches on all of the activities she is interested in - videos, books and art.
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I just never wanted to be too much in the background. I always wanted to be a part of things.
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They tell us in magazines and in ads, 'Oh, you should look like this, you should wear this, you should look like this movie star, or you're nothing.' And so we're all totally unsatisfied.
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Shakespeare set a lot of his dramas in a historical perspective or war perspective, or he would study what was going on at that time.
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I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.
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The only thing that seemed to me I could do in such a way that no one else could was acting. I thought, I can be a doctor, but there's going to be someone else who is just as good or better. I can be a lawyer, which I still sometimes think I would love to be, but I think there's someone who can do it just as good or better.
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I think in terms of family, in terms of relationships, in terms of work, competition to be the favorite, to be the noticed, to be the one - I don't know if it exists for all personalities, but I know for sure it did with me.
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You've got to understand what makes the character human.
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I was always an exhibitionist. I liked it when everyone laughed. But I didn't do plays in high school. I was too nervous.
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It's important that kids learn, but I really don't like all the testing, testing, testing.
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In the theater, it's about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
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