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" Awards are very important for a show like 'Rectify.' We're a small show; we're on a more obscure, harder-to-find channel that is very supportive of creative and singular vision. "
More
Vision
Important
" Chris Messina is awesome. He's amazing. "
He
Amazing
Chris
" Florida surfers learn how to be great on mediocre waves. It trains you, gives you endurance. "
Great
You
Learn
" Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity. "
Feeling
Act
Think
" I definitely gravitate towards things like vegetables, chicken, brown rice, but I don't deprive myself of anything. If I want a Sprinkles cupcake, I'm having a Sprinkles cupcake. But I'm not going to have one every day... you just have to have a sensible outlook on all of it. "
Myself
You
Every Day
" I feel like network didn't want me. I was doing all these pilots, and it never worked out. I was like, network doesn't like me. I'm going to go to cable where I'm appreciated. Then it was funny; I think I had to go to cable for network to appreciate me. "
Doing
Funny
Appreciate
" I grew up in a small Southern town, kind of a counterculture to a small Southern mentality. "
Kind
Small
Southern
" I have ice cream every week. Maybe twice. I live for ice cream, but not just any ice cream. It has to be locally sourced and usually somewhere I can walk to. "
Week
Ice
I Can
" I love nothing more than a good, rich, dark chocolate. It exhilarates. It satisfies. "
More
Love
Chocolate
" I love old Hollywood. I love our early film culture. "
Culture
Early
Film
" I love the Gulf of Mexico. "
I Love
Gulf
Mexico
" I'm a big fan of teachers. "
Teachers
Fan
Big Fan
" I'm a huge Katharine Hepburn fan. "
Hepburn
Fan
Huge
" I'm always trying to get in water. It is the life source. It's extremely easy to dehydrate working 14 hours a day and on my feet all the time. "
Feet
Day
Water
" It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook. "
Goals
Yourself
Purpose
" I worked for 10 years before 'Mad Men,' and what was great is that when people saw my work, I was just loving working, so it wasn't about anything else than that. "
Mad
Loving
Great
" My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it. "
Reading
People
Father
" My mother was a teacher. "
Mother
Teacher
" 'Rectify' has been beautiful and emotional but grueling. In a beautiful way, in the right way. "
Right
Beautiful
Been
" 'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies, as is 'Bringing Up Baby.' "
Baby
Movies
Philadelphia
" There is nothing like Southern hospitality. It's such a beautiful and genuine thing. "
Genuine
Beautiful
Nothing
" Travel is the only way to get empathy for other people's mindsets - to know their struggles and what they're drawn to. "
Empathy
Know
People
" Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can. "
You
Wave
Ride
" What happened with 'Mad Men' was I had just had my child, I was in a very literally and creatively fertile time in my life, and I wasn't leaving the house much. So when 'Mad Men' came along, I was so excited to leave the house. Like, I get to go do this beautiful thing. "
Life
Beautiful
House
" When I was a little girl, I watched old movies maybe shot at Paramount Studios, and the fact that every day I get to drive onto the lot and shoot a show that sometimes takes place in the '40s, it's very interesting. "
Interesting
Day
Place
" When I was twenty-six, I had my son. "
Son
Had
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