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All Quotes by author - Carly Chaikin

" A jigsaw puzzle is my form of meditation. In New York, I glued all of the ones I did together and hung them up on the wall. "

" All of the coding and hacking stuff that we do and I talk about, I always have them explain what it means so I know what I'm saying. "

" All the art that's in my house is my own, which is nice because I never have to worry about buying it. "

" At restaurants, I always get a kids' menu and color or draw on the tablecloth. "

" I can make eggs. I can do a quesadilla. But the last thing I want to do when I come home is cook and clean up dishes. I'm not that domestic a girl. "

" I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning. "

" I have Bob Dylan lyrics on my ribs. I'm a diehard Dylan fan, and my dad and I joke that if I ever met him, I'd have him sign his name right under my tattoo and then I'd run to the parlor to get his signature tattooed. "

" I love games. When I first saw 'Celebrity Family Feud,' I literally, in all caps, emailed my team and was like, 'Why am I not on this?' "

" I love playing a smart person and not that blonde deadpan. "

" I'm such a loser; I don't really go out. None of my friends are really actors, so in that regard, I still have all the same friends and do all the same things. "

" I never have had blonde hair. I have never had straight hair. I never wear pink clothes or spray tan and I never wore heels to school. "

" I never leave my computer open. That becomes a big OCD thing. If I see people leaving their laptops open, I always close them. "

" I really knew with every fiber of my being that acting was - for lack of a better word - my calling. "

" I really love 'America's Next Top Model.' I'm always tweeting about it, and people are like, 'You need to get a life!' "

" I started painting at 17; I took a class at Brentwood Art Center. I thought about art school - but I'm just so not a school person. "

" I've been so lucky to be able to go into such different worlds from my own, and that's what makes my job so fun. I just want to continue doing that. "

" I've done figure drawing classes or whatever. "

" 'Mean Girls' is literally one of my favorite movies. It's just such a classic. Everybody has seen it, and me and my friends quote it all the time. "

" One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend. "

" One of the reasons why I love acting is my obsession with human emotion and faces and expressions - no surprise, then, that I usually end up painting faces. But I haven't done a self-portrait. I'd be too scared. "

" People do notice me - I'm always so surprised. When I dyed my hair blond for 'Suburgatory,' people would still recognize me from 'The Last Song,' when I had red hair, and I didn't even recognize myself. "

" Playing a woman in the tech world never crossed my mind as a thing until people started bringing it up all time. People act like it's unicorns speaking English all of a sudden. "

" So many of my paintings, people would be like, 'What more do you have to do?' But the smallest little things make all of the difference. "

" Technology and communicating with people online or through a phone or through social media - it's a false sense of intimacy and connection. "

" What did we do before we had cell phones and we just had to sit there and be vulnerable? "

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