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" A lot of my snacks are healthy. I love things like hummus, carrots, and celery, but I will never give up potato chips. "
Love
Never
Never Give Up
" At this point, I can almost never see myself saying no to a con or a 'Charmed' reunion, because it's so important to so many people I've already met personally. "
I Can
Myself
People
" Beets just aren't my thing. I can't get into them. "
Get
Thing
Just
" Before you have a baby, friends tell you 'sleep now,' and you laugh because you don't think that all those stories could be true. But they are. "
Sleep
You
Baby
" Both my husband and I wanted a boy. I wasn't sure what I'd do with a daughter. What if she asked for a Barbie? I would have been like, 'Honey, we don't support Barbie because she isn't an accurate depiction of a woman's body.' "
Husband
Body
Daughter
" Everyone gives 'Picket Fences' credit for being so willing to delve into issues that now would be no big deal. But it was then. It was ahead of its time. "
Big
Credit
Everyone
" Everyone wants to be a writer, director, producer. I don't have the imagination for that, but, hopefully, I can continue to act. "
Everyone
Imagination
I Can
" Felicity Huffman is just flawless; she's above and beyond TV and movies and this Earth. "
Movies
Above
Beyond
" Growing up in any sort of spotlight is difficult. Everything is magnified. "
Up
Growing Up
Sort
" I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived. "
Grand Canyon
Canyon
Me
" I have no interest in a guy who doesn't know the right end of a screwdriver. "
Right
Who
Know
" I'm definitely a sushi person. I know I can eat a lot and still be fairly healthy. "
Sushi
Person
Know
" In between my first and second child, Pilates helped my body a lot. "
Pilates
First
Child
" In this industry there's this ridiculous connotation with women shows that's it's got to be difficult, and it's not true. "
Difficult
Women
True
" I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea. "
Internet
Husband
Enthusiasm
" I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed. "
Dark
Parenting
Baby
" It's funny, because even though on a drama like 'Picket Fences' those long monologues would stress me out, doing special effects where there's a green screen and there's nobody there to to react to and you have to recite all this dialogue, it's so much more difficult. "
Long
Green
Funny
" I was a vegetarian through many of my teen years and easily revert back to that occasionally, but my immune system is usually happier with a bit of real meat. "
Back
Real
Vegetarian
" I was the product of very young parents, and they had wild ways. My mother was in a punk band. Rebelling would have been learning to play piano. "
Play
Band
Parents
" I was worried - I wasn't sure I had the maternal instinct. But the minute my son came out, he was my favorite person on earth. I was crazily in tune with him, and I knew we were going to be fine. "
Person
Son
Earth
" Life as an only child can be a bit lonely, and when I had Finley, I decided that if I could give him a big family, I wanted to as much as possible. "
Lonely
Family
Possible
" My husband is very supportive - he wants me to work but understands I also want to be with the kids. "
Want
He
Husband
" My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name. "
Mother
People
Angry
" Orca family members belong together at home in the ocean, not isolated in tiny tanks at SeaWorld. If you believe that a mother should never have to know the pain of having her child torn away from her, boycott SeaWorld. "
Family
Child
Ocean
" Personally, I have nothing to fall back on, and that creates a weird ambition that you have to be good at acting because you can't be good at anything else. I wish I had gone for my degree - that acting wasn't this be-all-and-end-all. "
Ambition
Fall
Wish
" There are tons of people I'd like to freeze for all of eternity, but we won't go into that! "
People
Like
Freeze
" The WB never treated us well, so we didn't expect a lot of farewell wishes and flowers or cards. "
Wishes
Flowers
Never
" To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down. "
Smoke
Life
Husband
" To travel America and see everything it has to offer, with my best friend, sounds like the perfect road trip. "
Friend
Travel
Best
" TV's a wonderful medium: this intimate way of observing how a successful family operates and deals with each other. "
Way
Wonderful
Family
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