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" Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. "
Acceptance
Tolerance
Forgiveness
" Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings. "
Hell
Nothing
Human
" All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment. "
Rather
Anger
Life
" At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. "
More
Death
Age
" Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional. "
Words
Easy
Language
" Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set. "
Mind
Myself
Box
" Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes. "
Long
Survive
You
" For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home. "
Over
Family
Home
" I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden. "
Family
Away
Children
" I love being a mother. I loved being a daughter, a sister, a wife. I love being a woman with men. I love having given birth. "
Love
Daughter
Mother
" I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I'd always be - it's that kind of fly on the wall approach to photography, though. I don't engage the subject. I like to sneak around, skulk about in the dark. "
Photography
Kind
Camera
" I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy. "
Happy
Dark
Time
" I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there. "
Done
Nothing
Work
" I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person. "
Been
Sunny
Never
" One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story. "
Yourself
Own
Love
" Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. "
Blessing
Because
Time
" Sometimes parts just come along when it's the perfect time for you to do them. "
Sometimes
Along
Time
" So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge, empty, black hole. Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. "
Time
Space
I Am
" Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise. "
You
Successful
Talk
" The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children. "
Children
Mother
Motherhood
" The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake. "
Place
Water
Only
" There are no explanations, there are no answers. "
Answers
Explanations
" There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can. "
Myth
You
Everything
" This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. "
Selfishness
Me
Virtue
" To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership. "
Been
Man
Mind
" When I am home for like a two-year stretch, I get antsy, because I want to work. "
Home
I Am
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