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" Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective? "
Diane Lane
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People
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" So now I'm left with cigarettes, and I'm trying to scrape that off my shoe and then I'll be done. "
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" Independent films have a very different cachet than success films. "
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" All the lessons are in nature. You look at the way rocks are formed - the wind and the water hitting them, shaping them, making them what they are. Things take time, you know? "
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" I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world. "
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" Love is saying you're sorry. It's the opposite of those cherub posters that say, 'Love is never having to say you're sorry.' Wrong! Love is three sorrys a day. If you haven't met that quota, something's wrong. "
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" I was so much more insecure at 19. Thank God. It would be really cruel if there were a 19-year-old walking around with my confidence. "
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" Some people fascinate me. They really worship at the altar of their careers, you know? And it's terrifying. It's sort of like setting a table and waiting for someone to come along and whoosh - push all the plates onto the floor. "
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" Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. "
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" More yoga in the world is what we need. "
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" I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter. "
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" I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship. "
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