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" Being articulate, my parents could make anything sound reasonable. "

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Black-And-White

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" I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't. "

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" I think it's always interesting how music means different things to different people, and people who overthink it are looking to in some ways show off with music, versus people who just respond to a song and decide to sing it. "

" I wouldn't say 'Frances Ha' is autobiographical, but it's definitely very personal. "

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" When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. "