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" I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance. "

Claire Danes

Look

I Am

Care

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Claire Danes

Always

Myself

" I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift. "

" Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism. "

" It's OK to want to look and feel your best. It's OK to work at being attractive, whatever that means to you. And it's also OK to not expect to be defined by that. It's OK to be powerful in every way: to be big, to take up space. To breathe and thrive. "

" Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance. "

" I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so ever-changing. You can't get any traction. You can't build on a system. Whereas, somebody who has Asperger's, which is certainly a much more forgiving expression of autism, can create models for coping and build on them over time. "

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" I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously. "

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