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" I grew up loving horses. I was relatively obsessed, starting with my rocking horse at age 2, all the way through my painting and drawing phase. "
Diane Lane
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" I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me. "
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" I'm not actively avoiding television. I just haven't found the right fit yet, as it were. And that's O.K. "
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" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "
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" I was very blessed always to find work; even when people thought I wasn't working, I was. "
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" I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to. "
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" I was the only kid in Manhattan I knew whose parents had a car. "
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" Are we asking terribly much of people to be curious and interested in the female experience from the female perspective? "
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" I like someone who's suffered from both sides. "
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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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" Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life. "
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" Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. "
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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 think, certainly, directing is a visual medium, but it's also about communication, and a lot of times, great directors are lacking in communication skills, which is rather shocking to discover that. "
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" To be honest, relationships with the opposite sex are the most challenging things I've done. You lose your compass, gravity changes, you don't know what's up or down, you're trying to figure it out. You're trying to make everybody happy, including yourself, and it's just... it's humbled me. "
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You
Me
" I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important. "
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" More yoga in the world is what we need. "
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" You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control. "
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" Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye. "
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" Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I'm like, 'Absolutely not! Have some integrity!'... But it's all about what makes you happy. "
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" There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.' "
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" I was really fortunate that I was not in 'successful movies' when I was younger, because whatever's given, there's an undertow that wants to take it away. "
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" I've always been a daddy's girl, and that's served me well in life; most of my directors have been male. "
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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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" You are the age of your spine. You are as flexible as your spine. That transfers to other areas of your life. "
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" I can tell you that, you know, when I went to my first movie premiere, it was my own movie, and I wore the best jeans I had and my favorite top. You know, I made sure my hair had some wave in it because I braided it the night before myself. "
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" I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale. "
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" I think that directing is the ultimate martyred task of filmmaking, that it has nobility to it. It takes three years to make a film, for the most part. I think it requires the attentiveness of a mother hen. "
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