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" I really think if you're trying to look good, do something athletic. I have a little mini tramp, and sometimes I'll just try to jump for 20 minutes. It gets your blood circulating, and that always looks really pretty. "

Lauren Graham

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" All TV shows are basically part of the same storyline. "

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" None of my characters have really had jobs. "

" Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single! "

" Sometimes I'll think, 'That was a really nice day. I ate well, I exercised, I called some friends, wasn't working too hard,' but I rarely have one of those. "

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Lauren Graham

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" Honestly, I was such a tomboy as a kid. People were taking from their mothers' closets - I was taking from my dad's closet. It was the '80s, so it wasn't terrible, but I was wearing my dad's dress shirts over jeans from the Gap. "

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" Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it! "

Lauren Graham

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