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" I started in Shakespeare. I'm classically trained, which, how hilarious is that? Then one night, I saw Second City and thought, 'Wow, that's what I want to do.' But I never thought it would morph into screenplay writing. "

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" I have had the same person show up in a few cities with flowers. A lovely gentleman who gave me a picture of himself. I came home, gave it to Ian, and said, 'If I go missing, here's the guy.' "

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" I did go through a bit of a dark time during the years I was trying to be a mom. But I'm basically a very positive person. "

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" I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love. "

" I don't work that much because I am selective. "

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" The popular girls let me hang out with them because I was funny. They told me that. 'You're not popular, but you're funny.' Now all my friends are funny. "

" I think the goal is parity: I try to be pro-woman without being anti-man, and I hope and wish that men could do the same in that when they look at the screenplay, they say, 'Wait, wait, wait - is my daughter represented here, is my wife represented here? Is my sister represented?' "

" I have found that every family has a strange remedy for any situation - from 'Use Fantastic to get the scuff off your patent leather shoes!' to 'Soak an aspirin in a glass of water to get rid of a migraine.' "

" Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it. "

" I never card out a movie. You know how people will outline or card? I don't do that. I tend to start with an idea and go. "

" My husband is an only child of only child parents. "

" You're never too fat for a new purse. "

" There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing. "

" I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. "

" We absolutely have to support our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters. We just must. It's not fair that they don't get to live an authentic life. "

" It was a sad process for me to become a mom, and a long process. I felt so embarrassed that I couldn't have a biological child. "

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" I've had designers say to my face, 'Oh, I want to dress you now that you're skinny.' And that's really rude. "

" When I wanted to go away to college in Toronto, my dad said, 'You can't go.' When I got to Toronto, I bought a couch, and my dad cried for the whole weekend because, as my mum told me, 'Now you have furniture; he knows you are never coming back.' "

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" I love romance. I think our skin clears up and we're nicer when you are in love. "

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" I have always written from a personal place. "

" Our daughter was not damaged or hurt in any way. She was simply relinquished to foster care by two people who were not ready to be parents. I admire them for giving her the chance for a better life. And I am grateful they gave my husband and me the opportunity to be parents. "

" On November 15th, 2008, in over 300 cities, 4,000 children were adopted in one day. "

" We were so unprepared that when my husband took off to get groceries, and we'd adopted a 3-year-old, he came back with baby formula, a steak and a teething ring. We had no idea what we were doing. But you learn. There's no way to fully prepare. Just eyes wide open - jump. "

" I think it's probably a universal experience that all parents think they're not hovering, but perhaps we all are. "

" My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds. "

" America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us. "

" I have no idea how to use social media for anything other than forwarding a good fart joke. "

" If you create a fun environment, people will take liberties and grow and expand. And then you'll get your final screenplay in my favorite style, which is 'tossed away' - as if the actor just thought of it. "

" I grew up looking for myself onscreen and never could find myself. And I believe that I am supposed to be Toula to show people that it's O.K. to be different. "

" I believe that if I come home from a stressful day on the set, I just have to leave it there. "

" What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire. "