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" I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would be so much easier!' "
Taylor Schilling
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" If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating. "
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" I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me. "
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" I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy. "
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" I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, 'What's the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting?' It didn't make sense to me anymore. It's not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval. "
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" I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it. "
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" I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that. "
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" I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length. "
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" I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all. "
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" I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world. "
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" I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me. "
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" As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with. "
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" I tried to hostess... but they fired me after four days because I couldn't figure out how seating plans worked. "
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Because
" Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar. "
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Bad
Myself
Sugar
" Coffee makes me go crazy. "
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" I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up. "
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College
Body
" So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?' "
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" Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with. "
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" I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing. "
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" I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it. "
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" For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts with that. "
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" I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better. "
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" On a film set, for me, there's so much more time to process what's going on than there is on a television set. There's more wiggle room to try things and fail and try again and get to the heart of what's going on in the scene, which is really fun for me. It's what I like to do. "
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" My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture. "
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" Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think. "
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" I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating. "
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" I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director. "
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" I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff. "
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Time
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" I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles. "
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" I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks. "
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