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" I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire. "

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" I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all. "

" I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always. "

" Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South. "

" I've done some of my best work in films that fell right through the cracks, so I try to not make career moves but to build a body of work. "

" When I was a little kid, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about what I'd wish for if a magic fairy gave me three wishes. First, I wanted to be loved. Then, I wanted to be beautiful. And, finally, I'd wish for a million more wishes. "

" I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role. "

" There's nothing like not washing your teeth or washing your face or brushing your teeth in the morning. "

" There is a long tradition of pungent living in the South. It was wonderful to have that imprinted on me so early in life. I already had my core when I left my little town in Texas. "

" I got an automatic breadmaker. It's the greatest! I get more points for that. You computerize in the results you want, and it's no fail. I'm a modern homemaker. "

" I am a woman of simple tastes. "

" For me, life is a bowl of cherries. "

" Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost. "

" There are classic horror films that, if you are a human being in this world, you have to have seen. They've become a part of our culture. "

" Nature is really big and loud the farther south you get. "

" If I hadn't left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn't have met my husband and I wouldn't have had the children that I've had. Life is interesting like that. "

" You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them. "

" Fame sweeps you away. I had to go home every six months to remember who I am. "

" There are stories you can tell on TV that can't be told in movies anymore. "

" I'm a fool for a brilliant filmmaker. And for someone who wants to try new things. "

" New York gets under your skin, and I think once you've fallen in love with New York, you take that with you. I love New York. "

" I connect with just plain old everyday people. Human behavior fascinates me, the people who are the nuts and bolts of this country who help hold up the world. "

" I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as interesting, and they're humans. They have the same realm of emotions that we all have. But I'm just more drawn to the Southern character and the different types, and Southern literature is so lyrical and so wonderful. "

" Hollywood's fickle. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way. And it's always going to be somebody new and exciting comes along. That's just the way it works, and it will always work that way. And I think that if you give it everything to the exclusion of your own real life and family, you've sold yourself down the river. "

" Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating. "

" My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more. "

" I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile. "

" Nothing in life prepared me for the way I felt about being a mother. Until then, I sort of felt like a blank sheet of paper. I was always trying to second-guess myself, to be what others wanted me to be. "

" We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been. "

" I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy. "