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" If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have. "
Diane Lane
Career
I Can
Control
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" You really can't take a cat and turn it into a dog, or try and get lemons off an apple tree, or what have you. "
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" I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better. "
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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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" The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in 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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" 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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" Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth. "
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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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