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" I'm not interested in worrying in if I make people uncomfortable. I'm interested in stopping women and children dying - that's what I'm interested in. "
Rose McGowan
Dying
Children
Women
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" I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life. "
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" I was up watching Meet Joe Black at four AM. I was hoping Brad Pitt would die, and he was still alive at seven forty in the morning! I actually felt sorry for once, for critics. "
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" I think gay marriage should be the national law. "
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" I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70! "
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" There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that. "
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" I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry. "
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Never
Word
" Women's rights are women's rights. One of the things that woke me up was equal pay. I started thinking about it: Who is the leader of women? Take me to your leader. And there were no leaders. "
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" Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four. "
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" They're definitely having their moment now because they know how to work the system, and I know I have to be that way, too, in order to succeed. But it's never been more frustrating for me. "
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Know
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" What's wrong with being angry? There's a lot of stuff to be angry about. If you're angry, anger covers pain. I don't know if you can truly deal with pain. "
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" I'm not attracted to dangerous men. I'm attracted, apparently, to height. One ex was 6'6; the one before was 6'4, then 6'3. I like freakishly tall people. "
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Height
Men
" My focus isn't Hollywood; my focus is using Hollywood as an example. Because what happens here does happen everywhere. It's just a really concentrated and tense version here. "
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Focus
Happen
Hollywood
" I came out of the womb waving red lipstick. "
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Red Lipstick
Red
Lipstick
" Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done. "
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Character
Someone
Nobody
" I realized a career is built as much on what you don't do as what you do do. "
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Much
Built
Career
" That's my takeaway from 'Scream' - I know I can fit in dog doors. You have to jimmy your body in a certain position and really hope you're not wearing something super fancy. "
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Body
Dog
Doors
" I've had, like, four long-term boyfriends. I tend to be in relationships for long periods of time. "
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Four
Relationships
Time
" I don't know what it's like to get to face down my attacker in court, but I do know that they lie. "
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Down
Face
Know
" I was with somebody else at the time, who I left - one, because I didn't really want to be with that person, and two, because I felt I'd had so much tragedy I needed to go off, go crazy, and maybe live on the outside for a while. "
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Time
Tragedy
Want
" I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.' "
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Because
Brave
Say
" What I do with my work is, I give women permission to be angry. Because that's our right. Because it's an emotion. Because it's been taken away from us. Because we've been silenced. "
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Away
Women
Angry
" Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange. "
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People
Fight
Fun
" I realized there are no lobbyists for critical thinking, and I realized there are no lobbyists for bravery. "
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Thinking
Critical Thinking
Bravery
" I never started out trying to be an actor. That was not my passion, this was not my thing. "
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Passion
Trying
Never
" I use language to pierce the brain. If I spoke like everybody else spoke, it would just dull everything. "
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Just
Brain
Everything
" People are like, 'Do you watch movies?' I'm like, 'I don't care.' I've ceased caring. I can't watch that construct anymore. "
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Movies
Care
" If I've got a script, you think I'll go to Hollywood to get money? I was bored with the people around me, so I just created my own movie, my own character. I'm the story of my own movie, and you know what? My movie is going to be better. "
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Story
People
" There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!' "
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Believe
Stand
Story
" I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do. "
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" I like people who are fit. I figure if I work out, you can at least return the favor. Would I go out with a meathead? No. "
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Return
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You