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" In my house, you got in trouble if you didn't speak up. My mom would be furious at us if we went to school and behaved nicely if someone treated us badly. If we got in trouble because we had yelled at them or told them that they were wrong, my mother would be like, 'Good job.' "

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" My 15-year-old threw open the door the other day to my room and screamed, ''Freaks and Geeks' only has one season? Can they make another one?' And I tried to explain to her that it happened a long time ago. She didn't understand that because it felt very relevant to her. "

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Door

Time

Day

" When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well. "

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Carry

" A movie is a movie is a movie. But it has to have an adjective in front of it if it's not a white guy's movie. "

" I can't change the past. It made me what I am. "

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" Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment. "

" If we're not shooting, if we're not filming, if you're not standing on the soundstage, turn off your phone and go live your life. "

" There are stories to be told that are still untold and characters to be portrayed that haven't been portrayed correctly. So there's work to be done. "

" No one's body is up for comment. No matter how small, how curvy, how round, how flat. If you love you, then I love you. "

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I Love You

You

" I've been a writer since I was a kid. I've been a writer since I was, you know, dictating stories into a tape deck and trying to get my mom to type them up - when I was really, really little. "

" There's always women of many different races on my shows, and there are always women who look many different ways, but there is still a size thing in this industry. It's hard. I mean to have to say, 'I want a larger woman to be an actor on my shows.' Or, 'Find me a larger woman,' is almost insulting to me. "

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Look

Say

" I actually really love Twitter - I used to feel angry and insulted when people criticised me or the shows, but now I don't take it too seriously. What I do love is that there's this great direct line to fans. "

" I don't ever approach anything from the issue first, so I can't tell you that I've thought about tackling universal health care. I'd have to have some great story I'd want to tell, and then universal health care would become part of the way to tell that story. "

" I've never personally had to use a Planned Parenthood. But I have many friends who have and do and did, and I think it's important that that access be there for everyone. "

" A hashtag is not a movement. "

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Movement

" The beauty of being a feminist is that you get to be whatever you want. And that's the point. "

" Work doesn't work without play. "

" There have to be practical steps. There's no point in holding out for a magic door because there are no magic doors. You can dream your life away or actually do what you dream of doing. That's the most valuable advice I can give. "

" I'm one of those people, since I was 5, I could tell you I was going to have kids. I could tell you I was going to have three. I could tell you they were going to be girls. But I have never wanted to get married. I never played bride. I was never interested. I don't know what it is; I never wanted to get married. "

" Getting on a plane and discovering that your seat belt won't fit around you was a moment of extreme horror. It was very hard to ignore. "

" I don't know why people don't feel like being positive is much more powerful than being negative. "

" The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true. "

" After I lost weight, I discovered that people found me valuable. Worthy of conversation. A person one could look at. A person one could compliment. A person one could admire. A person. "

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Lost

People

" I'm just obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' especially Arya Stark. And I love 'Orange is the New Black,' although I just want to inhale that all at once. I keep trying to stretch it out, but it's so hard. "

" Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance. "

" I'd split up with a boyfriend and gone to Vermont to stare at my navel, and then 9/11 happened, and I spent days being scared of what was happening in the world. So I made a list of all the things I wanted to do, and at the top was adopt a baby. Nine months and two days later, I brought my daughter home. "

" Most people, I think, have accepted that it's not up to them to control other people's choices, except, it seems, when it comes to Washington, D.C., where everyone has an opinion about people's uteruses. "

" People expect me to be, first and foremost, a storyteller. I lead by telling stories. "

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First

People

" I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are. "

" There's racist casting, and there is normal casting. Normal casting, to me, is a process that strives for representation and, in many cases, strives to simply portray the world as it actually is instead of as falsely non-inclusive. And sadly, sometimes that involves removing the whitewash that exists on history. "

" Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are. "

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Ideas

Women