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" It's been a great privilege to see how interwoven nations are and how incredibly complex these relationships are. It's so elaborate. "
Claire Danes
Relationships
Great
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" Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted. "
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" If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to compartmentalize work from my life. I'm not terribly method. "
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" Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found. "
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" I know, it's true. I've played these tortured teenagers. I can't wait to shed that image. "
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" Fame doesn't end loneliness. "
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" I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form. "
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" I have plenty of vanity in my life. I want to look pretty in the world. But it can be this bottomless pit. "
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" Maybe philosophy - I love talking about ideas. Or maybe art history. I was thinking about psychology, then I got really afraid because everybody says it's terribly boring. "
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" You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of. "
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" I just want to be a sane person. I wanna be a person who has a life and who acts. "
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" I have this home in New York, I have a long-term relationship with my boyfriend, who's from Australia, and I had this business that I had maintain. Even though I wasn't actively shooting, there's a lot of peripheral work. "
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" College was just so essential for my sense of self and my development. "
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" I eat in moderation and try not to worry about it. "
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" My parents never condescended to me. As a child, I always sat at the head of our dinner table. I was always given a lot of responsibility. "
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Parents
" My goal is always to do something that feels just beyond my reach, and 'Homeland' continues to do that. Every season, they find new ways to scare me. The show is like a diamond that fell from the sky. I'll always feel slightly bludgeoned by it, but in the best way possible. "
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Best
Sky
" Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism. "
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" I would not say that secret-keeping is one of my finer skills, actually. "
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" I wouldn't say that I'm a naturally political beast. "
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Say
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" I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique. "
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Way
Know
" Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed. "
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Two
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" Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely. "
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" I care about being formally physically attractive in my life, and I think that I am quite vain about my performance. I'm just not vain about how I look while I give the performance. "
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" So much of my job is about finding another job, and that's really boring. "
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" It's a very young mistake to assume that life is very serious. I get the joke now. "
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" I've never been interested or particularly good at censoring my experience. "
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" I don't want to be an actress. I want to be doing good work that is well written and has good people in it. "
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" I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When I first started at Yale, the plan was to do a movie each summer. "
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" I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it. "
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