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" Junior and senior high school years were not a good time. "

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" I like horseback riding. I like to hike. I play guitar and sing. "

" Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe. "

" I think giving up people is a difficult thing. "

" 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. "

" There are fewer roles, and I've done so many things already that I don't want to repeat, so to find something you haven't done is harder. I don't want to play a country singer again. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm a binge-watcher! "

" I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details. "

" I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque. "

" The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition. "

" Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell. "

" It's not seeing myself 40 feet tall on a movie screen - it's the work. That's what thrills me. "

" I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value. "

" 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. "

" There's something about Southern characters. "

" I just make films that attract me. "

" There have been several television movies, 'Carrie 2,' two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, 'Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that's not really the audience.' "

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

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

" I go where the good work is being done. "

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" When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought. "

" I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me. "