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" Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters. "
Maya Hawke
Women
Men
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" Your whole childhood is just absent of choices. And then you become an adult, and every choice you make, you open some doors and close others. "
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You
Choices
" You want to put out good vibes for the viewers, even if so many stories that have to be told and that need to be told have a lot of darkness in them, because the world has a lot of darkness in it. "
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You
Good
" I want to tell stories that are true and that resonate and move people, that highlight both the tremendous beauty and ugliness available in the human experience. "
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People
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" It's difficult to always have to be contextualized within the careers of your parents, and it's difficult not to feel like you can stand alone, but hopefully I'll earn the ability to stand alone over time. "
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Alone
Feel
" I love Katharine Hepburn. I love Liesl in 'The Sound of Music.' I love Julie Andrews. I love Audrey Hepburn. "
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Love
Music
" Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else. "
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" The thing about acting that's unlike any other art form is that it's collaborative; directing and acting are a collaboration, and your acting won't succeed if the lighting design doesn't succeed or sets don't succeed. "
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Art
Design
" I haven't always known I wanted to act. I wanted to be a farmer, an English professor, or an archaeologist. "
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Farmer
Professor
" In my living room, I was always playing guitar and writing songs and singing them. My dad and I would always sing together - only for friends and family, but always since I was a little girl. "
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Family
Together
Singing
" I've been sitting at the grown-ups' table my whole life. "
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Life
Table
Sitting
" I really struggled, growing up, with reading and writing. I had a hard time to do that, but I was really passionate about storytelling and about books. "
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Hard
Writing
Growing Up
" I'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it's in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing. "
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Proud
Career
Complicated
" There are things that are hard about coming from a divorced family, but having two houses is not one of those things. "
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Two
Family
Hard
" I've never been interested in a career in modelling, I was interested in my independence. When I was in school, modelling was what I needed to reach independence without having to leave. "
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Independence
Career
Reach
" I'm not particularly interested in my phone. I'm interested in human contact. I think phones have created a certain social incapacity; it's made people socially deficient. "
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Human
Think
Phones
" I hate technology and cellphones. I hate having to have one all of the time. I don't tweet or buzz or bing or whatever! It's a conscious thing - I hate the way that it can take over young people's lives. "
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Time
Young
Technology
" I've become a little immune to the gazes of strangers because it's been a part of my life for so long. "
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My Life
Long
Become
" I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship. "
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Very
Rich
Love
" I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing. "
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Style
Steal
More
" The world of celebrity that comes with the world of art is not particularly interesting to me. "
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Me
Art
Celebrity
" I've always been kind of a voyeur. "
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Been
Voyeur
Kind
" I think valuing what your body can do over how your body looks is the No. 1 advice I would give to young women about how to have healthy body image. It's not, 'Do these pants fit?' It's 'Can I do a split?' "
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Think
Body
Healthy
" I think success is when the way you talk about who you want to be and what you want to do lines up with who you are and what you do. I guess, by that, I mean I think success is practicing what you preach. "
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Talk
Think
You
" Sometimes the world will tell you that you do what you do for a different reason than your reason. And if you let them convince you that that's your reason, it will become your reason, and you will lose track of yourself. "
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Lose
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You
" My parents are actors, and I'm the oldest of my siblings - I have three younger sisters and a brother who's my best friend. We're a close-knit, complicated family, but we spend a lot of time together, even though we live in different houses. We're a rambunctious gang! "
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Live
Best
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" If I wanted to do the same thing every day, I would have gone into a different profession. "
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Different
Day
Every Day
" I do care a lot about what I wear, but in a way that is about comfort and practicality, and I always want to look like me. "
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Comfort
Want
Me
" I was Jenny in 'Jenny and the School for Cats' when I was five years old. That was my first big break. Then I got to play the Artful Dodger in 'Oliver Twist,' and that was the most fun I've ever had. "
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Cats
Years
School
" I would recommend any young person who wants to be an actor to go and get some training. "
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Training
Some
" The truth is, I have made very few public appearances, and when I have, my parents have been very careful to allow me to have my own experience. "
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