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" My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport one day, she took out a letter that her therapist wrote, and she read it to me. She and her therapists wrote a letter breaking up with me together. "

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Humanity

Him

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Mind

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" If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments. "

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Child

Think

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" I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware. "

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Feel

People

" It seems like a really fun way to make a living, but I'm truly terrible at acting. "

" I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme. "