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" Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world. "
Julia Roberts
Joy
Women
World
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" It's increasingly rare for me to find things that challenge me as an actor because the challenge of my personal life, and how fulfilling I find it, is tough to compete with. "
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" My life at home gives me absolute joy. Having so much time there with the family has just been incredible. My life has changed and I work less, but I was never really one to work too much. "
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Family
Home
" I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up. "
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" Sally Field taught me to do needlepoint on 'Steel Magnolias,' and a standby painter on 'Pelican Brief' taught me to knit. I'm pretty good at it now! "
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Pretty
Steel
Field
" The body is a great machine, and it knows how to take care of itself. I think more often than not the things we do to our skin or our bodies can hold it back from doing its proper job. "
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Think
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Care
" My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time. "
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Love
Mom
Time
" Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag. "
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Show
Person
Laugh
" Everything I've done has had purpose and has been passionate and has been executed in the best way that I knew how. Maybe that's not the perfect way. Maybe that's not the easiest way. But it's the best way I knew how to do it. "
Julia Roberts
Purpose
Perfect
Passionate
" I think that I am a deeply optimistic person. "
Julia Roberts
I Think
Optimistic
Think
" Every actor wants to win an Oscar, full stop. It doesn't mean you try to design things around how to accomplish that because that's impossible. "
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Win
You
Accomplish
" When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. "
Julia Roberts
Child
Crush
Choose
" The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day. "
Julia Roberts
Day
You
Motivation
" I never really did years of movie-after-movie-after-movie but when you've got three toddlers in the house you're performing all day long, anyway, with puppet shows and stories - I act around the clock. "
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Long
House
Day
" I was lucky that I made a few movies in a row that people really responded to - not me, particularly, but the films as a whole were appreciated. "
Julia Roberts
Me
Lucky
Movies
" That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. "
Julia Roberts
People
Love
Good
" It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates. "
Julia Roberts
Live
See
Women
" Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age. "
Julia Roberts
You
Quality
Love
" I enjoy hats. And when one has filthy hair, that is a good accessory. "
Julia Roberts
Good
Hair
Hats
" I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie. "
Julia Roberts
Breakfast
Lunch
Pride
" I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. "
Julia Roberts
Choose
Time
Instinct
" I tried Botox one time and was permanently surprised for a couple of months. It was not a cute look for me. My feeling is, I have three children who should know what emotion I'm feeling at the exact moment I'm feeling it... that is critical. "
Julia Roberts
Know
Children
Cute
" I love to cook, and I love to have all my family around the dinner table. "
Julia Roberts
Cook
Dinner Table
Family
" Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. "
Julia Roberts
Just
Above
Dictionary
" I'm an utterly average, total geek. "
Julia Roberts
Utterly
Average
Geek
" The kind of energy I attract is very calm. "
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Energy
Very
Kind
" Love is not love, without a violin playing goat. "
Julia Roberts
Love Is
Without
Violin
" My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.' "
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You
Car
House
" I definitely think some of my older female peer group are deeply beautiful women. They have this thing that radiates from them. "
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Think
Women
Beautiful
" I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature. So I think that was probably my most valued characteristic as a teenager. "
Julia Roberts
Said
Literature
Enough
" Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that! "
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Seeing
You
Feeling