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" The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own. "
Sonya Walger
Mean
Me
Fate
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" I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed. "
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" I like playing interesting, complicated women. "
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" Oh, I am very old fashioned about my literature taste. I like Henry James. I like George Elliot. I like Dostoyevsky. I like the old people. I really do. I like people who write big, fat, juicy novels you can get completely lost in! "
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" You can't leave the house without a toy car if you've got a son. "
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" 'Lost' is an entity of its own. It's still such a culture touchstone that I think it'll be something people go back to for a long time, like 'Star Trek.' I'm just so amazed by the show's popularity. "
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" I was a West Hollywood and Laurel Canyon girl for years, and it was so central that I felt like we'd moved to Portland when we came to Malibu, but now I can't imagine living anywhere else. We have the best of all worlds, hilltop living, 15 minutes from town, with the beach at the bottom of the road. "
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" I'm the absolute opposite of a hoarder. "
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" I really like investigating the things that make us human. "
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" To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me. "
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" Any time you cast an actor, you don't just cast that actor; you cast all their other performances as well. "
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" I got married six weeks ago. It's just a sweet thing. I haven't got a better word for it. It's an enormous amount of sweetness. "
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" I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people. "
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" I have a dialogue coach who helps me out with some of the more tricky Chicago vowel sounds. "
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Chicago
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" You know, I just tend to do the scene that I'm given, really. If it really needs it, then I'll go to them and ask 'What's she talking about? What's she referring to?' But often they don't know, or they do know and they're not going to tell me, so I've learned just to work with what I'm given. "
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" I had all this other life happening, and 'Lost' was this sort of seasoning - but it was never the main course. It was just this thing that I would nip off and do, so to be recognized for 'Lost' all the time is amazing. "
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Never
Time
Off
" I felt very unstressed on my wedding day. I'm very grateful for that... spending the day on my own, being super quiet and happy and just puttering around doing my own thing. "
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" I always have Band-Aids, ideally ones with princesses on them, because they're the best. "
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" There's no point of equilibrium. I'm either at home or at work, but what I try to do is to give my whole heart to wherever I am. "
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" There's always a pencil in my bag. I put everything in pencil in my datebook. I live in L.A. - everyone's flaky. "
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" Minute by minute, you decide who you are and who you're likely to be. You make the choices hour by hour, just in the present. I don't believe there's some roadmap laid out that we're headed towards. "
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" Having a family has made a huge difference in the roles I take, so doing a show in L.A. is a huge factor. "
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" I think 'Lost' is like losing a friend or a relative or someone. You can't replace it with another one. "
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" I've been quite protected from the whole 'Lost' phenomenon because I'm not one of the core cast. So I haven't had to do the press junkets that they have. "
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" My husband calls me 'throwy-outy' - he's horrified at how easily I dispense with things. People I won't let go of, but things, mementos from shows, I'm not particularly attached to. "
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Things
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" We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride. "
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" I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs. "
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" This is the joke of me being a part of 'Lost': I haven't met three-quarters of that cast. "
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