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" The work gets more difficult as you get older. You learn more and you gather more experiences, there is deeper pain and higher highs. "
Gwyneth Paltrow
Difficult
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" I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, but half the reason that my life is good, has real, true value, is that he died. I would obviously rather have him alive, but he gave me so much in his death. "
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" If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish. "
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" I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely. "
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" It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can. "
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" I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year. "
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" I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor. "
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" I have a very highly developed sense of denial. "
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" I find the English amazing how they got over 7/7. There were no multiple memorials with people sobbing as they would have been in America. There, they are constantly scaring people, but at the same time, people think nothing of going to see a therapist. "
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" Women were real box office stars in the '40s, more so than men. People loved to see women's films. I think it was better then, except for the studio system. "
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" I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness. "
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Avoid
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" I try to remember, as I hear about friends getting engaged, that it's not about the ring and it's not about the wedding. It's a grave thing, getting married. And it's easy to get swept up in the wrong things. "
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" When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat. "
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Pass
" My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me. "
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Life
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" I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being? "
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Love
Great
" I put on the fat suit and went outside and walked around. I was really nervous about being found out, but nobody would even make eye contact with me. It really upset me. "
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Fat
" I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling. "
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" Creating a meal for my friends and family, sitting together, eating, laughing and talking - that is when I am so happy. Oh my God, if you could see how much food I make - I am the original Jewish mother. "
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Happy
God
" Taking care of yourself is being there for your kids, like how on a plane, they tell you to put on your oxygen mask first. "
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Mask
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" There's something that sort of weirds me out about actors who want to be rock stars, and the other way around too. "
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" I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back. "
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" I'll immediately gain, like, 5 pounds even just by thinking about cutting out dessert. It's a nightmare. I decided, for me, the healthiest thing was to eat what I want and just exercise. Some women can watch what they eat, but I just can't do that. "
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" I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college. "
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" I never thought that I'd be considered to have a good body. I was bony up top and kind of dumpy on the bottom. "
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Top
" I eat whatever I want. I like bread and cheese and wine, and that makes my life fun and enjoyable. "
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" Because I was newly pregnant, I was sick as a dog, yet I knew all my lines from a year before. "
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" In Britain, they have a lot of laws to protect you, and we enforce them very strongly so that our children can stay private figures, and the British press leave us alone, which is great. It means we can go on the Tube into the centre of London because it's quicker and more fun for the kids. We can do normal things. "
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" In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film. "
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" During the strict macrobiotic chapter of my life, I ate miso soup every day for breakfast and sometimes with dinner as well. "
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" I do 45 minutes of cardio five days a week, because I like to eat. I also try for 45 minutes of muscular structure work, which is toning, realigning and lengthening. If I'm prepping for something or I've been eating a lot of pie, I do two hours a day, six days a week for two weeks. "
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