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" Ultimately, you have to work for your own enlightenment - for smarts - or it gets boring. "

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" Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business. "

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" The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that. "

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" Texas is so big, and the place where I grew up was so little, and I was such a little thing growing up in the middle of it. I had two choices: I could either spend my life feeling insignificant, or I could look on the life I lived as a microcosm of the universe. "

" One day, it just dawned on me that I'm from Texas, and that's what I am. "

" Nature is my church. The wind in the trees and the bugs and the frogs. All those things are comfort to me. "

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" I swore to my parents that no one would ever be able to buy me. "

" I need to fill myself up with real life. That's kind of the well I draw from. "

" I've not had a mean life. "

" The important thing is to be part of a good project with good, talented people. "

" I loved growing up in a little town. I loved knowing people. I loved going to the store and running into people. I loved going into the store and having forgotten my bag, saying, 'Charge it, put it on my bill.' I loved going to the gas station and saying, 'Pete, fill it up.' I loved that continuity of life. "

" I'm not paralyzed with fear, but I realize it is important to live as if there's no tomorrow, always trying to maintain your integrity and have no regrets. "

" My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth. "

" When I lived in New York City, I loved it so much. But every six months, I had to go home to Texas to remember who I was. Get filled back up. "

" Music is my thing. In fact, that's what I wanted to do. I thought of myself as a musician. I had never thought about acting. "

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