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" When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough. "
Diane Lane
School
You
Enough
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" We live our whole lives, and in our dying moment, we have to ask ourselves, 'What did we really care about? What impact did we make on the world?' The older I get, the more I realize the answers have to do with how we affect and love the people around us. "
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" In five years, I had done 13 films, which I think broke Elvis's record. "
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" I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me. "
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" There's a voice inside children that knows right from wrong. I call it listening to your inner Jiminy Cricket. I tell my daughter, 'If you're thinking this is not the best idea, it probably isn't.' "
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" Some days I want to get the boob job, some days I want to get the eye lift. Then other days, I'm like, 'Absolutely not! Have some integrity!'... But it's all about what makes you happy. "
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" Because that's what intimacy is: It's a willingness to be vulnerable, a willingness to bite my tongue and a willingness to set an example of what I believe in. "
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" I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it. "
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" Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging. "
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" I'm not really attracted to that long-term commitment to one character over many years. "
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" All I know is it was incredible watching Robert Downey Jr. bring Chaplin to life. Talk about weight-lifting! "
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" It's always refreshing to step into another time. "
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Step
Time
" I was, I think, extremely lucky, because the minute I saw my face plastered on 'Time' magazine in the subway with my mother, I just said, 'Wow.' And it made 'Time' magazine come down to life-size scale. "
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Mother
Time
" The stage always terrified me. The live audience is just one thing I bewilderingly look back on and say, 'How did I ever participate in that?' "
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Say
Me
" I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel. "
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Want
Nothing
Down
" The industry's memory is quite short, it's true. "
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True
Short
" You have to realize, making movies is the weirdest thing you could ever do. It's a contrivance, but you're attempting to reach people's hearts in the dark, and there are so many factors that are out of your control. "
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Movies
" I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh. "
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Wish
Always
Laugh
" I believe that the female perspective is a very healing and circumspect one, and we have a right to equal voice. "
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" I like someone who's suffered from both sides. "
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Like
Someone
Both
" I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work. "
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Work
Know
Week
" I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world. "
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Something
Always
" The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition. "
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" I'm done saying 'I'm sorry I wasn't who you needed or wanted me to be' to everybody in my life. "
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Career
I Can
Control
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Attention
" I've heard stories of people, even celebrities that have gone online, pretended to be someone they weren't, and conducted a 5-year friendship via e-mail. Then, they got married because they really love each other from all that communication. "
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Friendship
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" I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes. "
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" I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter. "
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Person