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" When I was a little kid, I used to spend a lot of time thinking about what I'd wish for if a magic fairy gave me three wishes. First, I wanted to be loved. Then, I wanted to be beautiful. And, finally, I'd wish for a million more wishes. "

Sissy Spacek

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" When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought. "

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" There's nothing like not washing your teeth or washing your face or brushing your teeth in the morning. "

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" I think my mother's family came on the Mayflower from England - D.A.R., you know. "

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" I don't like to do something just to prove I can do it. "

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" I used to play softball every summer back in Quitman. My two brothers demanded I be tough. There were certain girls they wouldn't let me invite over because they were too feminine and fragile. "

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" For a while, I just sang at a steakhouse. I would go from table to table and really just survived on tips. "

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" It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character. "

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" I think people in the north and the south and the east and the west, anywhere they come from, are just as interesting, and they're humans. They have the same realm of emotions that we all have. But I'm just more drawn to the Southern character and the different types, and Southern literature is so lyrical and so wonderful. "

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" In every movie, there's always some physical thing that triggers the character for me. In 'The Long Walk Home,' it was the girdle. Every time I'd put that girdle on, I'd feel my character wiggle to life. "

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" 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. "

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" I've always been a people-watcher, and as an actor, later, I just mined all those little details. "

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" I've been into exercise my whole life, been a runner and been into health and fitness always. "

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" New York gets under your skin, and I think once you've fallen in love with New York, you take that with you. I love New York. "

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" I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed like the right thing to do. I never felt like I left New York, though. If you've lived in a place and loved it, you never feel like you left it. "

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" I wanted to be Joni Mitchell. "

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" With my coloring, I'm nothing in black and white. I've seen my films sometimes on black-and-white TV. Disaster. "

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" My daughter is far more talented than me in the songwriting department - far more. "

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

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" There's something about Southern characters. "

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" I write about Texas, New York, California and Virginia, and they're all important places in my repertoire. "

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" For me, life is a bowl of cherries. "

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

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" You want to live your life and live it just as fully and as deeply as you can. That's your deep well of reserve. That's where you get all your - the fodder for your work. "

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" What's normal? I think I'm normal... Maybe I'm abnormal because I get such a thrill from real life, just real life, everyday things. "

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" I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease. "

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" 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. "

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" The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition. "

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