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- I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I…
- I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for…
- Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
- Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.
- I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
- I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I overdid it.
- Growing up in New York with artist parents - a very liberal environment, where we were always encouraged to challenge the status quo - I…
- I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on…
- I guess I stopped acting when I was 18 and didn't pick it up again until I was 21. That wasn't the plan, though. When…
- I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong