"Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst."
"I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job. It just becomes factory work and I get really frustrated."
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Source: American Ball: 'Beauty' screenwriter mining his past by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. October 08, 1999.
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