"What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together"
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"Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you."
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"The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not."
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"Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself."
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"The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it."
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"We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are in fact here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives."
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"My worst quality is impatience."
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"If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it."
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"There is a painful difference between the expectation of an unpleasant event and its final certainty."
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"The insanity of consumption bothers me. Talk about the opiate of the masses. It ain't religion anymore. It's stuff."
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"Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap."
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"This morning, I went to wipe my hands on a tea towel, and while I was using it, it seemed like it felt a bit light. I unfolded it and realized my daughter had cut little bits out of it to make frocks for her dolls!"
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"I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two."
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"Without the ice, the earth will fall"
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"If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights."
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"We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power."
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"We belabour, I think, under a very heavy crust of consumerism really"
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"My husband is here and I'd like to thank him, for many things, but first of all for pointing out that I had a big hole in my frock and then that my nipples were pointing in different directions. It's good to have an expert there to help you with that sort of thing."
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"Once you're a mom, you've been split into two people. It's like Peter Pan and his shadow."
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"My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman."
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