"I have great respect for Sean Penn. It's like most relationships that fail. It's not one thing, it's many thing that go on over a period of time."
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"Sexism - you can't be sexy and intelligent. It's not allowed."
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"I'm not crazy about how sort of homogenized pop music become. It used to be much more diverse. Maybe it's just what's played on the radio sounds very much the same."
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"I've been practicing yoga very seriously for a little over a year and I believe that helped my voice and affected my singing."
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"I believe what I practice has to do with something deeper than religion, that it embodies all religions, including Judaism. And Christianity. And Islam."
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"When you make a movie, it's just a huge bureaucracy because movies cost so much money. Millions of people get involved, and pretty soon the creative idea gets tramped on and watered down or filtered through a huge system."
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"When I discovered that I could write music, it felt like the most natural way for me to connect with people and tell my stories. I've always thought of that as what I do: I tell stories."
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"Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with."
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"I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore."
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"I was thinking about dying the other day the death thought came while I was sitting on the toilet peeing - that's where I have my most contemplative thoughts."
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"I think the silence would be good with me, and not interacting with people would be okay. But not being able to move outside of the space would be hard. Not being able to walk around - the stillness of my body, physically - that would be the challenge."
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"A lot of people saw Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland as persecuted and tragic and vulnerable, and I think a lot of gay men feel that way because of their particular predicament in society and not being accepted completely."
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"Children always think they did something wrong when their parents disappear."
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"I like to be provocative."
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"No Separation! We all bleed the same color! #ceasefire #peaceinthemiddleeast #livingforlove"
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"I hadn't been onstage in a while. The last time was pre-children. And before I went on [at Roseland], my kids were backstage, and I thought, This isn't how I usually do it. I've got kids, and I'm thinking, This is weird. It's weird juggling children on your knee while you're in your rhinestone outfit. And I'm thinking, Okay, I'm gonna go out and do a show and I'm gonna be Superwoman! But I'm not really, `cause I'm a mom. It's all very strange."
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"I always wished that I could find someone as beautiful as you, but in the process I forgot that I was special too."
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"Acknowledge World Aids Day! Do what you can to help save lives! #livingforlove"
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"I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love."
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"Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing."
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