"Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me."
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"Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children."
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"It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead."
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"I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject."
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"We don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there."
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"Yeah, I did need a lot of breath [to play Margaret Thatcher]. I needed much more breath than I have, after all of my expensive drama school training. I couldn't keep up with her."
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"While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world."
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"I didn't go to Catholic school but I had a tough teacher, a tough math teacher.I remember everything that guy taught me. I really do."
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"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."
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"America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances."
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"I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school."
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"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."
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"There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material."
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"Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area."
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"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other."
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"It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not."
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"If you have a brain, you are obliged to use it."
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"For me, clothes are kind of a character. They're more interesting in those terms."
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