"It sounds so trite, but my private life is mine."
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"People might find me attractive, but it's also my job to prove that I can be intelligent."
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"Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing."
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"I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn’t have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough."
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"Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before."
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"I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out."
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"We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting."
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"I did a lot of fast talking as a youth; I was pretty good at it. I was never talked into it - I was always the one doing the talking."
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"Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular."
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"I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from."
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"You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering."
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"I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series."
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"I was very sexual from a very young age."
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"I'm not quite as limber, but for my peers and my age group, I'm still top notch!"
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"Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone."
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