"I don't think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little."
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"Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be."
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"It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people."
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"I think our fears find us and force us to confront them over and over again."
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"I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world."
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"I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation."
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"I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else."
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"Don’t think I’m going off to find myself though. I already know who I am."
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"Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever."
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"Steve Jobs has a great speech where he talks about how the wrong turns in his life truly set him on the path that he needed to be on. Anyway, what do I do? I bake. I'm pretty competitive about my chocolate chip banana bread. I don't think anyone can believe how good it is. It's really on another level."
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"There are so many scripts and they are fantastic. I think I would like to do something different, maybe something smaller."
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"When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not."
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"I can't help moving my face - reacting - when I watch a movie, because I'm really inhabiting a character. I know this is weird, but it demonstrates what I love about cinema: it allows you to live a different life, to have a different experience, to disappear for two hours. I think it's wonderful."
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"I think that might also be part of the life of a creative person - those sort of ups and downs and security and insecurity. It's just part of the lot in life when you're pushing yourself and hoping to always keep growing and expanding. It's emotionally tricky."
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"I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting."
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"I think as time goes on, I'm trying to get less fatalistic, because that's just one of those unhealthy, kind of dangerous head spaces to get in, of not being able to tolerate sustained positive energy."
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"Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that."
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"If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
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"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."
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"It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid."
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