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"Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time."
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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."

"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."

"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

"Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children."

"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."

"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me."

"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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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."

"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"

"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."

"How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation. I had known what it was to come back to Gateshead when a child after a long walk, to be scolded for looking cold or gloomy; and later, what it was to come back from church to Lowood, to long for a plenteous meal and a good fire, and to be unable to get either. Neither of these returnings was very pleasant or desirable: no magnet drew me to a given point, increasing in its strength of attraction the nearer I came. The return to Thornfield was yet to be tried."

"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
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