"As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit."

Work, Months, Years

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"As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit."

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"You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul."

Mother, Soul

"You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect."

Food, Skin, Wine

"Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good."

Being, Childhood, Feeling, First

"It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else."

Life, Power, Journey, Living

"As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit."

Work, Months, Years

"I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I wins."

Awards, Victims

"If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger."

Years,

"I'm living every ten-year-old boy's fantasy. The other day, Chris and I had this big scene where we had to pull out our guns, and I was thinking, 'Here we are in New York City - a place where every actor wants to be - and we are literally playing cops and robbers. How great is that?'"

Actor, Day, Fantasy, Living

"I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected."

People,

"I have so much love that I didn't even know about."

Love,

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"That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man"."

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"The world system is employment."

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"Do not be weary to make money."

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"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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