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"I find Hollywood really toxic."
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"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
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"I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star."
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"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
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"My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that."
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"I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit."
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"Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department."
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"I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned."
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"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract."
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"How did I get to Hollywood? By train."
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"Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult."
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"People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried."
People

"I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned."
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"Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises."
Funny

"You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you."
Work

"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information."
Nature

"There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh."
Love

"Every time I hear, Cut. Print, something cold and electrical goes off in my head, because I'm never going to change that film."
Change

"Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them."
Power

"My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question."
Faith
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