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"Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."

"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."

"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."

"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."

"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is."


"When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort."


"Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart."


"There are two types of people in the world: people who are passionate about things, and people who've had their passion punched, beaten, or whatever out of them."


"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."
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