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"Being is like pretending."
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"Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain."
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"You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do."
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being is like pretending."
Being
"My father taught me how to substitute realities."
Father
"The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first."
Love
"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads."
Life
"I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical."
Sex
"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."
Work
"I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative."
Time
"I'll talk to myself out loud a lot."
Talk
"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."
People
"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."
Mother
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