"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."

Being, Feeling, Opinion

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"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."

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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."

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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it."

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"A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it."

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"Having an education is invaluable."

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"I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene."

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"I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made."

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"On a film, I was always acting. I was either changing my clothes really quickly and wiping off the lipstick and putting on the other lipstick and then working constantly, constantly."

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"I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact."

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