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"I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends."
Friendship

"I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath."
Woman

"I really enjoy acting. At home I can't even finish a sentence, and here I am reading these wonderful lines. I think it must be every housewife's dream, to be an actress part-time."
Home

"Acting's not my whole life. My children definitely come first."
Life

"I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need."
Movies

"Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion."
Movies

"I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise."
Movies

"I think it is important to say that though, of course, it is wonderful to have children, it is a disservice to others not to also say how hard it is to do it alone."
Children

"Look, I know he's been married three times before. I accept it, but I don't want it driving up the driveway."
Driving

"I limited myself to introduce a change in my way of thinking and the way I see things. When I look at my child, I do it in a different way then when I'm contemplating a chair. They are different... the child is a living being, and the chair is an object."
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"You've got to be closer to the edge than ever to win. That means sometimes you go over the edge, and I don't mean driving, either."
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"I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on."
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Personal Development

"Mind your driving."
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"I quit driving, I'm not retired."
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"With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist."
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"Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house."
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"When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis."
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"You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.'"
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"I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge."
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"Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot."
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